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Gianmarco Monsellato and Sylvain Chevrier of Taj, a member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, answer commonly asked questions about the implementation of the new French documentation rules.

Citrix Systems, a provider of IT solutions, has announced it has settled with the IRS in the range of $12 million to $15 million over disputes about transfer pricing and intellectual property transfers.

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition $377 million Caravelle DHL Express Finance's French Parcel Business Bredin Prat Pierre-Henri Durand Acquisition $335 million QBE International Holdings Secura NV Slaughter & May Steve Edge Acquisition $316 million American Sugar Tate & Lyle's European Sugar Refining Business Shearman & Sterling Simon Letherman Ownership Stake Undisclosed Responsys Eservices Fenwick & West Jeff Vetter & Edgar Tirado Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead Manager/Arranger Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) IPO Undisclosed Ocado Group Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan Cazenove and UBS Allen & Overy Lydia Challen

Next year will herald a widescale period of change for tax in India. It will force tax directors from domestic and international companies. to completely reconsider their strategies and to seek efficiencies at all levels of their company's tax affairs.

Germany and France will ask the European Commission to consider a European financial market transaction tax after the plan for it to be introduced worldwide was largely dismissed by the G20.

The first part of the UK Finance Bill, which will enact several of the government's key tax reforms announced in last month's emergency budget, is being debated by MPs today as it receives its second reading in the House of Commons. If the Bill is passed, the corporate tax rate will be cut, while VAT and capital gains tax will rise.

Type of Agreement Country Country Date Signed Double Tax Agreement Barbados Panama June 25 2010 Double Tax Agreement Germany United Arab Emirates July 1 2010 Double Tax Agreement India Mauritius July 3 2010 Double Tax Agreement Ireland United Arab Emirates July 3 2010

The Brazilian Congress has passed thin capitalisation rules that will affect the deductibility of interest payments, among other things.

The Indonesian directorate general for tax (DGT) has reinvigorated the campaign to crack down on transfer pricing abuse by meeting with advisers from different firms and asking for input before new guidelines are released.

The development of the UK's £2 billion ($3.2 billion) video games industry is under threat after the new coalition government withdrew tax breaks promised to the sector by the previous administration.