Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based international tax and legal services entity, said that an accounting services firm in Kuwait will adopt the Andersen Tax name going forward, as it becomes a fully-fledged member of the Andersen group.

Jersey Finance, the globally-focused marketing arm for Jersey’s financial services industry, has named Philip A. Pirecki to head up a new representative office it plans to open in New York later this year.

 The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said on Wednesday that it "will not challenge" the claiming of foreign tax credits against certain controversial payments that potentially thousands of American expatriates resident in France have been paying for years, and noted that taxpayers who wish to file a claim for refund of U.S. tax…

The International Accounting Standards Board has published a package of proposed amendments to its so-called insurance contract standard, IFRS 17, for consultation – in response, it’s said, to industry concerns.