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A senior Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official has said that the US tax authorities are working on building relationships with their counterparts overseas and improving the efficiency of these exchanges

Douglas Shulman, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the US, has told taxpayers and advisers that the international tax system needs to change to to meet the challenges of a shrinking world

Julien Gayral has become a tax partner of Bredin Prat in its Paris office.

Chile will join the OECD on January 11 2010 after it signs the Accession Agreement in Santiago.

Europe's top official for development issues has said that now is the time to help developing countries increase their revenues by building robust tax systems

Type of Agreement Country Country Date Signed Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement Argentina San Marino December 7 2009 Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement UK Montserrat December 9 2009 Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement Denmark Saint Lucia December 10 2009 Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement Netherlands Malaysia December 10 2009 Tax Information Exchange Agreement China British Virgin Islands December 10 2009

The UK tax tribunal has ruled that there is no defence of due diligence available to the UK for a breach of fiscal neutrality

In 2010, International Tax Review is running its third annual online polls of the leading tax transactional and planning advisory firms around the world

Transfer Pricing Associates (TPA) has appointed Michael Velten to its Asia team. Velten will lead the firm's global financial services practice and will be based in Hong Kong.