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Field Fisher Waterhouse has a new contentious tax partner in London.

BMR Advisors-Taxand has taken its number of partners to 27 with the promotion of Sriram Seshadri and Abhishek Jain.

Ashurst promoted Nicholas Gardner to partner in the London office of its tax team, effective from May 1 2012.

The Canadian Supreme Court's (SCC) decision in the St Michael Trust Corp (St Michael) case will impact taxpayers with existing trust structures both in Canada and abroad.

The German parliament has made the changes that taxpayers need to adhere to as soon as possible

Hiring the right external advisers can be one of the most difficult jobs for a tax department.

Transfer pricing is now a prominent and global economic consideration for governments, taxpayers and the societies in which they operate. Considering this there is an increasing number of official global organisations, NGOs, individuals, governments and companies working to promote its development and set practical guidelines for others to follow. Sophie Ashley finds out who, or what, international transfer pricing professionals think are the 2012 leading forces in global transfer pricing.

The German Ministry of Finance published a draft Bill of the Annual Tax Act for 2013. The publication, dated March 5 2012, will implement several EU as well as OECD regulations into the German Tax Law. Oliver Wehnert and Ivo Tankov of Ernst & Young explain what these changes mean for taxpayers and their transfer pricing operations.

Canada’s Federal budget in March 2012 included changes to the transfer pricing rules. Matthew Wall, a transfer pricing expert at MDW Consulting, and Susan Robins, an international tax lawyer at Robins Tax Law, explain the benefits for the tax authority and certain concerns for taxpayers and their advisers. Though required reading for Canadians, these changes should also interest other countries particularly if they have a tax treaty with Canada or if they have issues that might be corrected by making similar changes.

In June 2011 the German parliament decided to significantly limit the useful life of German nuclear power plants. Stefan Schultes-Schnitzlein and Michael Dettmeier of Hogan Lovells explain peculiarities of German taxation of wind farms in offshore sites within the German exclusive economic zones.