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New Zealand’s Inland Revenue has opened a public consultation on the taxation of debt remission amid questions on whether the activity could constitute tax avoidance.

The Philippines tax authority has finally issued a circular to clarify the rules on claiming VAT refunds.

The Finance Act 2014 introduced substantial changes to Ireland's general anti-avoidance rule (New GAAR).

The 4th edition of Switzerland is available as a downloadable PDF

Dave Camp, former US House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee chairman, has joined PwC as a policy adviser.

After more than 20 years with PwC, Rahul Mitra has joined KPMG India (BSR & Associates is the affiliated chartered accountant firm) as a partner in the tax & transfer pricing practice and national leader of dispute resolution and litigation for direct taxes & transfer pricing.

Sean Hailey, a former tax adviser to the US House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means, has moved to EY.

The global M&A market is resurgent; statistics for 2014 raced passed the equivalent indices for 2013, and the trajectory is accelerating as we move towards the halfway point of this year. While tax is not the reason for this activity, it is playing a key role in how the transactional market is developing in some sectors.

Despite a resurgent global transaction market, and signs that corporate confidence on Wall Street and beyond is returning to levels not seen since the global financial crisis, challenges remain as new waves of legislation are expected at both domestic and international level throughout this year. Matthew Gilleard tracks tax transactional trends across the Americas.

Transactional work varies from jurisdiction-to-jurisdiction with the ebb and flow of various economic cycles, but a prevailing theme across the EMEA region has been that more and more advisory firms are urging taxpayers to prepare for the impact of the OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) action plan. Joe Stanley-Smith investigates how this is impacting key jurisdictions across the region.