John Pipski, who has just been elected to the board of Allegheny Technologies, is a financial and tax accountant with more than 40 years experience of advising companies in the manufacturing and mining industries.
Indirect tax specialists from India and around the world have urged the government in Delhi to get the design of its dual GST system correct before thinking about introducing it.
The head of the Internal Revenue Service in the US has said his organisation wants to improve large taxpayer compliance and so is committed to cutting the amount of time and resources it takes to resolve issues between it and corporations.
The UK Treasury will publish an update on controlled-foreign company (CFC) reform on December 6, the same day as the draft clauses of Finance Bill 2012.
In a Written Answer to Parliament in London on November 15, David Gauke, a UK Treasury minister, has revealed that almost 500 direct tax avoidance schemes have been disclosed to the UK tax authorities since the end of April 2008.
