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Here we go again. Barely an issue of ITR passes by without poor old Tax Relief being asked to write something funny about a footballer or football agent who is accused of somehow avoiding or evading tax. Hopefully, footballers will start to clean up their affairs soon or we will run out of puns – the back of the net is almost empty!

India’s new digital sales tax regime was announced with just three weeks for businesses to comply. Two weeks since its introduction and it seems foreign companies are still unclear on how to administer the tax.

Pinsent Masons professor of tax law, University of Oxford; general editor of the British Tax Review; founding member of Women in Tax

A VAT rulebook introducing a new form – called POPDV – could drastically and unnecessarily increase the level of complexity of records for businesses.

Fulvia Astolfi

With the political logjam in Spain now cleared and a new government in situ, Royal Decree-Law 3/2016 ushers in a raft of tax amendments to see the year out with the aim of consolidating public finances.

Romania plans to introduce rules in the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (ATAD) two years before the EU's required effective date.

The European Commission re-launched its proposal to introduce a common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) on October 25 2016, with the aim of creating a level playing field for multinationals in Europe and creating a simple and pro-business tax environment. Sandy Bhogal, head of tax in London, and Kitty Swanson, associate, of law firm Mayer Brown give their opinion on the plan and whether this attempt may succeed.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on Spanish tax incentives for multinationals may prove crucial to Apple’s €13 billion ($14.8 billion) tax battle over illegal state aid.

For investors who want to successfully invest in Iran, Bahman Zebardast, a freelance tax adviser and internal audit manager at debt management company Tarh and Andisheh Behsaz Mellat in Tehran, provides his top tax advice.