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McDermott Will & Emery upgrades tax associates

Seven associates in Europe and the US have become partners of McDermott Will & Emery. The new partners are Damon Lyon, Katherine Stenander and Gregory Walker in Chicago; Nicola Purcell in London; Gero Burwitz in Munich and Joshua Odintz in Washington

January 09 2006

NZ government scraps carbon tax

The New Zealand government will not proceed with its carbon tax proposals, and will instead consider other ways for New Zealand to meet its commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions

January 09 2006

New IRS fees from February 1

Increases in some user fees at the Internal Revenue Service in the US come into force on February 1. Among the changes are the cost of private letter rulings from the chief counsel; the fee for requests for changes in accounting methods for businesses and the cost of a pre-filing agreement and an advance pricing agreement

January 09 2006

China to reform international tax regime in 2006

Xie Xuren, the director of China's State Administration of Taxation, has said the government will step up the management of international tax and collection of tax involving overseas-funded firms and improve tax regulations for multinationals to prevent tax evasion this year, according to a report from Xinhua, a state-controlled news agency

January 09 2006

Survey shows lack of preparation for e-filing

More than one-third (35%) of the large- and mid-sized companies that must file their 2005 US taxes electronically, have not yet begun to prepare to do so, according to a recent poll conducted by KPMG in the US.

January 09 2006

New Cravath tax partner

Eric Hilfers has become a partner in the tax department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. His practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefit matters, principally in connection with M&A and other business transactions

January 09 2006

EMI Group Plc v Revenue and Customs

Claim for Repayment of Tax; VAT paid in error; VAT Act 1983 Sch 2; samples treated as desupplied; Time limit for claims;

January 09 2006

Tax lawyer joins Polish government

Miroslaw Barszcz, a partner in the Warsaw office of Baker & McKenzie, has joined the Polish government as a vice minister of finance. Barszcz only joined the firm as a partner in 2005 after nine years as a VAT specialist at international tax consultancy firms. At Baker & McKenzie he provided tax advice to clients across the service and manufacturing sectors and for national and local government in Poland

January 09 2006

New head of tax for Lovells in Czech Republic

Lovells has hired Bohdana Karkanova as head of tax in the firm's Prague office. Karkanova previously built and led the tax department of Mazars, an international business advisory and accountancy firm, in Prague

January 09 2006

Isle of Man to meet EU tax obligations

The Isle of Man government will introduce draft legislation before the end of this financial year on April 5, as part of its commitments under the EU Code of Conduct for Business Taxation. The Bill will repeal the tax legislation relating to international business companies, non-resident company duty, exempt companies, exempt insurance companies and exempt managed banks. If passed, these changes will take effect from April 62007.

January 09 2006

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