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  • Glenn Hubbard has resigned from his role as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Hubbard, who played a key role in president Bush's tax-cutting programme, is expected to return to Columbia University where, until joining Bush's government in 2001, he was a professor of economics. Bush intends to nominate Nicholas Gregory Mankiw, an economics professor at Harvard University, to replace him.
  • The South African budget announced February 26 introduced tax measures aimed at stimulating business and encouraging investment into the country. One of the most important measures is the removal of tax on some foreign dividend repatriations
  • The US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last week issued final regulations forcing taxpayers to disclose participation in potentially abusive tax avoidance transactions
  • The recent admission of accounting irregularities at Ahold shows Sarbanes-Oxley is having a positive effect on audit and corporate governance standards
  • The EU has taken another step towards imposing sanctions against the US in the ongoing trade war between the two countries over unfair tax breaks for US exporters
  • The Czech government is discussing an amendment to its Value-Added Tax Act (VAT) to harmonize the country's laws with EU law. If approved the proposals will become effective in July this year. The changes will simplify VAT record-keeping, amend the list of exempt supplies, and allow foreign businesses to claim VAT on goods and services purchased in the Czech Republic with certain exceptions.
  • The Public Account Oversight Board (PAOB) is to vote on March 4 on whether to adopt a registration system for accounting firms
  • WJB Chiltern has expanded its customs and excise team with a former HM Customs & Excise official. Allan Brown has joined WJB Chiltern's value added tax (VAT) and customs & excise investigations team which advises the accounting and legal profession and clients on litigation and fraud investigations by customs & excise.
  • Ernst & Young has named Gary LeDonne as the new national director of the firm's US state and local tax practice. LeDonne will be based in New York and takes over from Steve Starbuck.
  • There seems to be no escape for the big accounting firms in the US. Just after their fears were alleviated by the final wording of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which seemingly guarantees that they can continue providing tax services to audit clients, they face another attack. This time, the US government is cracking down on tax shelters offered by accounting firms and the big four, and other professional services firms are hitting the headlines once again.