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By Marienne Mendonça Shiota Coutinho, KPMG, São Paulo

International Tax Review co-publishes the eighth edition of its Indirect Taxes Guide with leading tax advisers: Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, Atoz – Taxand, Ernst & Young, Eurofast Global, HNP Taxand, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers. The guide is the 55th in the Tax Reference Library series, which has also covered other topics such as transfer pricing, tax management in companies and outsourcing. They are designed to give in-house tax counsel the most cutting-edge advice for planning their corporation's tax strategy and structuring transactions in these fields. More are on the way.

The European Commission is right to pursue a coherent and uniform application of the VAT grouping option, but how it is choosing to do it is not, believe Daniel Keller, Christian Schubert of PwC Germany and Sjoerd Janssen of and Pwc in the Netherlands

Taxpayers in Colombia need more certainty concerning the taxation of cross-border intellectual property transactions, believes Catalina Hoyos Jimenez of Godoy & Hoyos

By Enrique Ermoglio, Deloitte, Uruguay

International Tax Review is publishing the seventh edition of its Latin America Guide in association with leading tax advisors: Candal Taxand, Carey y Cia, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Godoy & Hoyos, KPMG, Machado Associados, and Muñoz Manzo y Ocampo. The guide is the 56th in the Tax Reference Library Series, which has covered other topics such as indirect taxes, transfer pricing, and outsourcing. They are designed to give in-house tax counsel the most cutting-edge advice for planning their corporation's tax strategy and structuring transactions in these fields. More are on the way.

Countries in Latin America took different fiscal options to cope with the economic downturn. Some pushed tax rates up, others took the opposite course, reports Erin Kelechava

A value added tax may be coming to the US, but taxpayers should be aware that they already may be subject to taxes that they may not know about, explains Mark McCormick of Alvarez & Marsal Taxand.

Legislation about the treatment of emission reduction units could raise more VAT issues than it solves, believe Alexander Smirnov, Alexei Matveev and Anna Ryzhkova of Ernst & Young in Russia

By Ralph Cunningham in Rome