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After a stint in Paris at the OECD, Jorge Eduardo Correa Cervera has moved back to Mexico, where he is now central administrator at the national Tax Administration Service (SAT). Matthew Gilleard speaks to the man who has traded coq au vin and camembert for fajitas and frijoles.

Carlos Ayub from Deloitte Brazil explore Brazil’s complex transfer pricing environment, which has grown even more burdensome in light of tax technology changes brought in to deal with Big Data.

Rafael Sayagues, Alexandre Barbellion and Isabel Chiri of EY explore the growing influence of global tax trends on countries in the Central American region, assessing whether harmonisation is making taxpayers’ lives easier or harder.

Deloitte’s Simón Somohano and Hernán Katz look at the latest developments stemming from the OECD-led BEPS project and analyse specifically how taxpayers in Mexico are likely to be affected.

The past three years have seen significant changes to the Colombian tax framework, generally constituting a convergence with international tax concepts. Ximena Zuluaga and Luis Orlando Sánchez, of EY, explore the changes introduced by the 2012 tax reform and associated regulations released at the end of 2013 and assess the scope for further reform measures.

Advisers and taxpayers have voiced their concerns about the questions which still remain unanswered in the BEPS disclosure documents at TPWeek and International Tax Review’s 14th Global Transfer Pricing Forum in Washington, DC.

Bob Stack, deputy assistant secretary (international tax affairs), US Department of Treasury, has spoken publicly in the wake of last week’s BEPS document releases.

Bob Stack, deputy assistant secretary (international tax affairs), US Department of Treasury, has spoken out against other countries’ use of patent box regimes in a speech following the BEPS document releases last week.

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