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To stimulate the lethargic economy, the German government approved draft income tax relief legislation on May 4 2005. Unless otherwise stated, all measures would take effect in 2006 (fiscal year 2005/06 for non-calendar-year taxpayers).

The Taxpayer's Council issued, in April 2005, three more decisions in favour of pharmaceutical companies regarding the application of the Brazilian transfer pricing methods.

On Tuesday, May 10, the federal treasurer Peter Costello delivered his tenth Budget.

Congress is about to pass a new bill that includes a series of reforms to the Tax Procedure Law, which allegedly aim at enhancing the fight against tax evasion in Argentina. The bill follows on the back of the initiatives launched in late 2003.

Recent experience shows that now is the correct time to put the taxation position of UK securitization companies beyond doubt, while addressing the concerns of the industry that the UK market should remain competitive, argues Martin Shah of Simmons & Simmons

Peter Costello, the Australian Treasurer, announced in the country's budget of May 10 that Australia will no longer impose capital gains tax on most Australian-source capital gains made by non-residents, a measure that will benefit foreign investors. Other international tax changes in the Budget include measures to simplify the foreign loss quarantining regime.

The Tax Department is currently made up by eight partners and three senior associates, assisted by around thirty other tax lawyers from the offices of Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Lisbon, Porto and New York. The Department advises on all Spanish and Portuguese direct and indirect taxes, but has particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions, financial products and capital markets, International tax planning, real estate transactions and project finance, assurance and pension funds, internet and electronic business, high net worth individuals, stock options plans and alternate schemes and tax investigation and disputes.

The US law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has started a European tax practice in London by hiring three senior tax lawyers from Jones Day.