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Sean Foley

Tax Relief normally pays little attention to personal taxes, certainly in his working life. He prefers to limit the blind panic to tax filing season between October and January. Feeling a bit smug this year, however – yes, the tax return has been sent in – he couldn't help taking a peek at HMRC's late filing statistics and what a story they tell about UK taxpayers.

Beyonce tax: Putting the curve in curveball

Polish taxpayers, including foreign companies obliged to pay, for example, VAT in Poland, might have recently heard that the deadlines for filing the tax returns and paying taxes in Poland changed significantly from January 1 2015. This position has been indicated by some representatives of the tax authorities, but also by some tax advisers. However, it turns out that this assumption results from a simple misinterpretation of the tax provisions.

Ian Anderson has joined Pinsent Masons’s Doha office as a senior consultant.

As global communications become more efficient, developing countries are fast-tracking their progress to becoming global economies – with VAT and excise tax reforms a crucial part of that process. Meredith McBride speaks with indirect tax leaders to pinpoint the issues that will have taxpayers and their advisers scratching their heads in 2015.

With multilateral projects reaching their climax in 2015, the year ahead is sure to be filled with moments that define the future direction of international taxation. Matthew Gilleard highlights some of the major trends taxpayers should be looking out for in 2015.

Joe Stanley-Smith analyses how new attitudes and initiatives from tax authorities in key jurisdictions will influence the national and international tax dispute landscape in 2015.

Germany has acted before the OECD’s final recommendations on hybrid mismatches by including anti-hybrid financing measures in the 2013 Annual Tax Act. Oliver Wehnert and David Martiny of EY explore whether the German legislation is producing the results the government wants and look at how the law should change, as well as assessing the likelihood of this happening.

Hilmar Erb and Sebastian Lattmann of PwC explore new amendments to Germany’s self-disclosure rules, which have contributed to an increased compliance burden for taxpayers in 2015.