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Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs will be able to publish taxpayers' names, addresses and details of their evasion under a new law introduced today.

A former senior associate of DLA Piper has joined four other lawyers to set up Nicea Abogados in Madrid.

Edward Tanenbaum Tola Ozim On December 9 2009, the House of Representatives approved the Tax Extenders Act of 2009 (TEA), amending portions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance (FATCA) introduced earlier in the Congress.

Sean Foley Landon McGrew The IRS and the Treasury department recently released final and temporary regulations that apply to certain transactions entered into with a principal purpose of avoiding the application of section 304 (TD 9477). These regulations replace the prior temporary regulations which were issued by the IRS and the Treasury department on June 14 1988 (TD 8209).

Hatasakdi Na Pombejra Chatchawan Wattanasittichok The e-commerce business industry is growing dramatically, especially in Thailand. Yet, at the same time, there are many tax issues rising from this new alternative business model.

Vladimir Kotenko On December 23 2009, the government approved a tax reform strategy that outlines the actions it plans to pursue in the near future.

Kevin Heyde vice president and director of international tax research and planning for Brown Forman, a global spirits and wines company, since 1995, has joined Mountjoy Chilton Medley, the largest accounting firm in the US state of Kentucky, as a partner. He will be responsible for expanding the firms international tax practice, focusing on strategic global tax strategies. Mountjoy Chilton Medley is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a global affiliation of public accounting firms.

Taxand has added one member to its network of independent tax specialists, the largest group of its kind in the world. Gobert, Fest & Partners Attorneys and Tax Advisors has become the network's exclusive member firm for Hungary. This means that Taxand is now represented in 48 countries. The tax practice of Gobert, Fest & Partners was founded in 2008 and employs four advisers.

Andrew Stals, a former tax and corporate partner of Clayton Utz in Sydney, will be one of Allen & Overy's founding partners when the firm opens its own offices in Australia on March 1. The firm announced that it had hired 17 partners from Stals' former firm and that tax would be one of its core practices. Allen & Overy will have offices in Sydney and Perth.

Simon Letherman has joined Shearman & Sterling as counsel in the firm's tax group. He will be based in the firm's London office. Letherman previously worked at Slaughter and May where he advised on the tax aspects of M&A, structured finance, private equity, insurance and outsourcing, financing and capital markets and property transactions.