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Manuel Candal and his partners in Candal Taxand give a summary of the main features of the Venezuelan tax system

International Tax Review co-publishes the eighth edition of its Indirect Taxes Guide with leading tax advisers: Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, Atoz – Taxand, Ernst & Young, Eurofast Global, HNP Taxand, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers. The guide is the 55th in the Tax Reference Library series, which has also covered other topics such as transfer pricing, tax management in companies and outsourcing. They are designed to give in-house tax counsel the most cutting-edge advice for planning their corporation's tax strategy and structuring transactions in these fields. More are on the way.

By Jorge Gebhardt, Carlos Casanovas, Gustavo Consoli, Ariel Becher, Ernst & Young, Argentina

Countries in Latin America took different fiscal options to cope with the economic downturn. Some pushed tax rates up, others took the opposite course, reports Erin Kelechava

By Ralph Cunningham in Rome

President Correa hopes the tax cut will stabilise Ecuador's economy Source: Agencia Brasil Ecuador's president Rafael Correa agreed to a government proposal on August 31 2010 that would cut the corporate income tax rate by three percentage points in an effort to bolster what tax lawyers say is a see-sawing economy.

A monthly commentary on the notable facts, figures and goings-on in the tax world. Suitable items should be sent to taxrelief@euromoneyplc.com

The European Commission is right to pursue a coherent and uniform application of the VAT grouping option, but how it is choosing to do it is not, believe Daniel Keller, Christian Schubert of PwC Germany and Sjoerd Janssen of and Pwc in the Netherlands

By Alex Fischer and Andrés Carey, Carey y Cia, Chile

A value added tax may be coming to the US, but taxpayers should be aware that they already may be subject to taxes that they may not know about, explains Mark McCormick of Alvarez & Marsal Taxand.