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At the beginning of 2013, and after having had a very hard time trying to convince businesses to support the 2012 tax reform, the government promised that it would file a comprehensive tax reform to better articulate the tax system and in this way avoid the need of making reforms every other year to deal with budget constraints, writes Jaime Vargas, tax managing partner and international tax services leader at EY Colombia.

Latham & Watkins has hired top transactional tax professional Eli Katz as a partner in its tax and finance departments in New York.

McDermott Will & Emery has appointed Russell Hampshire as the tax principal in its London office.

The way tax policy is made in the UK needs to be reformed, say business organisations, but the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond will not unveil his plans until the Autumn Statement next month.

The latest transfer pricing news including updates on Irish bilateral APAs, the OECD's Multilateral Instrument and Costa Rica's TP regulations.

Matthew Cridland One of the major items of recent Australian tax news has been the increasing efforts of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to investigate taxpayers named in the Panama Papers. Other developments have included a recent decision by the Administrative Appeal Tribunal (AAT) regarding input tax credit (GST credit) entitlements for GST incurred on retirement village development costs. A tax Bill has also been introduced by the recently re-elected government, led by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, which will implement the new Germany/Australia double tax treaty once enacted. The ATO has also published its 2016-17 corporate tax plan. Meanwhile, the Board of Tax is continuing to focus on companies signing up to the Tax Transparency Code.

Andrés Edelstein Ignacio Rodríguez The Argentine government has launched and updated promotional tax measures for the energy sector that intends to encourage the use of renewable energy sources for the production of electricity.

With tax authorities being granted more and more company data as transparency measures start to hit, Keith Brockman looks at how companies could scrutinise them.

Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia speaks to reporters after the Cabinet meeting on September 12

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