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  • Vertex, a tax software company, said that its study - involving over 280 interviews of audit and tax specialists - has found 78% of audit officials believe effective automation leads to easier information access and greater accuracy and efficiency for taxpayers.
  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysia's prime minister, said corporate tax will fall by two percentage points in his September 1 budget speech. The levy will be cut from 28% to 27% in 2007, then to 26% in 2008.
  • The US Treasury believes it will refund about $13 billion to telephone customers - including businesses - who were charged a 3% federal tax on calls, according to newspaper reports. Customers affected will get a $30 to $60 refund next year. The levy originated from the Spanish American war at the end of the 19th century and was imposed as a luxury tax.
  • The new treaty includes capital gains protection on sales of equity; preferential withholding tax rates of either 5% or 10% on dividends, and withholding rates as low as 7% for royalties; the authority to make transfer pricing adjustments; and a residence article including all Hong Kong incorporated and managed businesses. Treaty talks began almost 18 months ago on March 9 2005. The treaty was signed on August 21.
  • Guy Kersch, the European tax counsel for the pharmaceuticals company, will move into private practice on September 11. Kersch will help develop Grant Thornton's transfer pricing practice.
  • Pitney Bowes, a communications company, has said it will pay the IRS $1.1 billion - mostly charged for the sale of its Capital Services business - over the next six months.
  • French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel opened its office in Kiev, the Ukraine's capital, on September 4. A tax practice will be established here within six months.
  • Guidance on the treatment of cost sharing as well as mergers involving foreign companies are two of the proposals in the US Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) and Treasury Department's Priority Guidance Plan that may affect international tax executives in the coming months.
  • Based on the results of the pilot project, the New Salary Certificate Working Group, a mixed working group of the Swiss trade associations and the Swiss tax administration, unanimously recommended the following to the Swiss Tax Conference:
  • The Oxford Centre for Business Taxation has appointed Mike Devereux, an economist, as its first director. Ralph Cunningham spoke to the new appointment about the work that will be done in Oxford and his hopes for how it can help policy makers