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President Obama has nominated Cary Pugh to be a judge of the US Tax Court for a term of 15 years. She will replace Robert Wherry Jr, who became a senior judge of the court in April. Her appointment must be ratified by the Senate.

Baker & McKenzie has promoted 11 practitioners from different areas of its tax practice, including international tax, transfer pricing, indrect tax and wealth management, to the partnership.

Giulia Cipollini Giulia Cipollini has joined Withers, the international law firm, in its Milan office as a senior counsel and head of tax in Italy. The contentious and transactional tax specialist was formerly with tax boutique Studio Legale e Tributario Cordeiro Guerra & Associati and before that, Legance Studio Legale Associato and Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners. Cipollini is regarded as one of Italy's leading trust law experts and has practised Italian tax law since 2003. She also teaches tax law at leading institutions.

PLMJ has hired Miguel Reis as a tax partner in its Oporto office. He has more than 25 years' experience advising domestic and international clients during stints at firms such as Garrigues, Taxand Portugal; Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira; Deloitte and Arthur Andersen. He brings the number of partners in the tax team to four.

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has finally taken effect. The legislation, first introduced in 2010, has seen a series of delays, but the withholding requirements it imposes on foreign financial institutions became applicable on July 1.

Shane Wallace has joined William Fry Tax Advisors, Taxand Ireland as a partner. He was formerly with Deloitte, where he advised multi-nationals and Irish companies on issues including M&A, inward investment, restructurings and real estate. Recently, he has advised on significant acquisitions in the technology, media and telecommunications sector.

State finance minister requests a green tax to be imposed on mining because he fears the destination principle, which forms part of the goods and services tax (GST) regime, will negatively impact revenue streams of mineral rich states.

Ferdie Schneider Ferdie Schneider has joined BDO South Africa as head of tax. He was a partner of KPMG from March 2005 until now, specialising in VAT. Before that, he was a partner of Deloitte for more than six years. Between January 1990 and December 1996, he worked in government, first as chief taxation officer of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and then as senior economist in the National Treasury of South Africa.

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Implementation date has finally arrived! Governments have bridled at its extra-territorial effect, financial institutions have laboured to comply with its reporting and due diligence requirements, and some US Congressmen threatened to wreck it, but the withholding requirements under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) still took effect on July 1, six months later than planned. Efforts by the US to get foreign financial institutions (FFI) to supply it with information about their American account holders are bringing results. The Treasury announced on June 24 that almost 88,000 FFIs, including banks, funds, brokers, investment companies and custodians, were on the list of institutions that had registered on its online portal to become FATCA compliant.