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Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda aim to synchronise their VAT regimes by April 2015.

Graham Iversen has joined Greenberg Traurig's London office as a a partner in the firm's global tax group.

Emma Craig-West has joined Alma Consulting Group from the UK tax authorities as R&D tax manager

The OECD is getting straight back to work on base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS).

Tax has changed dramatically since the first issue of International Tax Review came out in November 1989. Using a selection of articles – one from each year – Ralph Cunningham and Matthew Gilleard assess how many of those changes have been reflected in the publication over the past 25 years.

John McGowan John McGowan has joined Deloitte in the US as a partner and leader of its national tax technology practice. He will help drive the technology strategy and application development for Deloitte's tax business in the US which consists of more than 500 tax technology professionals. McGowan was formerly KPMG's chief information officer for global tax. At Deloitte he will focus on helping clients use tax technology to solve complex business issues. McGowan is a certified public accountant and has a master's degree in accounting and a bachelor's degree in science.

The double-Irish will not be available to new companies from January and will be phased out for existing taxpayers between now and 2020 The Irish government announced in its 2015 Budget the abolition of the so-called double-Irish structure and its intention to introduce an income-based system for the taxation of intellectual property, which it is calling a Knowledge Development Box. In a well-flagged move, Michael Noonan, the Irish Minister of Finance, said in his speech that the double-Irish would be not be available to new companies from January 1 next year. A transition period for existing taxpayers will last until the end of 2020. Noonan said the change means that companies incorporated in Ireland would have to be tax resident there too.

It was a year of memorable images, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the student-led protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. It was a year of ups and downs, too; in Germany the wall came down while in China protestors stood up for democracy.

Australian firm Johnson, Winter & Slattery (JWS) has completed a double move for Reynah Tang and Stewart Grieve, both of whom had previously worked at Corrs Chambers Westgarth for more than 20 years each.

Christopher Roman Nick Thornton Christopher Roman and Nick Thornton have become new tax partners of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Roman specialises in the tax aspects of alternative investment funds, fund-related M&A and real estate, as well as representing investors in secondary sales of interests in private funds and investors in debt and equity transactions.