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Serge Gloutnay has joined Gowlings – Taxand Canada as a partner in its Montréal office.

PwC US has hired an adviser with 10 years experience at the IRS and the Treasury Department as a principal in its international tax services practice.

William Arrenberg Herbert Smith has appointed William Arrenberg as a partner in its London tax team.

Nigel Doran Hilary Barclay Dan Pipe Nigel Doran rejoined Macfarlanes' tax and structuring group on May 14.

Alan Kornstein Alan Kornstein has joined McCarter & English's Newark office, New Jersey, as a partner in the tax and employee benefits group. His focus will be on tax planning and tax disputes.

Income tax treaties can provide significant protections for European investors and businesses in the US. As Congress seeks to close tax loopholes, to generate additional revenue, users of US tax treaties may face even tighter anti-treaty-shopping rules, warn Alfred Groff, Kristen Garry and Nathan Tasso, of Shearman & Sterling.

Europe is rarely as united on tax policy as the Commission would like it to be, but few issues are more divisive than the financial transaction tax (FTT). Salman Shaheen assesses the prospects of an EU-wide FTT, what it will mean for taxpayers and whether it remains the best option for making the financial sector pay for its role in the economic chaos.

Peter Dachs South Africa''s Supreme Court of Appeal last month released the ruling in its first ever international tax case.

Marta Szafarowska Hardly a year has elapsed since the Polish VAT Act was subject to significant amendments in January 2011, April 2011 and then again in July 2011. Taxpayers have to expect further significant modifications because the Ministry of Finance recently announced new draft legislation that, if introduced, would dramatically change some of the VAT rules that had applied since the very beginning of VAT in Poland back in 1993. The rules governing the tax point will change completely, to name just the most important thing, seriously affecting the reporting systems applied by the taxpayers.

Eylem Philippou