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Melissa Tatton has become the director of the Large Business Service at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in the UK. She replaces Melanie Dawes, who has joined the Cabinet Office as head of the Economics and Domestic Affairs Secretariat. Tatton was formerly HMRC's deputy director for international business, with responsibility for transfer pricing.

Connecticut has become the latest US state to put pressure on online retailer Amazon over the payment of sales taxes.

A recent decision on importation from the Brazilian administrative courts reopened a transfer pricing question that appeared to be definitively settled in favour of the Brazilian Federal Revenue (RFB). Gil Mendes, and Daniel Perin, of Ernst & Young analyse how a taxpayer became the first to prevail over the authorities on the issue.

HM Revenue & Customs has updated the guidance in its international manual for taxpayers, including changes to the transfer pricing provisions.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is inviting public comment on its decision to reconsider its approach to post-import value adjustments.

Werner Stuffer has joined Ernst & Young Terco in Brazil as head of the transfer pricing practice and European inbound business. He was formerly at PwC in Germany and before that worked for Siemens for more than 12 years, where he finished as vice-president, international tax.

The Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development’s annual conference in Paris discussed the problems of trade mispricing, or transfer pricing abuse, and looked at how to combat it.

Jeroen Bijl of PwC takes a look at the VAT changes in the Dutch Tax Package 2012

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $3.9 billion The Carlyle Group; Hellman & Friedman Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton Acquisition $1.33 billion Minmetals Resources Ltd Anvil Mining Ltd Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Acquisition $775 million Toyo Seikan Kaisha Ltd Stolle Machinery Company (GSO Capital Partners LP) Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, William Curran Kirkland & Ellis Acquisition $725 million Iochpe Holdings Hayes Lemmerz International Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom - Andre LeDuc Acquisition $550 million Sonoco Products Company Tegrant Corporation (Metalmark Capital) Davis Polk & Wardwell - Kathleen Ferrell Recapitalisation investment $175 million Thomas H Lee Partners First Bancorp Davis Polk & Wardwell; Weil Gotshal & Manges K&L Gates Acquisition Undisclosed Synopsys Inc Extreme DA Corporation Fenwick & West - Adam Halpern, Natalie Pardo de Zela Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Acquisition financing $1.23 billion Providence Equity Partners (acquiring Blackboard) Bank of America, NA; Deutsche Bank Securities; Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Dewy & LeBoeuf Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber, Una Au Credit facility $750 million Micro Inc The Bank of Nova Scotia Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg Mayer Brown SEC-registered notes offering $400 million Bemis Company Inc JP Morgan Securities; Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; Wells Fargo; BNP Paribas Foley & Lardner Davis Polk & Wardwell - Michael Farber, Juelle Gomes

Algirdas Šemeta, European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud will propose broad objectives for the future VAT system by the end of the year.