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  • The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled against Belgium imposing capital gains tax on the sale of a substantial participation in a Belgian company to a foreign entity. In a preliminary ruling the ECJ found the tax to be incompatible with the EC Treaty.
  • The US and China have ended their four-month dispute at the WTO over what the US alleged was China's illegal support, through its tax system, of its indigenous semiconductor makers and designers.
  • The US energy company ConocoPhillips is facing a law suit in a US district court from Oceanic Exploration Co and its subsidiary, Petrotimor Companhia de Petroleos over claims that ConocoPhillips committed tax fraud and other crimes in gaining its Timor Sea oil fields in south-east Asia. Oceanic is seeking $10.5 billion in damages.
  • By Jeffrey Owens, director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
  • A Brussels court has just ruled that a dividend of Hong Kong origin is entitled to Belgium's 95% participation exemption, according to Kurt De Haen and Magalie Delattre of PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • The number of EU member states increased from 15 to 25 on May 1 this year. In a single move, the opportunities to structure investments for multinational groups in Europe multiplied, according to Götz Wiese and Henrik Lay of Latham & Watkins
  • A test case brought by Debenhams, a UK retailer, could cost Customs & Excise as much as £300 million ($549 million) in lost revenue. The June 29 2004 High Court ruling upheld Debenhams' appeal against an earlier tax tribunal decision that said the company was guilty of avoiding value-added tax (VAT).
  • Caroline Silberztein, head of transfer pricing at the OECD, and Donald Korb, chief counsel of the US Internal Revenue Service, are two of the big names down to speak at International Tax Review's Global Transfer Pricing Forum 2004 in Berlin. The event takes place at the Ritz-Carlton hotel on Wednesday September 29 and Thursday September 30.
  • The Russian Taxes and Levies Ministry is paying closer attention to so-called tax optimization schemes in the country. The Ministry plans to issue about 20 regulations listing typical tax evasion schemes in certain branches of the economy. The Ministry has already issued tax evasion regulations regarding the oil and construction industries.
  • The Brazilian tax authorities have for the past few months issued a number of rulings designed to preserve and/or modify the related tax base. Some recent rulings worth mentioning are the following: