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  • Miguel Klingenberg, who is the head of the Spanish tax department, will become the managing partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's two Spainish offices on August 1.
  • The government released a discussion document last week, which featured a range of options on how to change the business tax regime – including cutting the corporate tax rate from 33% to 30%. Michael Cullen, New Zealand's finance minister, said a corporate tax cut would make New Zealand's economy more competitive with Australia. Australia's corporate tax rate is now 30%.
  • The report details the effects of George W Bush's proposals to extend until 2010 certain types of tax relief brought in 2001 and 2003, including lower dividend and capital gains tax rates.
  • Canadian law firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg has expanded its New York practice with the hire of partner Abraham Leitner. Leitner was at Roberts and Holland before joining the firm.
  • Alberto Carrasquilla, Columbia's finance minister, proposed a corporate tax cut of six and a half percentage points from 38.5% to 32% on Friday. The cut would be financed by a new VAT levy on foods such as potatoes and rice. It is expected that there will be much opposition to the new levy because poverty is so high in the jurisdiction.
  • Michael Cornett, a partner, and Douglas McHoney, a senior associate, joined the US mid-west firm on July 25. Before coming to Polsinelli, Cornett was at Miller & Chevalier and the Internal Revenue Service. McHoney practiced at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was an international tax services tax director.
  • Mia Mottley, Barbados's minister of economic affairs, said that the levy would fall by a fifth from 25% to 20%.
  • The European Commission has complaints about aspects of the VAT system in Germany, Greece, Ireland and Italy.
  • Tim Reichert became managing director of Duff & Phelps's Denver transfer pricing practice on July 20. Reichert was at Ernst & Young before joining his new firm.
  • The EU Commission has said the reverse charge schemes, which sought to cut VAT fraud, cannot be implemented because they are not in line with EU law.