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  • Brazilian authorities have released new legislation that significantly increases the overall tax burden on import transactions in Brazil
  • The US state of Michigan will give generous tax breaks to General Motors (GM) and Dr. Schneider Automotive Systems, a German car manufacturer, in a bid to retain and create manufacturing jobs. GM will get a $10.4 million single business tax credit over 20 years if it invests $299 million in its Warren transmission plant for future business while Dr. Schneider Automotive Systems will receive a $3.1 million tax credit over 15 years to build a new manufacturing plant.
  • The US has filed a case with the WTO about China, charging that its value-added tax (VAT) rebates for domestic producers of semiconductors violate global trade rules
  • On February 12 2004 Advocate General (AG) Kokott issued her opinion in the Weidert and Paulus case (C-242/03)
  • A combination of previously-announced initiatives and government leaks took the tax sting out of the UK Budget, which was announced by Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, on March 17 2004
  • With only just over a month to go before 10 new countries join the EU, companies are struggling to cope with EU VAT legislation and missing opportunities to take advantage of tax-enabled business opportunities
  • Vladimir Putin, Russian President, has targeted the oil industry to pay for sweeping tax reforms that would cut social tax paid by Russian companies. He has said once the tax system is reformed, it must not undergo changes for a long time.
  • The Chinese State Administration of Taxation has announced a tax amnesty that will allow foreign residents who are taxable in China to pay their overdue or underreported tax liabilities without penalties. The amnesty allows foreign residents or their withholding agents to remit overdue tax payments on or before June 30 2004, without penalties.
  • The Japanese parliament has approved the tax treaty signed with the US on November 6 2003. The treaty would eliminate source-country withholding taxes on all royalty income, dividends paid to parent companies owning a majority stake in the paying entity, and some interest income. Japan and the US are expected to exchange instruments of ratification on March 30 2004 in Tokyo, at which point the treaty will enter into force.
  • During the second week of February, the Ministry of Finance issued new miscellaneous regulations that both clarify and broaden tax incentives that had previously been decreed