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Vincent Oratore has joined Ernst & Young in London as a partner in international tax services. He will be part of the financial services tax group, where he will advise clients on the tax implications of capital market transactions.

Sixth VAT Directive; Articles 9(2)(e), fifth indent, and 13B(a), (c) and (d)(2) and (3); Insurance and reinsurance transactions; Concept; Transfer of a portfolio of life reinsurance contracts, for consideration, to a person established in a third country; Determination of the place of that transfer; Exemptions.

Minimum prices; Tobacco products; Directive 95/59/EC; Health protection.

The commissioner of the IRS, Doug Shulman, has told board directors that they should be paying attention to their tax department's transfer pricing policies

The number of advance pricing arrangements (APAs) has dropped in Australia, figures from the country’s tax authorities have revealed

China’s State Administration of Taxation (SAT) recently issued the Notice of the SAT on Certain Issues concerning the Implementation of the Articles on Royalty Payment in Tax Treaties (circular Guoshuihan [2009] number 507)

New reporting obligations in financial accounts for intercompany transactions and off-balance arrangements and the increasing use by the tax authorities of disclosures in FIN 48 reports to select taxpayers for transfer pricing audits, have complicated companies’ tax affairs in Belgium

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $2.9 billion Cisco Systems Starent Networks Fenwick & West Ron Schrotenboer & Amanda Athanasiou Wilmer Hale Roger Ritt Restructuring £530 million ($862 million) Incisive Media Group Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Richard Ballard & Jenny Doak Acquisition $655 million GrainCorp United Malt Holdings Mallesons Stephen Jaques Justin Cherrington Acquisition €370 million ($551 million) Sanofi-aventis Fovea Pharmaceuticals Willkie Farr & Gallagher Acquisition Undisclosed Bloomberg BusinessWeek Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Tax policies around the world unintentionally fuelled the global financial downturn by encouraging companies to utilise debt rather than equity, says a policy paper from a global accountancy body

The big-four accountancy firms are part of the body that will advise on the design and review of Australia's tax system