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UK tax code dwarfs literary texts The past month has seen some intense parliamentary scrutiny of the UK revenue authorities and, by extension, the British tax system, and one interesting fact Tax Relief pulled out is that the country's tax code is more than 17,000 pages long. If you were to add the total page-count of the Bible, the Qur'an and the Bhagavad Gita – sacred texts of the world's three largest religions – you would have less than a fifth of the pages of the UK's tax legislation. To account for secularism, throw in War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and all seven Harry Potter books by Joanne Rowling and you'd still only be around half way there.

Dr Thomas Schänzle

Giuliano Foglia

"Given the positive vibes generated by the 'Make in India' campaign, we must seize the moment and use tax policies to encourage investments into the manufacturing sector."

Erik Hultman

Ferdinando Mercuri

Lionel Messi and his father spent much of the past year embroiled in a tax dispute with the Spanish authorities, and the attacker has now admitted the fiscal furore was a distraction which contributed to his dip in form on the pitch.

The oil industry has been questioned several times by the Brazilian tax authorities regarding agreements covering oil and natural gas exploitation services, including the prospection and concurrent charter of offshore platforms.

Eighty five jurisdictions are now signatories to the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Assistance in Tax Matters, after the Seychelles became the latest to do so today.

Matthew Cridland Australia was focussed on state and federal politics in early February, including an upset election result in Queensland. Notwithstanding these distractions, tax developments still continued apace. The Federal Court provided a detailed judgment regarding the tax promoter penalty provisions in FCT v Arnold (No 2). The court imposed penalties of $1.5 million in respect of a pharmaceuticals donations scheme.