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Scott Sontag has joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a tax partner based in New York. He advises clients on a wide range of domestic and international transactions.

Seth Terkper, Ghana’s minister of finance, and Hafiz Choudhury, senior adviser, International Tax and Investment Centre, discuss the challenges for developing countries in creating tax systems that raise enough revenue to fund development and also encourage investment.

Patrick Connolly is an experienced senior in-house tax adviser who has spent the past 10 years in in-house regional tax roles covering Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia/Pacific regions as well as head office tax responsibilities. He shares his views on getting the most value from the client/adviser relationship. Paul Dunne, national managing tax partner for KPMG New Zealand and the tax lead on a number of multinational clients, provides his response and comments.

Taxpayers are aware that demonstrating substance in a given transaction is of paramount importance. Here, Sanjay Sanghvi and Aditi Mukundan of Khaitan & Co explain why this is even more relevant in India by exploring the evolution of the substance requirement in Indian tax law.

The basic job of a tax authority is to collect tax. In many countries, where multinational corporations are concerned, they are failing at that job. Salman Shaheen finds out why.

Fewer private letter rulings given by the US tax authorities and a desire for liquidity are two of the reasons why insurance is becoming a popular protection against tax risks, explain James Gray and Alexios Hadji of Squire Sanders.

See who has done the tax work on this month’s biggest deals

Richard Milnes has joined Grant Thornton in the UK as a financial services tax partner.

William Pauls has become a tax partner of Sutherland in the law firm's Washington, DC office.

There is a new executive chairman at Steptoe & Johnson. Phil West, who heads the firm's tax group, took over on January 1 2014 from Roger Warin, who now becomes chair emeritus. The Steptoe partners also re-elected Phil Malet as vice-chairman of the executive committee.