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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.

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.

Proskauer has strengthened its private investment funds practice and tax department in London with the recruitment of a lawyer from Gibson Dunn.

The OECD has advertised for a new director of its Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) after the announcement that Jeffrey Owens is to retire from the post in January 2012.

Gorrissen Federspiel will have a new joint head of tax on November 1.

The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes has told Panama that it must improve its level of tax transparency.

President Obama countered arguments from the business community about his administration's anti-corporate attitude when he said on Monday that he would consider lowering the corporate tax rate.

Greg Kanargelidis of Blake, Cassels & Graydon explains why a decision of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal about the method of valuing imports for customs tariff purposes will make the valuation of imported goods more complex.

For the first time, an in-house tax team of the year award was presented at International Tax Review's Americas Tax Awards 2010 in New York last week and it went to the tax department that worked on the most significant transfer pricing litigation in America for many years.