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The 11 EU member states looking to adopt a financial transaction tax (FTT) have discussed proposals for a narrower version of the tax to get it past stalled negotiations.

Talk about having a lot to deal with. If one finance minister was at the centre of most of the controversial tax issues in 2013, mainly to do with the exchange of tax information, it was Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf of Switzerland.

The Dutch Ministry of Finance has announced that the Netherlands and Curacao have agreed the text of a new bilateral tax arrangement designed to avoid double taxation. The agreement could create new tax planning opportunities.

Baker & McKenzie has reinforced its Asia Pacific Tax practice group with the key hire of a leading transfer pricing practitioner, Michael Nixon. Nixon joins the Singapore member firm, Baker & McKenzie . Wong & Leow, from EY as transfer pricing consultant focused on work across the region.

Olaf van der Donk is joining Clifford Chance on January 1 2014 as a senior adviser in its tax department in Amsterdam.

Questions about what the concept of the enhanced relationship between taxpayers, officials and advisers should look like in developing countries, whether the idea would encourage voluntary compliance by taxpayers and what steps should be taken to enhance such a relationship, were raised during a panel discussion at the Foundation for International Taxation’s annual conference in Mumbai on December 6.

Delivering an address on the morality versus legality debate at the Foundation for International Taxation’s December 5-7 conference in Mumbai, former Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia stated that in the Indian context, the discernible principles of law should prevail and not morality in a general sense.

The UK has come third in a poll of countries that are best-placed to capitalise on a boost in international trade.

Ropes & Gray has hired Brenda Coleman as a tax partner in their London office.