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The Irish Department of Finance’s money laundering steering committee has relaxed the money laundering reporting obligations for the country’s tax advisers

The debate on tax amnesty has been going on for more than ten years

Walbrook, Deloitte’s former offshore advisory business, appointed an old colleague as chairman and launched its own tax advice division within a few days of each other at the beginning of June 2004

On April 23 2004 the Italian Ministry of Finance issued an ad hoc Decree implementing the necessary detailed rules to make the so-called transparency regime fully effective

Iraq does have corporate tax rules in spite of the year-long turmoil. But they could be changed after the transfer of sovereignty in June 2004, warn Mahyra Roy and Michel Picard of KPMG

Changes to the South African rules on the tax exemption on offshore profits will make it harder for multinational corporations to claim the relief, according to tax specialists

The EU on May 19 2004 announced plans to continue its scrutiny of the Netherlands and Greece over their compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact. The agreement sets a limit for budget deficits of EU member states of 3% of GDP. The countries will either need to rein-in spending or increase tax revenue to comply.

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