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William Fry Tax Advisors (Taxand Ireland) and Taxand Scoops Eight Awards at the ITR Europe Awards 2011

William Fry Tax Advisors (Taxand Ireland) and Taxand has been voted ‘European Indirect Tax Firm of the Year 2011’ for the second year running and ‘European Tax Policy Firm of the Year’ by International Tax Review at its annual European Tax Awards in London on 18th May. 

Furthermore, Taxand has won five ‘National Tax Firm of the Year’ awards in Cyprus, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Turkey.  Taxand Belgium has also been awarded ‘Best Newcomer’.  Taxand was nominated for 29 awards in total.

Frédéric Donnedieu de Vabres, Chairman of Taxand commented: “Each year brings more awards for Taxand, regionally and nationally. Being shortlisted for just under half of the 69 awards this year clearly demonstrates Taxand’s ongoing market recognition for cross-border tax advice and winning eight of those really is testament to our drive for continuous client service excellence.  “Our year-on-year performance at these awards is indicative of our market penetration and the reputation we have formed over the last six years.”

Richard Baxter, Taxand Global Indirect Tax Service line leader said: “Taxand has worked on some groundbreaking international VAT and customs projects over the last year. We have delivered what our clients needed by being obsessively practical in approach and combining our traditional high-end strategic indirect tax capabilities with strong interim management and technology skills. It’s a particular pleasure to win this award for the second year running and is indicative of how strong the Taxand global indirect tax service line team has become.”

“Our ‘European Tax Policy Firm of the Year’ award win acknowledges Taxand’s EC & OECD programme which is designed to influence policy change for the benefit of our clients.  Our commitment to provide Taxand global responses to consultations and Taxander time on advisory panels has been recognised by this award,” said Frédéric Donnedieu de Vabres, Chairman of Taxand.

ABOUT TAXAND 
William Fry is the Irish member firm of the TAXAND global network of leading tax advisory firms represented in over 45 countries worldwide with over 2,000 tax professionals. The Firm has been Awarded “Irish Tax Firm of the Year 2009” at the International Tax Review European Tax Awards.

Taxand provides high quality, integrated tax advice worldwide. Our tax professionals, nearly 400 tax partners and over 2,000 tax advisors in nearly 50 countries – grasp both the fine points of tax and the broader strategic implications, helping you mitigate risk, manage your tax burden and drive the performance of your business.
We’re passionate about tax. We collaborate and share knowledge, capitalising on our collective expertise to provide you with high quality, tailored advice that helps relieve the pressures associated with making complex tax decisions.

We’re also independent—ensuring that you adhere both to best practice and to tax law and that we remain free from time-consuming audit-based conflict checks. This enables us to deliver practical advice, responsively.
Taxand has achieved worldwide market recognition. In the International Tax Review’s (ITR) World Tax 2011, over 95% of Taxand countries are ranked top.  32 Taxand countries were voted as in the ITR Tax Planning Survey 2011 and x countries were voted top in the ITR Transaction Tax Survey 2011.  At the ITR European Tax Awards 2011, Taxand won ‘European Indirect Tax Firm of the Year 2011’ and ‘European Tax Policy Firm of the Year’. Taxand also received ‘National Tax Firm of the Year’ awards for Cyprus, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Turkey and Taxand Belgium won ‘Best Newcomer’.

In 2010, Taxand won 4 regional awards including Asia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year, Asia Tax Policy Firm of the Year, Latin America Tax Disputes Firm of the Year and European Indirect Tax Firm of the Year. Taxand won a further 10 national awards and was nominated for some 27 ITR awards. In 2009 Taxand won 10 ITR awards in Europe, 5 in Asia and 3 in the Americas and was nominated for some 48 ITR awards.