I find this quite staggering, but HMRC in their wisdom are launching a TV advertising campaign this evening, encouraging people to inform on suspected tax dodgers. There is a whistle-blowing hotline that can be contacted if you suspect someone of cheating the system.
I have no doubt that this hotline will be abused to wreak […]
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary have announced 59 of their lawyers have been promoted worldwide to partner status. This includes a new tax partner for the Milan office, Nicola Zeni.
A new tax site was launched this week, called TotallyTax.com. The site aims to be the largest tax sites directory on the net and contains tax links and content that will be of relevance to tax professionals, accountants, the general public, job seekers, tax recruiters and firms.
It is free to advertise on the site […]
PAETEC Communications Inc. has hired Keith Thorp as vice president of tax. He previously worked as U.S. head of tax for UCB Group; prior to that, he was a senior tax manager KPMG
A new tax conferences business as been launched in the UK called Longmark. The company focuses on delivering tax conferences in the North of England, where traditionally these have always taken place in London.
Longmark’s directors, Mark Fink and Mike Longman, are both Chartered Accountants and Chartered Tax Advisors and were formerly tax partners […]
Brian Cromwell (ex Ballentine Barbera), Phil Carmichael (ex KPMG) and Michelle Martinez (ex KPMG) are all senior economists joining Baker’s Global Transfer Pricing Practice. These hires come on the back of recent appointments into the group in London and Singapore.
Attention all VAT and GST experts out there. If you were planning to relocate to Malaysia in anticipation of their new GST system, you should unpack your bags. The planned start date was 1 Jan 2007 but this has now been postponed to an unspecified date.
The US firm of Deloitte has hired Bill Ziegler as National Talent Acquisition Leader. He joins from Accenture where he was Global Sourcing Leader.
Michael Wilson is a Canadian politician who will soon be their US Ambassador. He also happens to be the man responsible for the introduction of Good and Services Tax. Little bit of history for you !
Vulcan Materials, the US producer of construction aggregates and a member of the S&P 500 index, has announced that James O’Brien is the new VP of Tax. He replaces Terry Reese who is retiring. Mr O’Brien was formerly Chief Tax Officer at the Eastman Kodak Company.
Another new hire for BNB in the West Midlands. Having taken on Denis Holly at the end of last year, the firm has announced that they have welcomed Alan Long into the fold. The firm specialises in tax investigations and Mr Long has extensive experience of tax prosecutions gained at the Inland Revenue.
Dodd & Co have promoted Bevan Osgood to tax partner. He is the firm’s 3rd tax partner which is pretty impressive bearing in mind the firm has only 9 partners in total. Dodd & Co have 100 staff spread across 3 offices in Cumbria.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore has hired Andrew Needham from Willkie Farr & Gallagher. What is unusual about this appointment is that he is the first lateral partner hire in more than 60 years. The last lateral at the firm was Roswell Magill who became a Cravath tax partner in 1943. Mr Needham does have […]
Tacoma, the Czech consulting and auditing firm, has hired Dita Sulcova to lead their tax function. Dita is 33 years old and specialises in M&A, TP, international tax and financial products. Her background to date has been with the law firms Linklaters and Vorlickova & Partners.
Roy Ramsbottom has been elected as the new chairman of the ICAEW’s Farming and Rural Business Group . He is a senior partner with Murray Smith, based in Cheshire.
Roy qualified in 1968 and has specialised his career in the agricultural sector. He is a leading figure in the complex world of agricultural taxation and […]
The drift of senior tax professionals from Chiltern to Vantis continues.
Don Mavin joins Vantis to launch a new team focussing on Customs investigations and litigation. He had been with Chiltern since June 2001 when he merged his own practice into WJB Chiltern plc.
Vantis’ tax planning team was launched by Roy Faichney who […]
Interesting opportunity for a Group FD (designate) to join UTV Group over in Belfast. The role is being handled by Trevor Hinds at PwC Search & Selection.
RealNetworks, owner of RealPlayer, has announced that Michael Eggers is to be the new CFO, succeeding Roy Goodman. Eggers has been with the company since 1997. Before that he was with KPMG.
Great story coming out of New Brunswick, Canada today.
NB Power, a Crown corporation, was formerly not required to pay taxes. However, in 2005 the province decided that it should act like a proper business and introduced a law to force it to pay the equivalent of income (corporation) tax.
NB Power decided […]
Berjinder Singh, formerly the chairman of the (Indian) Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has been named as the new chairman of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission.
Singaporean law firm, WongPartnership, has hit the limelight by luring the country’s chief legal officer from the Revenue. Yew Kwong has spent 30 years with the Inland Revenue and has been involved in some high profile tax cases. Quite a coup for the firm.
A sad story from Australia where KPMG partner, Bernard Salt, is launching his new book The Big Picture. Mr Salt is a demographer and his research indicates that the most eligible Australian bachelors ie straight, single and earning a decent wedge, are accountants.
The survey analysed 1.3 million men aged between 25 and 34 and […]