Direct Tax

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This content is from: Germany

German update: Implementing EU guidelines into German law

By the end of 2004 Germany will have enacted two bills transposing major EU secondary legislation into German law
December 21 2004
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US regulators propose tighter rules for tax services

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the US accounting watchdog established following corporate scandals such as Enron and WorldCom, has released proposals that would for the first time ban firms fro...
December 21 2004
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Life sciences should coordinate tax and supply chain managment

European life sciences companies can use tax-effective supply chain management (TESCM) to save significant amounts of money
December 21 2004
This content is from: South Korea

Deloitte finalizes South Korean merger

Deloitte & Touche/Hana have concluded their merger negotiations with Anjin Deloitte
December 21 2004
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EU update: Dutch wealth tax relief may contravene EC law

The Advocate General has given an opinion in a case known as “D” that certian wealth tax relief in the Netherlands is contrary to EC law as it was only available to Dutch residents or under certain double tax treaty p...
December 21 2004
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Linklaters loses German tax partner

Hermann Eber-Huber, a former tax partner with Linklaters in Frankfurt, has joined the boutique law firm Smeets Haas Wolff (SHW)
December 21 2004
This content is from: Singapore

Nand Singh Gandhi joins Allen & Gledhill

One of Singapore’s leading tax litigators has decided to close his own firm and move to one of the city-state’s biggest corporate and financial law firms
December 21 2004
This content is from: Australia

Australian update: A political brew for tax reform recipes

The re-election of the coalition government has buoyed the business community with heightened expectation of further tax reforms
December 12 2004
This content is from: Australia

Blake Dawson Waldron hires Deloitte tax partner

Duncan Baxter, a former senior partner at Deloitte in Australia has left the big four firm to join Blake Dawson Waldron (BDW), the international law firm. Baxter, who specializes in corporate and international tax, wi...
December 12 2004
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UK government reviews tax authority powers

The UK government has announced a wide-ranging review of the powers of the country’s tax authorities ahead of the merger in 2005 between Customs & Excise and the Inland Revenue to create HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
December 12 2004
This content is from: Brazil

Brazilian update: Tax benefits on fixed assets purchases

On September 30 2004 the Brazilian authorities issued Provisional Measure 219 (PM 219), which granted tax benefits on purchases of fixed assets
December 12 2004
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Dorsey & Whitney reshuffles before ECJ tax cases

As the UK High Court is about to give details of its referral of a thin-capitalization group litigation order to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Philip Martin, formerly deputy head of tax at retailer Marks & Spen...
December 12 2004
This content is from: Canada

Canadian update: Good news for back-to-back cross-border loans

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has issued a series of favourable tax rulings in which it concluded that Canadian domestic anti-avoidance legislation would not apply to certain proposed transactions involving back-to-...
December 12 2004
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Big firm back-up attracts tax litigators

The increasing aggression of the Canadian tax authorities has led to higher-value disputes and prompted two tax litigation specialists to leave their boutique firm to rejoin Stikeman Elliott, one of the country’s larg...
December 06 2004
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Covington & Burling snares Deloitte tax partner

William Chip, an international tax and transfer-pricing specialist, has left the big-four firm Deloitte to join Covington & Burling, the Washington, DC law firm
December 06 2004
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PricewaterhouseCoopers rehires transfer-pricing specialist

Michael Durst, formerly of the US law firm King & Spalding, has rejoined PricewaterhouseCoopers’ transfer-pricing practice
December 06 2004
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Lords fail to achieve clarity on tax avoidance

Two decisions from the House of Lords, the UK’s highest court, have reinforced past verdicts on tax avoidance in the UK
December 06 2004

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