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Commission of the European Communities v Council of the European Union

Regulation (EC) No 1798/2003 – Directive 2003/93/EC – Choice of legal basis.

January 26 2006

Chilean law firm loses tax team to PricewaterhouseCoopers

The tax team of Barros & Letelier, a law firm in Santiago, has moved to PricewaterhouseCoopers in the same city. Led by Francisco Selamé, it also comprises Astrid Schudeck, Francisca de la Maza and Sandra Benedetto

January 24 2006

Real estate specialist joins Alvarez & Marsal

Frank Walker has joined Alvarez & Marsal Tax Advisory Services as a managing director in the firm's Atlanta office. He specializes in the real estate, hospitality and construction industries

January 24 2006

Caplin & Drysdale hires Robert Green from IRS

Robert Green has left the US Internal Revenue Service to become a member of Caplin & Drysdale's international tax practice in its Washington, DC office. As director, international, at the IRS, he was responsible for the US' cross-border negotiations and controversies with its treaty partners and dealt with other issues such as cost sharing

January 24 2006

Yukos shares fall after fresh tax demand

Shares in Yukos, the Russian oil company, fell by 16% on January 19 after the Russian government demanded R107 billion, or $3.8 billion in back taxes

January 23 2006

Baker & McKenzie appoints UK head of transfer pricing

Richard Fletcher, a director of LECG, an economic advisory firm, has joined Baker & McKenzie, a law firm, in London as head of UK transfer pricing. He is not a lawyer and will be the equivalent of a partner in the corporate tax group. The appointment comes shortly after Massimo Giaconia's move to Baker & McKenzie's tax practice in Milan. Giaconia was the tax managing partner of Ernst & Young in Italy. Two others from Ernst & Young joined Baker & McKenzie in Milan as associates

January 23 2006

Employers want NZ tax relief

Business NZ, the biggest representative business organization in New Zealand, has called on the government there to introduce tax relief to boost low business confidence. Click here for the Business New Zealand opinion

January 23 2006

Cisco tax man leaves for Ernst & Young

Jeffrey Levenstam has resigned as Cisco Systems' senior director of international tax and customs, to become a member of Ernst & Young's international tax services group in San Francisco. Lisa Peschcke-Koedt, has left Agilent Technologies, where she was vice-president for global tax, to replace Levenstam at Cisco

January 23 2006

Large taxpayers could leave Britain

Many UK multinationals could leave the country because of its "antagonistic" anti-tax avoidance laws, Guy Brannan, head of tax at Linklaters has told the Times. Read the story here

January 23 2006

New tax partner in Washington for Greenberg Traurig

Carolyn Fanaroff has joined Greenberg Traurig's tax practice group in Washington, DC. A transfer pricing specialist, she previously worked in the Internal Revenue Service's Office of Chief Counsel

January 23 2006

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