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The Philippines’ Bureau of Internal Revenue chief, Kim Henares, has been appointed by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to the UN Committee of Experts on International [...]

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Bradley as its new Head of Corporate Tax. She started the role on 1 November 2014 and continues to be based in London. [...]

PKF Pacific Hawaii LLP has announced that Reg Baker has joined the firm as a Partner, with effect from 1 October. His role will be to lead the tax and accounting practices for the Firm. Baker [...]

Ali Kazimi has joined Mazars London as a Financial Services Tax Partner. Mr Kazimi has held several tax leadership roles over the years and this is a high profile hire for Mazars. From 2005 to [...]

I forgot to mention yesterday about another leadership change at Baker & McKenzie. Erik Scheer, former Global Tax Chair, has been elected to serve on the Firm’s Executive Committee. [...]

Baker & McKenzie’s top brass met in London yesterday and announced various leadership changes. Eduardo Leite continues to lead the Firm, having had 2 year extension to his position as [...]

Jens Svolgaard has joined Spotify as Head of Group Tax based from Stockholm. Jens is a highly experienced in-house tax professional. He joins from Electronic Arts where he was Senior Tax Director [...]

Mr Tom Moyane has ben appointed as the new SARS Commissioner in an announcement made today by President Jacob Zuma. Mr Tom Moyane brings more than 30 years’ experience to the role, having worked [...]

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has hired Vanessa Tollis from Gide Loyrette Nouel to chair its international tax team in New York. Vanessa Tollis specializes in the U.S. tax aspects of cross [...]

John Dixon has left EY UK and been replaced by Jason Lester (pictured). Mr Lester was formerly Head of Business Tax Services and part of a 7 strong tax leadership team for the UK and Ireland. He [...]