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  • Sir George Quigley, a businessman, has said that the Northern Ireland corporate tax rate should be cut to match the Republic of Ireland levy of 12.5%. Following calls for a cut by Ian Paisley - a prominent Northern Ireland politician –at the end of June, Quigley told Gordon Brown, the UK chancellor of the exchequer, that a tax cut would stimulate economic growth.
  • The House of Lords, the upper house of the UK parliament, asked the European Court of Justice to make a preliminary ruling in the Marks & Spencer vs Her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs and Excise case on July 12. The case is about a disparity between VAT law in the UK and the EU.
  • UK businesses could get £100 million ($182 million) back after the Court of Appeal ruled that the UK's tax authorities should have let publisher Condé Nast claim for VAT overpayment for longer than the authorities allowed.
  • The 17 former partners, including David Rivkin who pleaded guilty in March, are to sue KPMG for their legal fees after a judge said US prosecutors had pushed the big-four firm to withhold legal fees from the defendants. Judge Lewis Kaplan said this had violated the defendants' rights to a fair trial.
  • Sue Bonney, the current chief operating officer of KPMG's UK tax service line, will replace Colin Cook on October 1 as head of the practice, when he becomes chief executive of the UK firm.
  • Adam Blakemore joins Cadwalader's London tax team from Allen & Overy as a partner. David Burke, formerly of Denton Wilde Sapte, has become a special counsel.
  • Jonathan Fisher QC will join the UK law firm in mid-September.
  • The six partners are Bridget Walsh, Claire Hooper, Fiona Sheffield, Jonathan Anderson, Ian Beer and Tim Steel. Both Hooper and Steel will work in international tax.
  • Sixth VAT Directive – Article 13B(f) – Exemption for games of chance – Scope – Activity of a call centre.
  • The Ministry of Finance and industry representatives are discussing amendments to the recent real estate tax changes following a 10% stock market fall for real estate companies, Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore reported. The real estate industry is unhappy about a switch from VAT to a transfer tax of up to 11%.