February 2011

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Danger ahead

Policy options create double taxation risk for financial services

OECD report on revenue statistics plays up role of green taxes

Lack of consensus for Bowles/Simpson plan is no surprise

Authorities lose appeal in GE Capital Canada case

Thin capitalisation in New Zealand

Saudi Arabia introduces participation exemption

European Court favours taxpayers in Weald Leasing and RBS Deutschland

Telecommunications company clobbered for unpaid taxes

Russian delays new transfer pricing rules

Couturier founds new firm

Akin Gump unveil new tax partners

Bingham elects Whitehurst as partner

Bjornholm leaves Bech-Bruun

De Pardieu adds to partners

Loi made parntner at DFDL Mekong

Gide promotes Jolly

Hodge gets top UK tax job at Deloitte

BDO hires tax director in Chicago

Reed Smith adds Fox to tax group

Mattos Filho appoints Guzman as tax partner

Tax developments to look out for in 2011

Running out of options: Double taxation heightens bank levy risks

Canada court shatters trust arrangements

Hopes rise for stable transfer pricing in 2011

Canada's treaty with India begins to pay off

Taxpayers face challenging future in the UAE

BP works through solar tax problems

India searches for GAAR best practices

Changes to Portuguese participation exemption

Challenges with compound interest in VAT claims

ATO elaborates on gains made by foreign private equity investors

Belgian tax administration issues circular on reporting obligation for payments to tax havens

The key features of the VAT system

Spanish ETVEs temporarily excluded from the privileged tax regimes list

Amendments to Corporate Income Tax Act

Federal Court of Appeal decision applies test to determine residence of trusts

Chilean income tax treatment applicable to derivatives

Amendments to Cyprus tax legislation

Court rules on Finnish participation exemption

New opportunities to reclaim French withholding tax suffered on portfolio investments

Further bar on capital rules

Constitution of a PE through a subsidiary

Tax changes for 2011

Withholding taxes in FYR Macedonia

Panama and Bahrain: two new treaties and counting

Taxation of construction companies and their services

Tax compliance strategies

How Norway’s courts have been dealing with transfer pricing documentation

Changes in the Income Tax Acts

Transfer pricing growing in importance

Spain: Tax measures to foster investment and job creation

Thailand: Mistakes when hiring foreign staff

Tax is key to Turkey’s appeal to real estate investors

New codified tax statute is enacted

US Inbound: Industries react to FATCA notice in comment letters

US Outbound: New guidance on application of foreign tax credit splitter rules to pre-2011 taxes

Tax relief

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