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The UK government will name and shame deliberate tax defaulters to protect the country's tax system from abuse, the chancellor of the exchequer said today.

The OECD's progress report on adherence to global standards on the exchange of tax information has an effect already since it was published yesterday

The UK government has unveiled a package of incentives to encourage oil and gas companies to invest in the North Sea.

The European Commission has reported that the interest and royalties directive has been implemented satisfactorily, despite the need for improvements.

Tax professionals have welcomed modifications to proposals on the taxation of foreign profits, which were contained in a UK budget that included few headline-grabbing tax measures for business.

Companies will have to file all VAT returns online under draft legislation from the UK tax authorities.

Corporate tax systems are past their "best before date", Shell's vice president of tax policy told the European Commission's annual tax forum in Brussels on Monday.

Kevin Dolan has left Merrill Lynch, where he was a senior vice-president and senior tax counsel, to join Shearman & Sterling as of counsel. Before his nine years at the bank, Dolan was head of Weil Gotshal & Manges' Washington tax practice and also worked in governmenet for the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury and the SEC.

By Andrey Tereschenko, Roustam Vakhitov and Alexey Markov of Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners