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  • The Bank of China initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was the largest ever in China with a value of $9.7 billion. As Claire Jones found out, dealing with US passive foreign investment company rules was the biggest obstacle the tax advisers on the transaction had to overcome
  • Taxpayers and the European Commission were on opposing sides in the European Court of Justice case on Belgium's coordination centre regime and both came out just about even after the decision.
  • The European Council has reacted positively to the announcement by László Kovács, EU commissioner for taxation and customs union, that the EU must try harder to combat tax fraud. The Council aims to agree to a set of proposals by the end of the year.
  • The big-four professional services firms are planning to increase their China and Hong Kong tax staff over the next year to match demand brought about the booming economies in both places.
  • Avraham Hirschson, Israel's finance minister, said VAT will fall by 6% from 16.5% to 15.5% on July 1. Hirschson said the cut will raise revenues by increasing spending.
  • The EU's council of economics and finance ministers agreed to renew the value-added tax arrangements for e-commerce services, including taxing broadcasting services and certain electronically-supplied services from third countries, for the July 1 2006 – December 31 2006 period, at its meeting on June 7.
  • EU member states have implemented the EC Interest and Royalties Directive on time, but have differed in their interpretation of key provisions, according to an independent survey.
  • Mark Everson, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner - noted four issues in his June 13 speech to Senate Finance Committee on compliance concerns relative to large and mid-size businesses. Everson said globalization, the increasing complexity of law and business transactions, and the growing book tax gap - between after-tax profits and declared taxable income – had all created a more challenging climate for the IRS.
  • Appleby Spurling Hunter and Bailhache Labesse, two leading offshore firms, are to merge on September 1 to create what the two claim is "the only offshore provider of legal, fiduciary and administrative services with a major foothold in four of the world's leading offshore business centres – Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Jersey".
  • Andy Todd, tax director at Aviva's life insurance group, will join Deloitte's UK insurance industry practice as a tax partner in September. Before joining Aviva, Todd was at Arthur Andersen