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Vlad-Constantin Boeriu

José Barnola Jr

Sebastián Arcia Nodari

Kenneth B. Clark

The Americas have recently seen a number of changes that will impact controversy matters. In December 2017, certain countries passed major tax legislation and there is an increased need for the use of alternative dispute resolution strategies to preclude the need of entering costly and unnecessary litigation. Additionally, funding across the taxing authorities varies greatly and will have an impact on the compliance approaches that the authorities may take to encourage voluntary compliance and deploy resources to the most significant non-compliance. Appropriate funding coupled with recently enacted tax legislation will likely impact the way audits will be conducted in the Americas.

The Deloitte network of member firms in the Americas deploys the applicable local and regional teams quickly. Deloitte's Americas tax controversy teams consist of more 280 professionals with offices in 130 locations through a network of member firms.

Adam Halpern and Larissa Neumann of Fenwick and West examine some of the most important US tax disputes so far this year.

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has another chance to win the decade-long court battle against Medtronic after the Eighth Circuit Court referred the case back to the US Tax Court for a deeper analysis.

Big 4 firm EY has announced that it will acquire Riverview Law, a firm with a particularly strong technology practice.

During a debate session in Parliament on July 18, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng stated that on a full-year scale, sales and service tax (SST) collection will be RM 21 billion ($5.2 billion), which is almost half of that collected from GST in 2017.