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Adam Kobos, an energy tax specialist, has joined Troutman Sanders office in Portland, Oregon as a partner. He was formerly with Stoel Rives.

Ulf Andresen, Jobst Wilmanns and Oliver von Schweinitz of PwC look at the tax and transfer pricing implications of a separation of investment banking from commercial banking.

Stefan Ditsch of PwC gives an overview of recent tax developments and a selection of major law changes, tax court decisions and administrative rulings.

Roberto Carlos Rivas, Carolina Alexandres and Gabriel Bernal of PwC look at the changes to transfer pricing legislation which came into force in September last year.

Transfer pricing reforms, such as the introduction of safe harbour rules, have not reduced litigation or cut the compliance burden in India. And the government’s approach to the BEPS project could increase reporting requirements, explain Rajendra Nayak and Shweta Pai of EY.

Adalberto Valadez and Daniel De la Parra of Chevez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cia report on the amendments to the Income Tax Law, VAT Law and the Excise Tax Law.

Susann van der Ham and Ina Sprenger of PwC critically discuss the recently issued draft ordinance on income allocation of permanent establishments as a further implementation step of the Authorised OECD Approach (AOA) into German tax law.

At a time when the global community is focussed on international taxation issues, including in particular the perceived shifting of income or profits from one jurisdiction to another, Canada continues to address these issues through the evolution of its domestic law, explains Jeffrey Shafer of Blake, Cassels & Graydon.

Rakesh Nangia of Nangia & Co look at value shifting in the context of the Shell India controversy.