December 2008 / January 2009

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Tax havens refuse to take the blame for economic woes

Vodafone loses Indian capital gains litigation

Ireland is now ready for cross-border mergers

Parliament agrees to a more attractive regime for SICARs

Electronic invoicing in Mexico

Incoming government faces tough choices

Amendments to Polish VAT Act

Budget bill 2009 - tax proposals

Tax developments for 2009

New Revenue bill comes into force

Introduction of advance ruling programme

New Spanish regulations on transfer pricing

Credit for foreign taxes - suggested amendments

Switzerland's taxation of equity-based participation plans postponed again

Taxation on share considerations clarified

UK's pre-budget report

New directive on auditing US withholding agents

IRS liberalises short-term obligation exception under section 956

Who's worked on the biggest deals

Former IRS director joins Hartford Financial Services

EY's head of tax quits for PwC

Economic Laws picks new head of tax

PwC hires partner in IRS service team

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr poaches two from Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs

Garrigues elects new partners

Editorial

Tax relief

UK government announces exemption on foreign profits

Canadian companies to pay less tax next year

Withholding tax exemption boosts Irish structured finance industry

China transforms VAT regime

Opinions differ on Russian tax cut

Governments sign five tax treaties

Tax chiefs use experience to deal with economic turmoil

Transfer pricing brings Russia onto world stage

Spain unveils own version of Reits

New law changes rules for Sicars

Companies look for help through financial crisis

Winners take all

Sweden makes unpopular move to limit deductions

High Court raises doubts about UK dividend tax

AMEC tax chief wants CFC reform

Local tax burden rises

ATO focuses on inappropriate shifting of business losses into Australia

Additional new regulations for the tax on financial transactions

Latest on Canada - US treaty amendments

VAT reform takes a major step forward

Amendments to the act on the taxation of shareholders in CFCs

New legislation on transfer pricing postponed again

German court ignores US partnership election of Florida LLC

Ruling on constitution of a fixed place permanent establishment

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