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  • On September 6 2004 Law 25.924 introduced a transitory regime aimed at promoting investments in industrial activities and infrastructure during the next three years.
  • Taxpayers need to consider several situations when choosing where to locate a holding company in Europe, point out Nick Udal and Allan Cinnamon of BDO Stoy Hayward
  • In an interview with International Tax Review, John Sanders, the international tax counsel of the government of Aruba, has criticized the EU's Code of Conduct on Business Taxation as unfair on jurisdictions that are affiliated to EU member states.
  • Somerset House: Inland Revenue HQ The UK's tax disclosure burden shifted to clients last week after The Law Society reached an agreement with the Inland Revenue on the issue of legal professional privilege (LPP).
  • The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have agreed to levy value-added tax (VAT) on tobacco and its by-products from the middle of 2005. The GCC states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE also intend to gradually expand VAT collection to cover consumer goods.
  • Didier Reynders, the Belgian finance minister, has admitted that the results of the tax amnesty he introduced in January 2004 have been disappointing. Reynders was expecting tax revenues of between ?60 million ($76.7 million) and ?70 million ($89.5 million) for the third quarter of the year. But the tax amnesty has so far only yielded an extra ?46.9 million ($59.9 million).
  • The Tax Executives Institute (TEI) has criticized the OECD's revised discussion draft on new guidelines for the attribution of profits to permanent establishments. In a letter to Jeffrey Owens, director of the centre for tax policy and administration at the OECD in Paris, Judith Zelisko, the TEI's international president, said the latest draft could increase the risk of double taxation and the number of tax disputes.
  • Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president, announced a sharp rise in the royalty tax on multinational oil companies on October 10 2004. The tax increase from 1% to 16.6% per barrel of oil was effective immediately and affects all foreign oil companies operating in the southwestern Orinoco region of Venezuela. The rate rise is expected to raise an annual $1.27 billion in additional tax revenues.
  • By Shanto Ghosh, Deloitte and Sumon Mazumdar, LECG
  • Michael Serota has left his role as leader of Deloitte & Touche's national hedge fund practice, both audit and tax, in the US, to join Ernst & Young as the leader of its global hedge fund tax practice. Previously he was co-leader of Arthur Andersen's hedge fund practice.