Past and present tax officials from Asia and the US, speaking on the first day of International Tax Review's Asia Tax Forum in Singapore, painted a picture of compliance in their jurisdictions where in some areas efforts are being radically restructured, such as the reorganisation of the US mutual agreement procedure and advance pricing agreement (APA) programmes, and in others change is more gradual.
The executive director of the leading campaign organisation for tax justice believes the world must make more progress on making automatic exchange of information (EoI) between tax authorities the international standard in the fight against tax evasion.
Companies such as Sony, AstraZeneca, Rank and E.ON Energy Trading have been nominated for the in-house awards at International Tax Review's European Tax Awards.
The trade body for the UK’s asset management industry has called on the US to delay the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
