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Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's Finance Minister, does not intend to raise corporate tax rates in his forthcoming Budget.

The scope for errors in VAT accounting and compliance is high and the penalties for getting it wrong are severe according to a new worldwide report on indirect taxes entitled "The Growing Burden?" by accounting firm Ernst & Young. According to the report, consumption taxes not only add to the tax burden of individual tax payers, they also have a significant and growing impact on the tax burden borne by corporations

John Snow, the US Treasury Secretary, has said that the reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains that the Jobs and Growth Act introduced in 2003 have been critical to the revival of business investment in the US since then.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that taxpayers that are unwittingly part of carousel fraud are entitled to reclaim value-added tax (VAT) from the transactions. Carousel fraud refers to where a trader in a series of deals doesn't declare the VAT to the tax authorities or takes over another trader's VAT number. The verdict came in the joined cases of Optigen, Fulcrum Electronics and Bond House Systems v Commissioners of Customs and Excise. Read the judgement here

Diana Hickey and Margreet Nijhof have become partners in Baker & McKenzie's tax practice in the San Francisco/Palo Alto office Hickey is an corporate international tax planning specialist. Nijhof focuses on domestic and international tax planning with an emphasis on corporate reorganizations and restructurings as well as transfer pricing.

Bernhard von Thaden, formerly a partner with KPMG's transfer pricing practice in Los Angeles, has joined DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary's office in the same city as a senior economist. He will be part of the global transfer pricing practice

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Sixth VAT Directive; Article 2(1), Article 4(1) and (2) and Article 5(1); Deduction of input tax; Economic activity; Taxable person acting as such; Supply of goods; Transaction forming part of a chain of supply involving a defaulting trader or a trader using an unauthorised VAT number; Carousel fraud;

Sixth VAT Directive – Article 2(1), Article 4(1) and (2) and Article 5(1) – Deduction of input tax – Economic activity – Taxable person acting as such – Supply of goods – Transaction forming part of a chain of supply involving a defaulting trader or a trader using an unauthorised VAT number – Carousel fraud.

Directive 69/335 – Indirect taxes on the raising of capital – National rules taxing a (subsidiary) company by way of capital duty in respect of a contribution made by its parent company (the grandparent company) in favour of its subsidiary (a sub-subsidiary company) – Capital duty – Increase of capital – Payment ‘to the share premium account’ – Increase in the assets of the company – Increase in the value of shares – Provision of services by a member – Payment made by a member of a member – Payment to a subsidiary – ‘Real recipient’ – Levying of capital duty once only (in the Community) – Article 52 of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 43 EC) – Freedom of establishment – National practice exempting a (subsidiary) capital company from taxation only if its subsidiary (sub-subsidiary company) is also established in that member state.