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Taxpayers in Thailand will be provided with more clarity and confidence for their related-party transactions as the revenue department has begun drafting long-awaited advance pricing agreement guidelines.

US companies wanting to invest in China are being warned not to rush their decision and to consider the tax implications before they move.

The administrative burden on tax departments in UK companies is set to increase after the government released further details on new requirements for senior accounting officers.

Nathan Hochman, assistant attorney general for the Tax Division of the US Department of Justice for the last year, has joined Bingham McCutchen as a partner in its Santa Monica, California office. He will be part of the complex litigation practice, with a focus on white-collar defence and tax.

Luxembourg's Parliament will finally make its double tax treaty with the United Arab Emirates legal this week after a wait of almost four years.

William Wilkins, President Obama's nominee as chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service and an assistant general counsel in the Department of the Treasury, has been a partner in the tax group of the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr law firm since 1988. He chairs the tax section of the American Bar Association and would succeed Don Korb, who joined Sullivan & Cromwell in January, as chief counsel.

President Obama has revealed what he meant by "international enforcement, reform deferral and other tax reform policies" in his budget request issued at the end of February

Mark Atkinson and Richard Coombes of Deloitte in London believe that the decision in the first UK transfer pricing case in more than 20 years shows that taxpayers need a good reason to base a transaction in a low-tax jurisidiction

Henry An David Jin-Young Lee The Ministry of Strategy and Finance has proposed a series of measures to help facilitate economic recovery. The proposed changes will become effective following approval by the National Assembly in its temporary session to be held in April 2009.

Janina Fornalik On December 22 2008 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down a ruling (case file C-414/07) stating that Polish VAT provisions placing restrictions on the deduction of VAT on the purchase of fuel to vehicles are contrary to the European Community regulations. The ruling was issued with regard to the dispute pending before the Polish regional administrative court in Cracow between the Polish tax authority (director of the tax chamber in Cracow) and Magoora. The Polish court decided to refer the questions to ECJ for a preliminary ruling with respect to the conformity of national law with the EU regulations.