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The Tokyo District Court recently issued two judgments regarding transfer pricing (TP) cases, both in relation to the treatment of intangibles. These decisions provide insights into how the Japanese tax authorities will evaluate intangibles when dealing with TP issues in audits going forward, explain Yutaka Kitamura and Jun Sawada of Deloitte.

IFA’s panel on EU developments was critical of the EU’s digital taxation package and state aid aggression.

Poland’s proposals to introduce an exit tax may unintentionally raise costs for some businesses that regularly operate across borders, warn practitioners.

George Callas has joined Steptoe & Johnson as managing director in the firm’s Washington DC office.

WTS Global has launched tax desks in New York and San Francisco to help it better serve its US clients.

Orrick has appointed Laurent Olléon as a partner in its Paris tax team. He is the third member of the Conseil d’Etat to join the French firm.

RSM has expanded its presence beyond Toronto to Western Canada, adding three Alberta firms in Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton from the Collins Barrow association.

Many companies are abandoning their ‘wait-and-see’ approach to M&A activity as BEPS uncertainty clears and the US tax reform incentivises taxpayers to alter their tax structures, in-house tax directors and advisers have said.

As the service sector of the global economy continues to grow rapidly, technological advances have enabled businesses to provide services from almost any location in the world to almost any other location in the world.

The US Senate Finance Committee has confirmed California tax attorney Charles Rettig will be the next head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).