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The opinion of an Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice concerning the use of an asset leasing structure to defer the payment of tax has produced a mixed result for the taxpayer.

Cairn India, the energy company, has approached the Jaipur High Court to challenge a state government demand for VAT in relation to the company’s crude oil operations.

Heather Gething and Andrew Cooke of Herbert Smith explain why the Court of Appeal in London confirmed that legal professional privilege extends only to correspondence with lawyers

Credit Suisse, CRA, tax evasion,

Tax planning by US software firm, Google cuts overseas tax rate to 2.4%.

The Delhi bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal in the case of Sona Okegawa Precision Forging Ltd (2010-TII-41-ITAT-DEL-TP), has examined the issue of duplicative services and whether royalty can be paid to the associated enterprise (AE) for sales made to the AE itself.

France’s new documentation requirements are helping clients to iron out the creases in their transfer pricing policies.

Indonesia’s new transfer pricing rules only confirm what taxpayers believed to be the case already, advisers say.

The British government has presented taxpayers with a carbon tax in all but name.

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $3.1 billion Ventas Real estate assets of privately-owned Atria Senior Living Group Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Joshua Holmes, David M Einhorn & Michael Sabbah Acquisition $315 million Cadence Denali Software Fenwick & West Ron Schrotenboer, Tim Fitzgibbon, Natalie Pardo de Zela & Zachery Jones Acquisition $14 million Natus Medix Fenwick & West Timothy Fitzgibbon & Natalie Pardo de Zela Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Bond offering $2.75 billion Qatar Telecom Barclays Bank, Deutsche Bank (London Branch), Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Qatar National Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland & Standard Chartered Bank Latham & Watkins