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  • Because of a delay in the publication of final regulations and customized filing forms for new transfer pricing legislation, the Argentine government has extended the filing deadline to August 2004. The original filing deadline for the new legislation, which will introduce a new penalties regime, was November 2003.
  • John Kerry, the Democrat challenger to US President George W Bush, is promising to overhaul international corporate tax arrangements, the biggest of its kind in 40 years, if he wins office in the US presidential elections in November 2004
  • The UK Inland Revenue is investigating more than 30 leading UK companies that used a controversial tax planning scheme involving currency swaps to deliver big reductions in corporation tax. The Inland Revenue claims the scheme has cost up to £1 billion ($1.8 billion) in lost revenue.
  • Corporate taxpayers are unimpressed with the UK government’s plans to merge the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise, the country’s two tax collection agencies
  • The US law firm Dewey Ballantine has boosted its European tax presence by setting up new practices in Milan and Frankfurt
  • Mario Monti, the EU’s competition commissioner, on May 6 2004 met with representatives of the Belgian government to iron out a dispute over the country’s corporate tax regime
  • The embattled Russian oil company Yukos on Friday May 7 2004 faced the first stage of a potentially lengthy legal battle over a $3.5 billion tax claim from the Russian government. The opening of the hearings followed further criticism by Russia's finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, of Yukos' tax optimization schemes.
  • The 2004 Finance Bill confirms that, from April 1 2004, the UK's transfer pricing rules, which until March 31 2004 applied only to cross-border related party transactions, are extended so that an arm's length price is also imposed for tax purposes on related party transactions within the UK
  • Sixth VAT Directive – Exemptions – Leasing and letting of immovable property – Meaning of leasing of immovable property – Licence for the use of a building without allocation of a specific area, granted by a company to three other companies in the same group, for a price determined by reference to the size of the area occupied, and the turnover and number of employees of each company.
  • The European Commission on April 27 2004 proposed a code of conduct to eliminate double taxation in cross-border transfer pricing cases. The proposal, based on the work of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum, would apply in cases where an EU member state's tax administration increases the taxable profits of a company from its cross-border intra-group transactions, for example by making a transfer pricing adjustment.