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I find this quite staggering, but HMRC in their wisdom are launching a TV advertising campaign this evening, encouraging people to inform on suspected tax dodgers. There is a whistle-blowing [...]

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary have announced 59 of their lawyers have been promoted worldwide to partner status. This includes a new tax partner for the Milan office, Nicola Zeni.

A new tax site was launched this week, called TotallyTax.com. The site aims to be the largest tax sites directory on the net and contains tax links and content that will be of relevance to tax [...]

PAETEC Communications Inc. has hired Keith Thorp as vice president of tax. He previously worked as U.S. head of tax for UCB Group; prior to that, he was a senior tax manager KPMG

A new tax conferences business as been launched in the UK called Longmark. The company focuses on delivering tax conferences in the North of England, where traditionally these have always taken [...]

Brian Cromwell (ex Ballentine Barbera), Phil Carmichael (ex KPMG) and Michelle Martinez (ex KPMG) are all senior economists joining Baker’s Global Transfer Pricing Practice. These hires [...]

Attention all VAT and GST experts out there. If you were planning to relocate to Malaysia in anticipation of their new GST system, you should unpack your bags. The planned start date was 1 Jan [...]

The US firm of Deloitte has hired Bill Ziegler as National Talent Acquisition Leader. He joins from Accenture where he was Global Sourcing Leader.

Michael Wilson is a Canadian politician who will soon be their US Ambassador. He also happens to be the man responsible for the introduction of Good and Services Tax. Little bit of history for you !

Vulcan Materials, the US producer of construction aggregates and a member of the S&P 500 index, has announced that James O’Brien is the new VP of Tax. He replaces Terry Reese who is [...]