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  • New rules confirmed on July 15 abolish capital gains tax in Finland for foreign silent partners in equity funds
  • The latest quarterly figures from McDonald's, the global fast food chain, show a 10% fall in net income from $590 million in the second quarter of 2004 to $530 million for the same period in 2005. The company blames the drop on the tax costs associated with the repatriation of foreign earnings, which has cost the company $3.2 billion. However the tax costs have been offset by a rise in US earnings of 7% from the previous quarter following the addition of new menu items.
  • The Chinese State Administration of Taxation issued a letter on June 23 2005 to supplement the existing notice on income tax examination and approval procedures from in-bound technology transfers for foreign enterprises. The existing notice had been introduced on July 1 2004 and the circular makes it explicit that the approval procedures that came into effect on this date cannot be applied to transactions completed beforehand.
  • The body that oversees the work of auditors of public companies in the US will vote on July 26 on proposed rules that would ban an accounting firm from supplying tax shelter advice to its audit clients
  • Failure of a member state to fulfil obligations – Directive 77/799/EEC – Mutual assistance by the competent authorities – Fields of VAT and excise duties – Partial transposition– Territory of Gibraltar.
  • Malcolm Burke, a tax partner at Ernst & Young in London, will move to Vodafone as interim group tax director on August 10. Robbie Barr, the telecom company's group financial controller, said the hire was made after Lynne Patmore, Vodafone's group tax director, decided to leave company.
  • Hong Kong and China are to start income tax treaty negotiations on September 5, Frederick Ma Si-hang, Hong Kong's secretary for financial services and the Treasury, said on July 14.
  • COLT Telecom Group has hired Charles Staveley, former tax head at Novar, the secure printing and industrial group, as the company's new head of tax and treasury
  • Two more international oil companies have been caught up in the Venezuelan government's campaign against alleged tax evasion in the industry
  • The federal US tax authorities have increased the amount of corporate tax collected by more than 40%