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Jonathan Sheehan and Conor Hurley of Arthur Cox explore some of the tax measures that have been introduced in Ireland, including the opportunities that Irish vehicles can offer to international investors in Irish and non-Irish real estate and mortgage-backed loans.

Singapore is a strategic centre for businesses hoping to grow their presence in Asia. Chiu Wu Hong and Harvey Koenig, tax partners at KPMG in Singapore, explore the jurisdiction's tax regime to see what makes Singapore an optimum investment gateway for Asia, including what marks it out as a holding company or headquarter location compared with other locations in the region

With the growing value of transactions, the amounts under dispute in transfer pricing controversies in India have steadily increased. Vishal Rai of EY explores how the information technology (IT) sector has been impacted, and how revised circulars for taxing IT and R&D centres could benefit the investment climate.

Antonio Carlos Marchetti Guzman and Ana Paula Schincariol Lui Barreto of Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados look at the tax aspects of public subsidies in light of the introduction of Brazilian IFRS rules and the approach of the Brazilian administrative courts.

Chinapat Visuttipat of HNP Counsel – Taxand, explores the planned introduction of real estate investment trusts (REITs) legislation in Thailand, looking at how it will work in practice, how it compares with other regimes in the region, and how it will impact the property market.

The need for holistic, end-to-end solutions to assist global tax teams in managing the entire life cycle of reporting, compliance, audits and planning across all tax types around the world has never been more critical, believe Chris Walsh and Bernadette Pinamont of Vertex.

Christian Aid, ActionAid, Global Witness and the Financial Transparency Coalition have accused G8 countries of failing to live up to the promises they made on tax and transparency a year ago at the Lough Erne summit in Northern Ireland.

Arun Jaitley, India’s new finance minister, delivers his first Budget speech at the beginning of next month and taxpayers in India, as well as potential foreign investors, are hopeful of a general simplification of the country’s indirect tax system and specific detail on the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) regime.

The view held by the German Federal Finance Court, is that the German VAT Administrative Guidelines contradict the European Court of Justice’s jurisdiction and, thus, the EU VAT Guideline with respect to chain supplies, reports Johan De Spiegeleer of Deloitte.

Taxpayers in Brazil should be aware of the impact on their compliance requirements of a new May 2014 law relating to tax and IFRS.