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  • Less than one in five tax departments at some of the world's largest firms have tax software linked to financial accounting systems, a KPMG survey has found. This is despite almost three-quarters of tax executives surveyed believing they need links their company's accounting systems or better integration of tax technology. KPMG surveyed 120 senior tax executives from multinational corporations.
  • Vera Pastikova has joined Lovells' Prague tax practice from Mazars, where she was responsible for corporate income tax, real estate tax and VAT.
  • The European Commission plans to continue to modernize its customs and fiscal procedures if its proposal to renew the Customs 2007 and Fiscalis 2008 programmes from the end of 2008 to 2013 is accepted
  • Spain's government will cut 5 percentage points off the corporate income tax rate in two to three years not five years, as was originally proposed. Spain announced on January 20 that the corporate rate would be reduced from 35% to 30% by 2011.
  • The German Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, passed the increase of three percentage points on May 19. The hike, if passed by the upper house – the Bundesrat, will bring the German VAT rate to 19%. At almost one-fifth, it is the biggest tax increase since the last World War.
  • William Colgin Jr has joined Morgan Lewis' Palo Alto practice from Fenwick & West. Colgin, who will be a partner at the firm, will focus his practice on federal tax controversy.
  • George W Bush signed the tax reconciliation bill on May 17. The bill sees the US cancel the foreign sales corporation/extra territorial income (FSC/ETI) tax benefits, which the EU had wanted scrapped. The bill also proposes a two-year extension to the subpart F exception for active financing and insurance income. There is also a new subpart F exception for certain cross-border payments.
  • Indirect taxes on the raising of capital – Directive 69/335/EEC – Article 7(1)(b) and (bb) – Capital duty – Exemption – Requirements – Retention for a period of five years of shares acquired.
  • Victor Miesel and Vinay Kapoor have joined the transfer pricing practice of Duff & Phelps, the financial advisory firm, in the New York office.
  • Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez raised royalty taxes for energy companies working in the oil-rich Orinoco belt from 16.6% to 33.3% on May 7. Chávez believes that the tax hike will bring $885 million in extra revenue.