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Peter Costello, the Australian treasurer, said the new measures will allow organizations involved in Project Wickenby – a government taskforce combating tax evasion – to share information better, helping to catch tax evaders.

Allan Bullot, formerly Ernst & Young's indirect tax head, will join Deloitte in Auckland as an indirect tax partner on August 21. Teresa Farac, who was a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, will start as a senior Deloitte partner in mid September.

David Riviere has become the national supply chain practice head of US-based business advisers Alvarez & Marsal. Riviere works from Atlanta.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury released the 2006-2007 Priority Guidance Plan on August 15.

The Internal Revenue Service announced the five large and medium sized business division appointments on August 16. Patricia Chaback will take deputy commissioner (international) Frank Ng's old job as industry director for communications, technology and media. Paul DeNard becomes director for pre-filing and technical guidance, Henry Singleton industry director for heavy manufacturing and transportation. Barry Shott takes DeNard's place as industry director for financial services. John Risacher replaces Henry Singleton as director for retailers, food, pharmaceuticals and healthcare.

The Mellon Bank division of Mellon, a Pittsburgh-based financial services company, has avoided being charged over the destruction of almost 80, 000 tax returns.

Nigeria has handed Chevron a $492 million bill that the oil company must pay within 21 days.

Manuel Candal, who was head of international tax at PwC Venezuela, has opened a new firm – Candal & Asociados. The Caracas-based firm has three partners, Manuel Candal, Jésus Candal and Luis Martinez, and expects to add a further two by December 2006.

A US appeals court ruled that the case between Paul Reddam and the accounting firm could be arbitrated rather than heard in court. The case involves Reddam's purchase of a tax shelter which left him with a $52 million tax bill.

After a court awarded the Church of Scientology over £4 million ($7.5 million), HM Revenue & Customs is likely to have to give several million to companies owed VAT rebates. HM Revenue & Customs had originally said that they would not acknowledge VAT claims from over three years ago. But the Court of Appeal ruled in February 2006, in a case brought by businessman Michael Fleming, that companies could take claims back to when the tax was introduced.