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  • The Tax Reform Commission – set up by the UK's opposition party the Conservatives, has proposed slashing the corporate tax rate by five percentage points from 30% to 25%. The Commission's report calls for £21 billion worth of tax cuts. But David Cameron, the party leader, is not expected to fully endorse the report.
  • Bulgaria will knock one-third off its corporate levy, which is now 15%, in January 2007. Bulgaria will join the EU at the start of next year, and it is hoped that the cut will encourage pan-European investment.
  • Anton Hume, formerly of Grant Thornton, has rejoined his old firm BDO Stoy Hayward as head of transfer pricing after an 11-year absence.
  • Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has published guidelines on new tests that managers of offshore investment funds will have to satisfy to retain their tax-free status. Companies have until January 12 2007 to comment on the guidelines, which are in draft form.
  • The US Senate Finance Committee has published Additional Options To Improve Tax Compliance, the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Taxation for closing the tax gap - the difference between what the IRS thinks it's owed and what it collects. The tax gap is thought to be $345 billion.
  • The US and the UK signed a competent authority agreement under the 2001 US-UK double taxation convention to prevent double taxation and evasion of income and capital gains taxes.
  • 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.