International Tax Review is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2026

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Search results for

There are 33,123 results that match your search.33,123 results
  • The main issue in dispute between the taxpayer company, a life assurance company, and the Inland Revenue, was how double tax relief is calculated where the receipt that has been subject to overseas tax is included in trading profits taxed on schedule D-case I principles.
  • The minister of finance delivered his Budget speech to Parliament on February 23 2005. The Budget was reasonably expansionary, with additional funds being spent on social welfare and infrastructure development.
  • The government released a new anti-fronting law for the UAE in late 2004. It is intended that this law will come into force in 2007 and, should it do so, it is likely to change how business is done in the UAE.
  • Back in 1982 the Supreme Court ruled that a gain realized on conversion of a convertible bond could not be seen as a benefit derived from shares and consequently such gain was not eligible for the participation exemption, even where the holder of the bond already had a qualifying interest in the share capital of the issuer. At the time, this ruling was subject to some criticism, but obviously with no avail to the tax practice.
  • Peter Spori, a new tax consultant at Prager Dreifuss, the Swiss law firm, said that he left Ernst & Young because he wanted to keep working. The big four accounting firm has a retirement age of 60 for its partners. But Spori, who is approaching that age, revealed in an interview with International Tax Review that wanted to keep working.
  • KPMG, an accounting, tax and advisory firm, has set up an Ireland Tax Centre of Excellence to help US companies with operations in Ireland and those that are thinking of setting up a base there. The centre of excellence will also provide tax services to Irish companies that have invested in the US.
  • There has been significant change in Polish legislation on special economic zones (SEZs) that substantially increase their attractiveness to multinational investors.
  • The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) has opposed a government tax proposal that would increase corporate income tax from 32% to 35%.