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  • Charlie McCreevy, the Irish finance minister, has identified the country's tax policy as the key to its economic success in recent years. In a speech on June 24 2004 McCreevy reiterated the government's opposition to French and German calls for greater EU tax harmonization, saying that Ireland remains committed to maintaining its tax sovereignty and its low corporate tax rates.
  • The French tax authorities use the abuse-of-law theory as an obstacle to oppose tax avoidance schemes when the latter are deemed excessive
  • 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.
  • Tax lawyers and accountants last week welcomed a relaxation of the proposals on disclosing potentially abusive tax schemes to the UK Inland Revenue
  • Brazil's House of Representatives' Commission of Finance and Taxation on June 23 2004 approved a law project that extends the time period for filing protests or appeals against federal tax assessments from 30 to 60 days.
  • The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ratified five tax treaties, taking the country's tax treaty network to a total of 43. The new tax treaties are with Austria, New Zealand, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and Korea.
  • In a vote of 251 to 178 the House of Representatives passed the American Jobs Creation Act (AJC bill) last Thursday, June 17 2004, after months of intense lobbying and deal making
  • The National Tax Service of Korea (NTS) on June 15 2004 issued rulings on The Law for the Coordination of International Tax Affairs
  • Companies with operations in the Netherlands could be forced to hand over all information that tax inspectors consider potentially relevant to the collection of taxes
  • Although Irish tax law imposes an obligation on companies generally, and on others who pay interest to persons whose usual place of abode is outside Ireland, to withhold tax from certain payments of interest, there are extensive carve-outs from this withholding obligation in the case of outbound interest payments