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Trusts and estates planning and litigation specialist, Paul Collins has joined Akerman as a partner in New York.

The one-year anniversary of Malaysia implementing goods and services tax (GST) was marked by hundreds of protestors gathering in Kuala Lumpur's city centre on April 2 to express their discontent at the indirect tax burden.

See who has done the tax work on this month’s biggest deals

Gertjan Verachtert, attorney at Sansen International Tax Lawyers and member of AIJA, analyses Belgium’s new voluntary disclosure legislation in light of recent developments in information exchange, including the ‘Panama Papers’ leak.

Poonam Khaira Sidhu, commissioner of income tax and joint secretary at the Indian Revenue Service – who holds a Michigan LLM in international taxation with a master’s in economics – reflects on tax competition, inequality, BEPS, information exchange and black, white and grey lists in the wake of the ‘Panama Papers’ leak.

Jock McCormack As Australia heads towards a federal election in the coming months, much attention is focussed on further implementation of BEPS-driven unilateral and bilateral initiatives, including: firstly, ATO actions on the Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law (MAAL) post the critical March 31 2016 deadline; secondly, enhanced tax disclosure requirements under our Australian foreign Investment policy guidelines; and thirdly, actions to implement various BEPS-inspired initiatives under the new Australia/Germany double tax treaty.

Dorina Ndreka Property taxes in Albania are regulated by the law on the local tax system and consist of the building tax and the agricultural land tax. Subject to the property tax are all physical and legal persons, locals or foreigners, who own an immovable property (either agricultural land or a building). Taxpayers are determined based on legal documents that prove the ownership of the property.

Alexander Linn Thorsten Braun On February 4 2016, the European General Court (EGC) issued a decision upholding the 2011 decision of the European Commission that the 'restructuring exception' in Germany's rules relating to the carryforward of tax losses by companies in financial difficulties constituted illegal state aid under EU law.

David Jakovljevic Croatia and Luxembourg signed a treaty on the avoidance of double taxation (double tax agreement, DTA) on June 20 2014, which recently entered into force on January 13 2016.

Jim Fuller David Forst The IRS released far-reaching proposed regulations on determining whether an interest in a corporation is debt or equity. The earnings stripping rules (Code section 163(j)), with which inbound taxpayers are certainly familiar, are not affected by the proposed regulations. Rather the proposed regulations provide a separate set of rules which taxpayers must consider.