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Ceteris has announced that energy specialist David Prowse has joined the Calgary office as a managing director. Ceteris a economic consulting firm specialising in transfer pricing, litigation support, and valuation services. Its market focus is corporate tax and finance departments.

Mumbai: dual tax International businesses have challenged the Indian government to defend its policy of charging foreign companies higher taxes than domestic firms.

Richard Coombes Deloitte has hired Richard Coombes from the Revenue & Customs as a director in its rapidly expanding UK transfer pricing team.

Agnieszka Marciniuk From August 31 2007 Polish exporters could take advantage of the export control system (ECS), an EU tool for handling electronically, customs documentation used for export procedures.

Rajendra Nayak Ganesh Pai The Delhi Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) in the case of Western Union Financial Services Inc. vs. ADIT [2007] 291 ITR (AT) 176 examined the taxability of a foreign company carrying out money transmission services. The taxpayer, a tax resident of US, was a company incorporated in the US and was engaged in the business of rendering money transfer services across international borders. For its activities in India, the taxpayer appointed agents in India who were compensated by way of commission.

The United States government has said it will go to court to challenge European plans to impose a carbon tax on airlines.

The Washington DC office of McDermott Will & Emery has announced the addition of three tax partners to its practice. Blake Rubin, formerly head of Arnold & Porter's tax practice, along with Andrea Whiteway and Jon Finkelstein have joined the firm's tax department.

Galina Naumenko Olesya Ivanik Historically, foreign investors acquiring shares in Russian companies mainly considered tax risks of the purchased legal entities based upon tax due diligence of the target Russian companies. Tax risks of the seller, including those arising from pre-transaction restructuring, have usually been treated as risks which do not affect the new investor. Recent court decisions, however, indicate that there are additional risks to consider when making investments in Russia.

Jordi Domínguez As mentioned in our previous contribution to the International Tax Review, late in July the government released a first draft of new regulations. Its purpose is (i) developing law 36/2006 on measures for the prevention of tax fraud, and (ii) also amending the corporate income tax regulations.

Peter Dachs The Supreme Court of Appeal has made a rare judgment on a permanent establishment issue. The appellant in the case qualified as a resident of South Africa and was a partner in a law firm in Lesotho.