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Andy Todd, tax director at Aviva's life insurance group, will join Deloitte's UK insurance industry practice as a tax partner in September. Before joining Aviva, Todd was at Arthur Andersen

If at first you don't succeed, try again seems to have been the motto underlining the sale of Ballentine Barbera Group, the transfer pricing and valuation advisers, to CRA, the economics, finance and business strategy consultants. The deal cost CRA $22.7 million.

Frank Ng will be the first US Internal Revenue Service deputy commissioner (international) for large and medium sized businesses (LMSB). Ng was the industry director for communications, technology and media in LMSB before taking on an acting role in his new job. John Imhoff has been appointed deputy chief of criminal investigation

US law firm Morgan Lewis showed its intent to become a leading tax practice on the west-coast and nationally with the hiring of Bill Colgin, a tax controversy specialist, from Fenwick & West.

Dan Lange: new international tax head Dan Lange, the new global managing partner for international tax services at Deloitte, has pinpointed training and knowledge sharing as the keys to the firm delivering the "global seamless service" that he says clients demand. "If you're trained on the same methodologies, using the same tools and approaches, you share a common culture, then you've got the ability to provide transparent services across multiple borders," he said.

The Treasury Department and IRS on June 1 2006, released for publication in the Federal Register proposed regulations (Regulations 135866-02) concerning determinations of earnings and profits attributable to stock of controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) – or former CFCs – that are or were involved in certain non-recognition transactions.

As announced in the Budget in March 2006, this year's Finance Bill contains provisions that will operate to extend the scope of the UK's powers to enter into international agreements relating to mutual assistance in the enforcement of taxes. The new powers will allow the UK to enter into arrangements for the exchange of information in relation to both direct and indirect taxes (the present rules only cover direct taxes) and will permit such arrangements to include powers for mutual assistance in tax collection.

The Swiss Federal Council has approved the amendment of the value-added tax (VAT) ordinance, effective as of July 1 2006. In so doing a political motion requesting more legal certainty and less VAT formalism was implemented in record time.

By Bivek Sharma and Mike McGowan (UK)

The Spanish tax authorities raise the issue of changing and improving the Canary Islands Special Zone Regime (ZEC) with the European Commission within the framework of the negotiations for renewal of tax incentives under the Canary Islands Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF).