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  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering and Hale and Dorr will combine on May 31 2004 to create one of the largest law firms in the US
  • Russian tax officials stepped up pressure on Yukos by raiding the oil company's headquarters on April 22 2004 in search of evidence of tax evasion. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the company's former chief executive and main shareholder, has been in detention since his arrest in October 2003 on charges of fraud and tax evasion.
  • The governments of the world's four largest English-speaking countries have agreed to cooperate in cracking down on company tax evasion. The US, the UK, Canada and Australia will form a taskforce based in New York to pursue and prosecute businesses suspected of cheating on taxes.
  • Germany could face proceedings in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) if it fails to respond to a European Commission (EC) demand to end its exit tax on unrealized capital gains of persons who leave the country
  • The country's lower house of parliament on April 23 2004 approved a package of amendments to the country's tax code that increases taxes on oil exports and oil production. The Bill, part of the government's tax reform efforts planned for this year and next, would increase oil export duties from August 1 2004 and implement a new unified mineral extraction tax from January 1 2005.
  • A parliamentary vote on the Czech Republic’s controversial value added tax (VAT) bill went ahead on April 22 2004 despite one of the key proponents of the bill being involved in a car crash
  • The Australian commissioner of taxation, Michael Carmody, recently penned a letter to the chairperson of all publicly listed companies, reinforcing the messages in the document that he released in June last year - the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) Large business and tax compliance booklet
  • A survey of business confidence among middle market companies in the UK has found real concerns within the sector over taxation and the administrative burden
  • The European Commission (EC) has called on EU member states to increase cooperation to combat VAT fraud in an April 26 2004 report. The report recommends that member states take further steps to intensify administrative cooperation such as improving the exchange of information, increasing the human resources allocated to this work and removing remaining legal barriers to the fight against VAT fraud.
  • It is common in the US to acquire companies in tax-free stock acquisitions