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International Tax Review will present its fifth annual Asia Tax Awards at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore on November 23 2010.

Tax lawyers and the tax authorities often find themselves fighting against each other in the courts. On Wednesday they were on the same side.

This appeal was about legal professional privilege (LPP) and whether it applies to the seeking and receiving legal advice from non-lawyers.

Taxpayers that have not kept up with transfer pricing requirements in Vietnam have until October 20 to regulate their affairs if they do not want to pay a penalty.

The OECD is considering public comments received from taxpayers, advisers and organisations that represent tax professionals that could revise chapters VI and VIII of its transfer pricing guidelines (TPG).

Caroline Silberztein, head of transfer pricing at the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, talks to Salman Shaheen of TP Week about why it launched an initiative on intangibles and what the market has been saying about the things it should cover.

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Investment $1.2 billion Televisa Univision Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz T. Eiko Stange Acquisition $380 million First Reserve Rovigo solar power plant Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett John Creed Acquisition $44 million Community Bancorp Cadence Bank Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Joshua Holmes Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Top-Up Placing $292 million China Everbright China International Capital Corporation Slaughter & May

The European Commission has said banks and financial services companies must make a fair contribution to public finances and has come out in support of two new taxes for the sector.

The Canada Department of Finance has released draft legislative proposals which, if enacted, will change the rules for taxation of employee stock options.

William Guy, the tax compliance manager of TNT, the global mail and express delivery company, will join VMW Taxand, the Netherlands firm in the global Taxand organisation of independent tax firms, on November 1.