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By Salman Shaheen

Conflict has unfortunately been part of human life since time began. This is just as true in the tax market. Companies want to minimise the amount of tax they pay, while tax authorities want to collect as much as they can. The struggles leads to expensive, time-consuming and lengthy disputes, often in a courtroom.

Deloitte has expanded its tax practice in Spain with the appointment of new partners and directors, and the establishment of an office in the Balearic Islands.

The Internal Revenue Service in the US has announced that it will no longer challenge how credit card companies report certain fees for tax purposes.

RSM Tenon, the seventh largest accountants and business advisory firm in the UK, has made two senior appointments in its tax team.

The Loyalty Management UK and Baxi VAT cases will come back to the UK courts after the European Court of Justice's ruling in the joined litigation today.

Gowlings – Taxand has hired a leading Canada Revenue Agency official to work in its Ottawa office. Jim Wilson leaves the CRA after 30 years. His last role was as treaty expert in the technical competent authority group.

For the first time, an in-house tax team of the year award was presented at International Tax Review's Americas Tax Awards 2010 in New York last week and it went to the tax department that worked on the most significant transfer pricing litigation in America for many years.

Dixon Hearder joined from Corrs Chambers Westgarth, where he was Sydney group tax leader. He has developed a transfer pricing practice in recent years, though his main experience has been in stamp duty including advising on property development, funds management, structured and project finance, infrastructure projects, as well as M&A and corporate restructures. He also advises on a wide range of GST issues.

Indian taxpayers should have been paying close attention to the country's Supreme Court in recent weeks as a number of key tax decisions have been made that affect the way companies operate.