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Australia's government could help companies by focusing more on "micro business tax issues" instead of cutting the corporate tax rate, a leading tax director has said.

Find out which advisers and firms did the tax work on recent leading transactions

Hidehiro Utsumi has left Allen & Overy in Japan to join law firm TMI Associates as a partner. He joined on August 1.

Tax professionals in India have reacted cautiously to the possibility of general anti-avoidance rules becoming part of the country's tax rules for the first time.

India's revenue authorities issued a new draft direct tax code yesterday for public consultation.

Frank Ng, the former commissioner of the Large and Mid-Size Business (LMSB) division of the Internal Revenue Service in the US, has joined Ernst & Young. He will be a member of the tax controversy and risk management services practice. Ng worked for the US tax authorities for 35 years in roles such as tax attaché in Tokyo and chief, tax treaty division, assistant commissioner (international). Three years ago he became LMSB's first deputy commissioner (international), which included responsibility, as the US competent authority, for tax treaties and international compliance programmes. A year later he was appointed LMSB commissioner.

Linklaters in the Netherlands has a tax department again after Olaf Kroon joined the firm's Amsterdam office.

Tax professionals have criticised the length of guidance released by HM Revenue & Customs on the new rules for senior accounting officers in UK multinationals.

DLA Piper has appointed two KPMG economists to join its Amsterdam office as transfer pricing specialists.

A leading tax lawyer has criticised new tax incentives aimed at encouraging multinational companies to set up regional headquarters in Beijing.