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  • Bill Clinton, the former US president, made a speech supporting Proposition 87 – a tax aimed at reducing oil use in California. Clinton was speaking to students and staff at the University of California at Los Angeles on October 13. California will vote on the proposition on November 7.
  • Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's finance minister, said that businesses working in India must now e-file income tax returns. The deadline for last year's returns is October 31.
  • The Chartered Institute of Directors has called for Gordon Brown, the UK's chancellor of the exchequer, to introduce a taxpayers' charter of rights and duties in next April's budget.
  • Grant Clowery, a transfer pricing specialist, has set up consultancy firm Ceteris' Washington DC office.
  • Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs issued guidance notes on the case between Indofood, a Thai food company, and JPMorgan Chase, a bank, following a Court of Appeal judgement in March. The case concerns Indofood's redemption of bonds sold through a Mauritian special purpose vehicle because of the withholding tax rate increasing above 10%. JPMorgan Chase, the bond trustee, argued that Indofood should have honoured the bonds and moved them to a Dutch special purpose vehicle to avoid the higher withholding tax.
  • Finance minister Peer Steinbrueck said Germany probably will increase the withholding tax rate to 25% a year later than expected in 2009. Germany originally proposed a top 30% rate for 2008.
  • Rob Withecombe has become head of tax at Grant Thornton's London office. Former incumbent Ian Evans is now global head of tax, a newly created position, of Grant Thornton International.
  • OECD member economies have seen a rise in tax revenues because of strong economic growth according to the organization's Revenue Statistics publication. The revenue rises come in spite of lower tax rates.
  • Jim Jooma has joined MRI Moores Rowland, a London-based firm of tax and accounting advisers, as head of tax.
  • Mike Boyle, corporate vice president of finance at the world's largest software company and a former president of the Tax Executives Institute, will leave at the end of this month to spend more time with his family. Bill Sample will replace Boyle.