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Roman Namyslowski has joined Crido Taxand as a partner. He will look after the firm's indirect taxes team and focus on developing new VAT services.

Chris Davidson, the former head of HM Revenue & Customs's anti-avoidance group, will advise clients on meeting best practice standards on tax governance and compliance in his new role as a director in KPMG's tax management consulting team in the UK.

BMR Legal has hired indirect tax specialist Madhav Rao as of counsel, based in Delhi. He joins from Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, where he was senior partner and country head, leading their litigation practice in Delhi.

Ajay Kumar has joined EY's tax practice in India as a partner. He formerly ran his own international tax boutique, Danta Transaction Services, which specialised in packaged consulting products covering the tax and regulatory aspects of cross-border investment.

Jonathon Leek is becoming a barrister and is joining Francis Burt Chambers in Perth, Australia on May 1, where he will continue to specialise in tax advice and tax disputes. He was formerly a partner of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Taxand Australia.

The US and Canada are at the forefront of a global increase in new mutual agreement procedures (MAPs) being initiated, OECD figures show.

Spain has elected to change its dividend and capital gains legislation after pressure from the European Commission (EC).

From November 24 to 27, Chris Jordan, commissioner of the Australian Tax Office (ATO), hosted tax administrators from 17 Asian member countries including tax leaders from key trade partners Japan and China at the Study Group on Asia Tax Administration in Research (SGATAR). The group of delegates agreed to form a regional task force to share best practices and information.

Public oil, gas and mining companies in the UK will now have to report what payments they make to governments on a country-by-country and project-by-project basis, after the UK became the first member state to put reporting provisions of the EU Accounting Directive into its national law this week.

The US Treasury has responded to calls for clarity about the status of jurisdictions that have agreed in substance an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with the US to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), but will not have signed it by the end of 2014.