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Roberto Haddad has joined KPMG in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Haddad came from five years at Branco Consultores, where he one of the founding partners. Prior to this, Haddad worked at Arthur Andersen for nine years, until the firm's dissolution in 2001. Haddad has expertise in international tax and merger & acquisitions advice.

A Democrat and a Republican are working together to spur US tax reform. Noam Neusner and Lawrence Haas, both communications directors to the Budget offices of George W Bush and Bill Clinton respectively, have endorsed together a consumption-based tax system in the US. Neuman and Haas said a consumption-based tax would "please conservatives who believe a consumption tax would spur savings and investment, as well as liberals who think the nation needs more revenue to strengthen Social Security and Medicare," in an article for the Baltimore Sun.

Canadian finance minister Jim Flaherty has said Canadian income trusts, which can avoid taxes on profit distribution, will be allowed to double in size between now and 2011.

Nearly half of 3000 respondents to a Tax Council Policy Institute (TCPI) survey indicated they do not yet know what financial impact FIN 48 will have on their companies' bottom line.

European pension funds and charities are expected to be among the first to benefit from the European Court of Justice's (ECJ's) Denkavit judgment.

State aid – Aid schemes – Incompatibility with the common market – Time-limit for execution of the Commission’s decisions – Abolition of aid schemes – Cancellation of outstanding aid – Recovery of aid made available – Absolute impossibility of giving effect to a decision.

Freedom of establishment – Corporation tax – Payment of dividends – Exemption for dividends paid to resident companies – Withholding tax levied on dividends paid to non-resident companies – Double taxation convention – Possibility of setting off the amount withheld against tax due in another member state.

Sixth VAT Directive – Exemptions – Article 13A(1)(e) – Scope of the exemption – Manufacture and repair of dental prostheses by an intermediary who does not have the status of dentist or dental technician – Subcontracting to a dental technician.

Freedom of establishment; Corporation tax; Payment of dividends; Exemption for dividends paid to resident companies; Withholding tax levied on dividends paid to non-resident companies; Double taxation convention; Possibility of setting off the amount withheld against tax due in another Member State;

Peter Orszag, the co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture between the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution in Washington, has been nominated to become director of the Congressional Budget Office