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  • Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president, has announced a reduction in VAT.
  • The US Supreme Court has refused to adjudicate in two cases that centre on the economic substance doctrine of the Internal Revenue Code.
  • A rumour about the introduction of a 20% capital gains tax was behind the Shanghai stock market's biggest drop in a decade. Shares plummeted on China's biggest index by nearly 9% on Tuesday.
  • Jacky Matza, head of the Israel Tax Authority (ITA), has resigned following an investigation into departmental wrongdoing.
  • Singapore will slice two percentage points from the corporate rate, which will fall to 18%. Goods and services tax will rise by the same amount, from 5% to 7%.
  • The law firm has elected Robert Probasco to its partnership. Probasco deals mainly with IRS audits and appeals, as well as tax litigation.
  • Sir Michael Rake, KPMG's International's chairman, is to take over at BT, a UK telecoms company. Rake succeeds Sir Christopher Bland in September 2007.
  • FIN 48 rules do not achieve their aim and are too subjective, according to UK companies.
  • Eileen Mayer will move from her role as Office of Fraud / Bank Secrecy Act chief to become head of the Criminal Investigation Division. Mayer came to the IRS in January 2006 after 19 years at the US Attorney's Office in Washington, DC. She was deputy chief of the criminal division.
  • Russia has appointed Mikhail Mokretsov as chief of its tax authority, the Federal Tax Service (FTS). Mokretsov, formerly deputy head of the FTS, replaces Anatoly Serdyukov, who becomes defence minister.