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  • Ireland has followed the lead of other European jurisdictions by proposing covered bond legislation based on the model of the German Pfandbriefe legislation. The Asset Covered Securities Bill is expected to be enacted into law in the last quarter of 2001.
  • In January 1999, Mexico enacted a tax reform programme that involved a number of adjustments to the tax consolidation regime.
  • The Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) in India has issued a ruling (AAR No 442/1998) stating that gains realized on sale of shares of Indian companies, earned by a private equity fund (Fund) incorporated in Mauritius, will be regarded as business income and not capital gains.
  • Dr Matthias Bruse (Munich), partner Dr Thomas Töben (Berlin), partner Ralph Wagner (Frankfurt), partner
  • Court decision: application of thin capitalization rules and tax treaties
  • Two Supreme Court judgments (dated April 28 2001 and June 9 2001) have, for the time being, ended the controversy in Spain over whether software falls within the category of a scientific or a literary work for the purposes of the US convention.
  • In its decision in Commissioner of Taxation v Consolidated Press Holdings of May 31 2001, the High Court of Australia held in favour of the Commissioner of Taxation, concluding that a financing arrangement in connection with a takeover bid for a UK company, involving the interposition of a subsidiary to obtain an interest deduction, constituted a tax avoidance scheme under Australian tax law. The High Court also decided on a dividend-stripping tax avoidance issue arising out of a subsequent corporate reorganization, this time in favour of the taxpayer.
  • The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Justice Tribunal in Venezuela has dismissed the motion for nullity filed by attorneys Fermín Toro Jiménez and Luis Britto García against the agreement for the avoidance of double taxation between the US and Venezuela. The National Investment Promotion Council (CONAPRI) defended the action, with counsel from law firm Torres Plaz & Araujo.
  • A ruling by Germany's highest tax court in May of this year compels the German tax authorities to rethink their proposed transfer pricing documentation regulations. By Alexander Vögele and William Bader, KPMG, Frankfurt