March 2006

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Tax directors swamped with compliance

Tax advisers slam proposal to change independence rules

Finance ministry begins tax reform

New tax treaty between Poland and Sweden

Courts extend application of Russian transfer pricing rules

Court treats royalties as capital expenditure

Government plans to cut corporate tax rate and scrap credits

Why CFC rules may be incompatible with EC law

HMRC fails to prove residence in Wood v Holden

Notice limits foreign tax credit rules in software licensing deals

IRS issues new regulations for subpart F income of insurance companies

Ex-Andersen partners become True Partners

Ballentine Barbera opens in NY

MOPs adds partner

LECG loses another TP specialist in London

Head of international tax leaves Lovells

Mayo joins Paul Weiss

Three new economists for Baker & McKenzie

Alston & Bird LLP

Thorsteinssons LLP

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Deloitte & Touche Tax Technologies

Fenwick & West LLP

FTI Transfer Pricing Services

Goodmans LLP

Ogilvy Renault LLP

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Tax Executives Institute

Ernst & Young

Baker & McKenzie

The need for corporate tax review is urgent

NZ minister calls for business tax reform

Axa brings tax dispute to court

More Aussie dollars for tax abuse

GAAR on the way to South Africa

Investment fund rules reach House of Commons

US suggest leniency to tax shelter promoters

WTO sides with EU in FSC/ETI dispute

Luxembourg's 1929 law under EU spotlight

Lords rule for Revenue against Pirelli

New unit would probe tax policy changes

UBS wins tax discrimination case

UK fails to keep up with low-tax rivals

European Court strikes down abusive transactions

Who's worked on the biggest deals

Getting the tax issues right in South-East Asia

Tax reforms could force foreign companies to restructure

How tax departments can profit from new computer architecture

Japan unveils substantial tax reform proposals

Rulings body announces first tax transparency verdicts

How to deal with VAT in the new regulatory environment

Dividends can be conduit foreign income

Austria starts year with new double tax treaties

Deductibility of input value-added tax on cars revised by January legislation

Real forces temporary changes to transfer pricing rules

Dividend tax rate cut to offset treatment of income trusts

IRS cannot assess value of non-Chilean reorganization

Authorities extend scope of reinvestment rebate

Court provides opportunity to obtain VAT refund on French motorway tolls

Draft guidance on thin-cap rules on intra-group share acquisitions comes out

India is central to meaning of "resident" in the Gulf

Tax changes reinforce favourable position

Tax reforms could change corporate reorganization and M&A rules

How direct and indirect systems are changing

Mexico and US agree changes on fiscally transparent entities under treaty

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