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New Zealand is set to become the next country to implement a distance selling regime for B2C sales, charging companies GST on sales to its residents, after the government released a discussion draft on proposed changes.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on August 3, signed two new APAs with multinational companies (MNC). A total of 14 APAs have now been signed between the Indian government and MNCs, but there remains a backlog of more than 500 applications.

Richard Sciacca has joined Bates White Economic Consulting as partner in the transfer pricing and tax practice.

Mark Lindley, director of tax at the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), provides an overview of tourism taxation in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), looking at levies in countries across the region and assessing the extent to which such levies restrain the sector.

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In the first of a series of updates on intangibles valuation and intellectual property (IP) assets, Philip de Homont, principal at NERA Frankfurt, and Alexander Voegele, chairman of the firm’s advisory board, look at issues related to multiple economic ownership of intangibles.

Ricardo Rendón of Chevez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cia. provides a commentary on the most important challenges multinational enterprises (MNEs) are facing in Mexico. Taxpayers performing transactions with foreign related parties, in particular, should take note.

After spending 15 years in-house, Ben Henton last month joined BDO as a transfer pricing director. He returns to the UK from Asia after four years working at HSBC and DBS Bank in Hong Kong and Singapore. Here, he addresses operational risk challenges in transfer pricing (TP) from an in-house perspective, going beyond technical TP legislation and guidelines.

A turbulent year for the energy sector has seen oil prices decreasing by more than half from June 2014 to the beginning of 2015 and brent crude oil dipping below $50 a barrel for the first time since May 2009. This volatility has caused longer term, widespread repercussions across the industry. Jimmie van der Zwaan from Taxand Netherlands looks at some of the consequences impacting the sector, including an increase in M&A activity, tax concessions instigated by governments and major oil companies announcing ravaged profits - and this is before considering the gathering momentum of the OECD's initiatives to tackle base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) in international tax planning.