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  • Michael Cullen, New Zealand's deputy prime minister and finance minister, predicted the business tax review that the government are now conducting would lead to a lower corporate tax rate. Cullen also said exporters were likely to see preferential levies.
  • The US Treasury has published a plan to deal with the tax gap.
  • The European Court of Justice upheld an EU Commission verdict that tax cuts in the Azores islands in the mid-Atlantic went against EU law. Portugal had told the Azores it could cut income and corporate taxes to handle economic difficulties in 1999. The EU Commission said in 2002 that the tax cuts were illegal because they overcompensated for the economic difficulties.
  • The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that regarding Cadbury-Schweppes' Irish subsidiary, the UK's CFC rules contravene EU law on freedom of establishment. Unless the UK authorities can show that the motive test – part of the UK's current CFC rules relating to whether a subsidiary has real economic purpose– is in line with the ECJ judgment. Germany and Sweden may also have to change their CFC legislation to comply with the ruling.
  • US firm Alvarez & Marsal and Australian-headquartered McGrath Nicol + Partners announced their affiliation on September 12.
  • Jason Rinsky has joined DRS Technologies in New Jersey as senior vice-president, corporate taxation. He was with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
  • Lovells, a UK law firm, is boosting its tax strength in New York with the appointment of Jason Kaplan, formerly of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, as a partner
  • Mike Lippman, ex-state and local taxes head at KPMG, is the new vice-president of the technical and strategic tax services division at Liquid Engines.
  • The OECD's forum on tax administration said it will further develop a directory of aggressive tax planning strategies, examine the role of tax professionals from law and accounting firms in non-compliance, expand the 2004 corporate governance guidelines and improve the international tax training of officials to combat non-compliance. The forum met in Korea last week.
  • Loughlin Hickey, global head of tax at KPMG, said governments are collaborating more than ever before on tax matters to increase cross-border compliance but that companies leading the way in tax policy will see opportunities in this increased level of scrutiny. Hickey was speaking at a KPMG conference in Buenos Aires attended by representatives of multinational companies.