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Jeremy Spector, a specialist in public finance tax, has become a member of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo in its New York office. He was formerly a partner of Blank Rome. His clients include state and local governments, agencies and authorities, non-profit corporations, institutional investors, service providers, bond trustees and underwriters

Free movement of capital – Taxation of dividends – Exemption from tax of dividends from shares in companies established in the member state – Concession in respect of tax deducted at source on dividends from shares in companies established in another member state – Limitation of that concession to the amount which a resident shareholder could offset by virtue of a convention for the prevention of double taxation – Limitation of that concession by reference to the holdings of non-resident shareholders in the capital of the investment company.

Jane Kennedy, the new financial secretary to the Treasury, will have overall responsibility for the tax system in the government of Gordon Brown, the new British prime minister

Italy's prime minister Romano Prodi has said that projected tax cuts will be withheld until tax evasion is slashed. He said in Rome that evasion had reached 'indecent proportions'.

Hungary's corporate taxation system will be reviewed and simplified next year. The country's finance minister said that this will include cuts in some business taxes.

Energy trusts based in the Canadian province of Alberta are continuing to protest against measures to make them pay corporate tax like standard companies. A new campaign was launched by the Coalition of Canadian Energy Trusts (CCET) on June 25 to "demand greater accountability and honesty from the federal government."

The Canadian revenue authority has issued a taxpayer's charter. This suggests that taxpayers would have certain commitments from the taxman. Chris Sanger, head of tax policy at Ernst & Young in the UK, speculates on what might be in a new UK version

Rob Withecombe, head of tax at Grant Thornton UK, is sceptical about the outcome of an OECD project which will risk-assess tax advisers

Ruth Donaldson Ernst & Young has established a dedicated international tax and transfer pricing practice focused on the middle market. It says there is growing demand for these services as clients become more global and tax laws become increasingly complex. The team will serve principally sub - FTSE 250 and AIM listed companies and large privates.

Sean Foley US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued an informed compliance publication (ICP) containing valuable guidance on related parties pricing (Determining the Acceptability of Transaction Value for Related Party Transactions). As part of the released guidance, CBP explicitly expressed its position on the use of Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) and transfer pricing studies to support a Customs arm's length price, as discussed below.