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  • The Norwegian parliament passed a new tax reform in December 2004. A central part of the reform is the so-called "Exemption Model", that is, granting most corporate shareholders exemption from taxes on gains and dividends on shares, including the withholding tax on dividends.
  • In 2004 tax authorities around the world increased their focus on transfer pricing and tax compliance, the European Court of Justice continued to exert pressure on EU member states' tax systems and the US Congress passed significant corporate and international tax reform. Simon Briault gets the views of tax professionals as they peer into their crystal balls for what 2005 has in store.
  • George W Bush: Wants to reform the US tax code President Bush signed an executive order on January 7 2005 to set up his Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform that will provide advice on ways to amend the US tax code including ways to encourage savings and investment.
  • Pursuant to Council Directive 2003/48/EC of June 3 2003 each EU member state will be required to provide to the tax authorities of another member state details of payments of interest or other similar income paid by a person within its jurisdiction to an individual resident in that other member state.
  • A tax partner has left Gleiss Lutz, a German law firm, to set up independently. Wolfgang Blumers took two tax associates, Diethard Goerg and Ulrich-Peter Kinzl, with him to set up the Stuttgart-based boutique Blumers & Partner.
  • Although value-added tax is usually relevant to outsourcing, there are plenty of other tax issues to consider, explain Iain Scoon and Stephen Pevsner of Shearman & Sterling
  • The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the US accounting watchdog established following corporate scandals involving such as Enron and WorldCom, has released proposals that would for the first time ban firms from supplying certain tax avoidance schemes to audit clients.
  • The re-election of the coalition government has buoyed the business community with heightened expectation of further tax reforms, especially given its clear majority in the Senate from July 1 2005. High on the wish-list is completion of the current round of business tax reforms, and a government commitment to personal tax reform.
  • The tax authorities amended the country's transfer-pricing rules at the end of 2004. They will have to work hard to ensure taxpayers are treated equally throughout the country, believe Matthew Mui and Joanne Su of PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • The government of India has released details of a key value-added tax (VAT) plan that will come into force on April 1 2005. P Chidambaram, the finance minister, said the tax reforms were the most important since India won its independence in 1947.