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Tom Seymour The tax landscape in Australia has recently been shaped by significant debate concerning the effectiveness of the current general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR) and whether there is a need to significantly increase the scope and breadth of the operation of the rules. To this end, on November 16 2012, the Australian government released draft provisions which propose to rewrite aspects of GAAR, in particular the provisions dealing with the existence of a tax benefit, which is a critical threshold issue before the GAAR rules take effect.

Joanne Hodge has rejoined New Zealand's Bell Gully as a tax partner. She advises public and private companies and financial institutions on all aspects of corporate tax, including transactional work.

Neil Sidorak is joining Jenne, a value-added distributor of IP telephony, audio and video conferencing, unified communications, data networking and security and surveillance products, in Avon, Ohio as its controller, making him responsible for the company's financial and tax reporting. In a 16-year career at Maloney + Novotny, a Cleveland accounting firm, Sidorak was responsible for the supervision, review and tax planning of about 65 tax engagements, including corporate, partnership, personal, state and local, and benefit plan returns.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired Jon Hanifan to lead its European hedge fund tax advisory team.

Tax litigation and controversy specialist Steven Dixon has been elected as a new member in Miller & Chevalier's Washington, DC office.

Tax heads of multinational companies say the UK Supreme Court's decision in the Prudential case, which said legal advice privilege (LAP) only protects communications between taxpayers and lawyers, will not make them choose lawyers above accountants for tax legal advice.

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Recent headlines might lead you to think that the only thing that interests multinational business is dodging taxes, and the only thing that interests governments is maximising the tax yield. The perception that low and middle income individuals are facing increasing taxes at a time when big multinationals are not contributing their fair share has become a political problem now identified by the G20.

Almost everyone agrees the two greatest economic problems facing the US are the growing and unsustainable federal deficit and persistently high unemployment and underemployment. So it is surprising to a long-time tax practitioner that the two leading proposals for corporate tax reform in the US – lowering the corporate tax rate through base-broadening and adopting a territorial tax system – are almost certain to make both problems worse. Jim Ditkoff, senior vice president, finance & tax at the Danaher Corporation, explains why.

If a pilot programme goes as planned, Russian taxpayers will have a new way of engaging with the tax authorities, explains Alexandra Lobova of Ernst & Young