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Legal Media Group releases best tax advisers list and best transfer pricing advisers

taxabull — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:52:00 +0000

The Legal Media Group annually releases its Experts Guides list of best lawyers globally and in the US. The list also includes tax advisers and transfer pricing advisers. This list was announced a few days ago and features the who’s who of the industry (mainly those working at larger and mid-tier firms).

Please see this blurb from their methodology:

Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides series has been an invaluable and indispensable source of guidance for in-house counsel in large corporations worldwide, since its inception in 1994. These practice area guides are designed primarily for individuals who require access to pre-eminent practitioners in specific areas of law for the purpose of instruction on an international

basis.

Best of the best list

The lists are actually quite large, so we’ve decided to not include the whole thing. We can’t seem to find a list of Australian tax advisers on that list or transfering pricing specialists. We can only find a directory list. For general list of the Australian tax advisers go here.

We are curious, do people in industry look at these best of the best lists? And how much weight do you give them?

Australian Transfer Pricing directory list

From the Aus Tax team – your tax insider.

Tax Controversy Positions

taxabull — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:14:00 +0000

Seek wouldn’t let us link to the job ad anymore but we thought we would bring you a copy of the PWC tax controversy position before they took it down. We have it on good authority that:

“PWC had made 2 rounds of redundancies, affecting tax area in one of them and getting rid of lower levels, yet now they are hiring managers and senior managers from their seek ads. A bit of a tax controversy given couldn’t they have used existing staff to do the work”

Hey Seek / PWC, we’re doing you a favour! We are generating more interest for that position. Maybe someone will take on this poisoned chalice. For the second ad see below.

From the AusTax team – your tax insider.

Look no further for controversy than at PWC tax

taxabull — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Our Tax HR correspondent reported this hot tip over the news wire.

PWC are now hiring 2 tax controversy staff at management and senior consultant level. Don’t get us wrong, tax controversy is a great area to be in. It’s just that PWC let go over 100 staff recently from their Australian offices. Its tough times given the global economic crisis. Even some of our friends were laid off.

So how is PWC hiring two new staff?

The ad claims the following:

“As we continue to grow our Sydney Practice”
“Rapidly growing practice”
“Ambitious and fast growing team”

We would hardly think that these areas are growing or expanding if you have just laid off a significant proportion of your workforce. A bit hypocritical we think.

By way of background, tax controversy is a specialist and growing area. One of our colleagues works in this area and has told us in the past that this position deals with tax litigation, tax audit and negotiation with the ATO.

In later posts, we will confirm with our sources regarding the exact number of staff that PWC and throughout the Big 4 industry has laid off.

From The AusTax team.