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It is no secret that the Greek tax authorities are not exactly up to scratch. Inefficient tax collection and a lack of knowledge in specialist areas such as transfer pricing are just two of the problems preventing the government raising the tax revenue it so badly needs.

Costa Rica has become the first Central American country to sign the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.

In an exclusive interview, Carsten Ibsen, head of group tax at Danske Bank, explains why he believes the financial sector is not undertaxed, why the European Commission’s proposal for a financial transactions tax (FTT) is a bad idea and why Denmark’s largest bank is not going to become a tax exile.

A report from PwC assessing the total tax contribution of the Hundred Group – which consists of the finance directors of the UK’s biggest companies – shows that such companies contributed £67.7 billion ($108 billion) to the government in taxes for the year ending March 2011, but news such as the unveiling of avoidance schemes used by Barclays bank uncovers the fact that this could, or even should, be higher.

Companies operating in Bulgaria face compliance challenges and possible penalties after an amendment to the application of the country’s VAT laws.

Egypt is looking to alter its indirect tax system by replacing the sales tax with a VAT, on the instruction of the IMF.

The Spanish Supreme Court has made a decision on permanent establishment which not only contrasts with that of France’s Zimmer case and Norway’s Dell case but means taxpayers should re-examine structures where a Spanish company performs activities for non-resident related entities under contract.

The worldwide drive against the use of tax havens and opaque banking systems to evade taxation, led by the OECD, has manifested itself in many forms. Andrew Watt, tax investigations consultant, analyses the latest of these forms.

The Supreme Court of Canada met in January to hear the Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) appeal and Glaxo­Smith­Kline's (GSK) response in a case about whether the taxpayer paid too much for active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) from a Swiss associated enterprise.