The arrival of a team from Brazilian rival Costa Tavares Paes Advogados brings SiqueiraCastro’s tax headcount to seven partners and 30 associates
CSR initiatives can sometimes venture into virtue signalling, but Ryan’s tax literacy event for schoolchildren was a genuine and necessary endeavour
Grant Thornton advanced plans to integrate its Australian firm into its US arm, as tax developments spanned law firm hires, aviation levies and digital services taxes
A new focus on early intervention and increased AI use is transforming how tax authorities are approaching TP audits, though capacity-constrained jurisdictions risk falling behind
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Sponsored by Crowe Valente/Valente Associati GEB PartnersFederico Vincenti and Carola Valente Della Rovere of Valente Associati GEB Partners/Crowe examine a recent decision concerning the transfer pricing treatment of non-remunerated intra-group guarantees, focusing on economic substance, legal form, and group-level business justifications -
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Facebook has announced it will adopt a local selling model and pay tax in the countries where its profits are made, as opposed to redirecting its revenue through its international headquarters in Dublin.
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The Brazilian National Congress approved a protocol on October 5 2017 that amends the double tax agreement (DTA) between Brazil and Norway in order to improve the exchange of information between the competent authorities of both contracting states.
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Technology companies may feel targeted by the UK's budget, which introduced measures that will hit companies including Amazon, eBay, Google, Facebook and Twitter, but there were also some sweeteners to encourage post-Brexit economic prosperity.
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The EU maintains that the blacklist is an opportunity to develop a dialogue with uncooperative jurisdictions to facilitate change. Let's see if that happens The EU Council has listed 17 jurisdictions as non-cooperative for tax purposes in its latest blacklist, and also released a grey list of 47 countries, but it has played it safe by excluding known tax havens.
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The changes are expected to improve the state of affairs for taxpayers and tax professionals The French government has released a second corrective finance bill for 2017, which contains new provisions for cross-border mergers in response to a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in March 2017 and complementing Emmanuel Macron's pro-business agenda.
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See who has done the tax work on this month’s biggest deals
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"Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance … and so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life," Mufasa once told his young cub in The Lion King.
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Peter Nias, barrister and Centre of Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) panel mediator of Pump Court Tax Chambers in the UK, considers whether the arbitration provisions in the OECD’s Multilateral Instrument (MLI) and Action 14 proposals offer the only option for dispute resolution for all parties.
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A suite of mutually reinforcing measures with an overall focus on resolution at the earliest point in time is the ultimate goal for taxpayers and tax authorities. Achim Pross, Sandra Knaepen and Mark Johnson of the OECD describe the organisation’s comprehensive dispute resolution agenda, both within and beyond the BEPS project.
