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By Erin Kelechava

Clemens Hasenauer Johannes Prinz After OECD and G20 pressure and in line with Switzerland and Luxembourg, Austria has withdrawn its reservation about article 26 of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital and loosened its banking secrecy rules to improve access of foreign tax administrations to Austrian bank information.

One of the Baker & McKenzie team that helped Veritas Software win a case about the valuation of cost sharing agreements at the US Tax Court in December has been promoted by the firm. Catlin Urban has become a director in the US tax controversy practice.

German firm Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz has made Dita Sulcová an associated partner. Sulcová specialises in the tax structuring of M&A transactions and international taxation.

Gary Gowrea The director general of the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA), under the Income Tax Act 1995 ("Act"), issue rulings as to the MRA interpretation of the provisions of the Act. The ruling is given based on the facts set out in the application by a taxpayer.

Transfer Pricing Associates, a leading independent provider of global transfer pricing and customs services, has entered into alliances with Indian and Polish firms.

Richard Hartnig has joined Sutherland Asbill & Brennan as of counsel in the tax practice group, based in the Atlanta office. Hartnig has just retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers. He will advise clients about international tax matters, including the tax aspects of cross-border M&A, divestitures, reorganisations, financings, cash repatriations and intercompany transactions. Hartnig has advised Fortune 1000 and major inbound companies for more than 30 years. He formerly worked in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service.

Richard Sherman Mark Young Richard Sherman has become a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal Taxand in Chicago. He is a member of the transaction tax practice and advises strategic clients the tax aspects of M&A, cross-border investments, repatriations, tax modelling and bankruptcy tax planning, tax due diligence, tax structuring, financial modelling, tax efficient financing structures, foreign tax credit planning, local country tax planning and transfer pricing.

Sean Foley Landon McGrew The IRS was recently handed an important defeat in Veritas Software Corp. v. Commissioner, 133 TC No. 14 (2009), one of the largest tax disputes in US history.

Suzanne Boers On December 5 2009, as a follow-up to the consultation document with possible amendments to the Dutch Corporate Income Tax Act, the state secretary of finance published a letter with the state of affairs regarding the allocation of the corporate tax burden and the issue of taxation of interest.