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By Joanna Faith

By Ralph Cunningham

By David Stevenson

Tax avoidance is in the news. And taxpayers have not been responding to it. The issue has been a key issue for taxpayers and officials for sometime. They have argued for years about what it is and it is not. The authorities have introduced disclosure rules so they get information earlier about which structures and planning they should examine more closely.

Michael Shikuma has become a partner of White & Case in Tokyo. He is a certified public accountant and Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (registered foreign lawyer), as well as a member of the Hawaii State Bar. He advises clients on the taxation of cross-border transactions and restructurings, and high-net-worth individuals on personal and international estate planning in the US, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.

HM Revenue and Customs has announced that it will no longer claim unjust enrichment as a defence when arguing against VAT claims by businesses

Jordi Dominguez Jordi Dominguez, a partner of Garrigues in Madrid, is leaving to join Latham & Watkins as a partner in the same city. He has worked on complex tax planning and structuring matters in cross-border M&A, restructuring transactions and insolvency proceedings, and on the tax aspects of investing in Latin America.

Twenty partners will make up the tax practice of a new Italian law firm following the merger of Camozzi & Bonissoni Varrenti & Associati and Studio Associato LCA.

Dennis Turovets Dennis Turovets will chair Magisters' tax practice in its new office in Minsk. The office opened on February 4 after the firm merged with BelJurbureau, a Belarus practice, in December. Three other professionals will work Turovets, who is also the managing partner of the office, in the tax practice.

KPMG has recruited two new tax partners from the firm's big-four competitors. Kenneth Harvey has joined the firm's international corporate services practice as a partner and will be based in Hong Kong for a three-year assignment. Harvey has extensive experience with tax matters relating to M&A, IRS tax controversy, as well as tax compliance engagements and regulation.