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

Argentine corporate regulatory and tax anti-avoidance rules work together to fight tax avoidance by Argentine taxpayers conducting activity through tax haven companies, point out Guillermo Teijeiro and Ana Lucía Ferreyra of Negri & Teijeiro

The tax environment has changed in the countries that joined the EU in 2004. Corporate taxpayers may be at risk as a result, explain Philippe Norré, Ildikó Molnár and Duncan Stocks of KPMG

The second round of repatriation guidance from the IRS helps multinational taxpayers to work-out how they should apply the section 965 incentive in the American Jobs Creation Act, according to Ernst & Young

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

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department issued revisions on May 18 to the standards for written tax advice that were released at the end of last year.

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.

On March 1 2005 the legislation relating to reportable arrangements became effective. Under this legislation parties to transactions that have the potential for tax avoidance are obliged to make disclosure of the details, including a description of all the steps and key features, a list of the parties involved, copies of the signed documents and financial models, to the South African Revenue Service (the SARS).