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PKF is an international association of specialist tax, accounting and business consulting firms, advising clients in diverse industry sectors, through a network of 240 member firms in 114 countries. The PKF Australian Tax Practices have highly trained tax consulting teams with expertise in all areas of corporate and personal taxation, with particular specialist skills in corporate restructures, tax audit management, international tax, expatriate taxes, Captial Gains Tax, Goods and Services Tax and research and development concessions.

Larry Langdon, former commissioner of the large and mid-size business division at the IRS in the US, has joined Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. Langdon will be a partner and director of the firm's global tax practice based in the Palo Alto office.

UK-resident companies now have a clear right to deduct upfront the professional fees associated with preparing an abortive bid for another company (UK or non-UK resident). This is the effect of the High Court decision in Camas plc v Atkinson, published in July. Any resulting tax losses which cannot immediately be used by the company itself can be set against taxable profits elsewhere in the company's group or carried forward.

The UK Inland Revenue could be forced to repay hundreds of millions of pounds in advance corporation tax (ACT) paid against dividend payments by UK subsidiaries to their non-UK parents

Eight out of the ten countries expecting to join the EU on May 1 2004 may have to significantly change their company tax regimes in order to comply with the principles of the Code of Conduct for business taxation

Clifford Chance has closed a €500 million ($567 million) credit card securitization for Capital One bank, based on an original programme set up in 2001

Alastair Wilson, who is qualified as a barrister and spent 17 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, has joined McDermott, Will & Emery

The Italian government has published a draft of the proposed new law on corporate taxation, which it expects will come into force on January 1 2004

The government of the Republic of Korea has introduced a stimulus package, which includes tax incentives that are intended to give the sagging economy a much-needed boost

Air France completed a €615 million ($700 million) securitization of 16 passenger planes in July 2003 using Ireland as a location for part of the transaction