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Deloitte in Australia has appointed Rodger Muir as an indirect tax partner in the firm's Sydney office. Muir joins from Ernst & Young Australia and has experience with both Australian and New Zealand indirect tax markets. Muir will take up his position on August 24.

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

Douglas Shulman The commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in the US became the new chairman of the OECD's Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) on August 18. Douglas Shulman took over from Pravin Gordhan, who became South Africa's minister for finance in May.

DLA Piper has appointed two KPMG economists to join its Amsterdam office as transfer pricing specialists. Ágata Uceda joins from KPMG where she worked for eight years, advising multinationals on the management, design and implementation of their transfer pricing policies. She has experience in all aspects of transfer pricing planning, dispute resolution and compliance, and has managed a wide range of assignments covering economic, management and fiscal aspects of transfer pricing.

Steven Sieker Steven Sieker has joined Baker & McKenzie as a partner in its Hong Kong office. He advises on Hong Kong, Canadian and Asian regional corporate tax, wealth management and tax litigation.

Fiona Walkinshaw Fiona Walkinshaw is leaving the Reynolds Porter Chamberlain law firm in London to join Deloitte as a partner. She will head a new direct tax litigation practice in the UK for the firm. She takes up her new role on September 14.

Edward Tanenbaum Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have issued revised temporary regulations under Internal Revenue Code section 7874 concerning the determination of whether a foreign corporation is treated as a surrogate foreign corporation.

Vladimir Kotenko In July 2009, the Cabinet of Ministers passed order number 757-p of July 1, and order number 838-p of July 17, both dealing with VAT administration. These orders restrict VAT credit for past periods and limit the right to adjust VAT returns to two months only. An adjustment to a VAT return exceeding 10% total VAT liabilities or VAT credit for a reporting month may be grounds for an off-schedule tax audit in the next month.

Paolo Giacometti Law decree number 78 dated July 1 2009 (the decree), as converted into law by law number 102 dated August 3 2009, introduced several new provisions aimed at, among other things, tackling international tax evasion and revising the controlled foreign company (the CFC) regime.

Anton Prawira The final tax regime is a scheme where the business pays income tax based on revenue rather than profit.