How companies create tax regimes in emerging countries Multinational companies, especially in the energy and extractive industries, are playing a significant role in structuring the tax systems in emerging countries. Joanna Faith discovered how businesses balance their commercial objectives with a wider role in helping with governments
New UK Chancellor starts by listening in first budget Following on from their Budget web seminar, Chris Sanger and Patrick Stevens of Ernst & Young discuss the measures announced in the 2008 UK Budget and their likely impact
Tax relief A monthly commentary on the notable facts, figures and goings-on in the tax world, so called to give you a gentle exit from International Tax Review each month
US hi-tech taxation needs addressing Hillary Clinton recently announced an agenda that would bring significant tax incentives for the hi-tech industry to in-source work and create new jobs in the US, Catherine Snowdon finds out why the tax treatment of US hi-tech companies has become such an area of focus
Firms reach the heights in tax planning The biggest professional services firms are near or at the top of International Tax Review's first poll of the world's leading planning practices. And law firms and smaller consultancies are also competing to offer bespoke tax structuring, transfer pricing and indirect tax advice
US Senate Finance chief plots course to tax reform Americas correspondent Catherine Snowdon examines the plans for tax reform in the US Senate
Tackling global concerns Werner Stuffer argues that Germany's recent tax reform is a missed opportunity. Joanna Faith spoke to him about the challenges he faces in dealing with revenue authorities as Siemens' vice president of international tax
Voluntary disclosure becomes a necessity Scott Michel of tax boutique Caplin & Drysdale argues that companies and tax professionals should seriously consider the Internal Revenue Service's voluntary disclosure programme
Managing a company's effective tax rate Adrian Windsor and Jeremy Curd, of PricewaterhouseCoopers in the UK, discuss the value of managing a company's effective tax rate
Fay arrives to strengthen AIG's tax force AIG turned to private practice when it needed someone to run its tax department in Asia. Tony Fay came to the role in awe of the size of the company and the issues he and his team have to deal with throughout the region. Ralph Cunningham spoke to him in Hong Kong about how he intends to embed tax as a key part of the company.
New prosecutor steps in to take on evasion Nathan Hochman has just become the government's chief prosecutor of the US tax code. He tells Catherine Snowdon about his strategy for convicting taxpayers who don't abide by the rules
