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  • Michael Cullen, New Zealand’s minister of revenue, has announced the start date for changes to the treatment of financial services under the country’s goods and services tax
  • US law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher hired Hans Martin Schmid from Shearman & Sterling in Munich on July 29 2004. Schmid, who specializes in corporate and international tax law, was at Shearman & Sterling from 1999.
  • On May 25 2004 the French tax authorities released new administrative guidelines (Instruction 14 B-4-04) concerning the simplification of the procedure US partnerships need to follow to benefit from the French-US tax treaty's reduced withholding tax on French source interest, royalties and dividends
  • The Indian finance minister has promised to resolve the controversy over the taxation of business process outsourcing (BPO), such as call centres and back-office services, by foreign multinational companies
  • Taxpayers in Singapore will have until August 11 2004 to submit comments to the country’s finance ministry on proposed amendments to four major pieces of tax legislation
  • Promoters of potentially abusive tax reduction schemes will have to declare them to the UK Inland Revenue from August 1 2004. Similar rules for value-added tax (VAT) also came into force. The VAT disclosure rules require businesses using VAT reduction schemes to notify Customs & Excise.
  • The Greek parliament on July 30 2004 passed legislation to introduce a six-month tax amnesty. The tax authorities will impose a 3% tax on repatriated money. The Greek Accounting Office estimates the tax amnesty will generate about €20 billion ($24 billion).
  • In a report released last Friday in Washington, DC, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended broadening the US tax base for businesses including a federal sales or value-added tax and higher taxes on energy use
  • As of January 1 2003, the Mexican tax authorities incorporated into the Mexican Income Tax Law tax incentives for Mexican real-estate trusts (MRET) where the primary activity is the construction or acquisition of real estate for sale or lease
  • In October 1998, the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) was enacted calling for a three-year moratorium on state and local taxes on internet access