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DLA Piper hires Lloyds’ head of operational and employee taxes

Jayne Newton Jayne Newton has been appointed as tax investigations director at DLA Piper, within the firm's litigation and regulatory group. She makes the move from Lloyds Banking Group, where she was head of operational and employee taxes, having been with the company for 21 years.

September 30 2012

Indian Chief Justice Kapadia’s successor announced

Shri Justice Altamas Kabir will take over as Chief Justice of India on September 29 following the departure of Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia.

September 30 2012

Serbia: Serbian VAT and corporate income tax rates to increase

Boris Lazic and Panayiotis Diallinas, Eurofast Taxand The Finance and Commerce Minister of Serbia, Mladjan Dinkic, has announced the increase of the VAT and corporate income tax (CIT) rates in Serbia as part of measures designed to increase the revenue of the Government and drive Serbia out of the financial crisis.

September 30 2012

Former Taxand UK members launch consultancy for voluntary disclosures

Andrew Watt Rebecca Busfield The former leaders of Taxand UK's tax investigation team have established a new consultancy service, Watt Busfield Tax Investigations, to help UK taxpayers take full advantage of voluntary disclosure opportunities provided by HMRC. Andrew Watt and Rebecca Busfield will lead the practice, which aims to assist taxpayers in making voluntary disclosures, or full disclosures when they have already been challenged by HMRC, in a bid to avoid tax litigation.

September 30 2012

Norway: Carried interest earned by private equity management reclassified as employment income

Rolf Saastad and Wensing Li, Deloitte Carried interest is a profit sharing that the investment managers of private equity funds will earn if the fund is successful. Carried interest is normally 20% of any return to investors of more than 8% a year.

September 30 2012

Deloitte adds director in Cardiff

Deloitte has added to its team in Wales by hiring Rhianne Cox as a director in its tax service line. She will be based in Cardiff.

September 30 2012

Spain: The so-called Spanish "tax amnesty" regime

José Manuel Vázquez and Juan Luís Zayas, Garrigues This year Spain has seen new legislation bringing in a new voluntary tax disclosure programme, which was completed with the approval of the Special Tax Return Form and the setting out of other features.

September 30 2012

Michael Meacher speaks for the voiceless on tax justice

Michael Meacher, former UK Minister of State for the Environment under Tony Blair, stepped up the fight against tax avoidance in the House of Commons last month with his general anti-tax avoidance principle (GATAP) Bill. Salman Shaheen talks to the Labour Member of Parliament about his campaign and how it is gaining momentum.

September 30 2012

Demand mounts for US carbon tax

A new paper from the MIT Global Change Institute, a Bill before Congress and a Bloomberg editorial have all increased demand for a carbon tax in the US.

Salman Shaheen, September 30 2012

The future of Israeli indirect taxation

Israel has introduced a number of indirect tax changes recently. Tal Hamdi of Herzog Fox & Neeman looks at where they are going.

September 30 2012

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