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  • The Chinese Ministry of Finance will change its sales tax policy to end advantages given to foreign companies over their Chinese counterparts, according to local reports.
  • A Baker & McKenzie report has revealed that France and Germany impose the highest tax burdens on companies in Europe, which highlights the problems facing the EU in harmonizing corporate tax rates
  • Baker & McKenzie has hired two partners in Germany, in a bid by the US firm to strengthen its corporate and tax capability. M&A partner Andreas Hoffman joins Baker in Munich from the management board of Advanced Medien. He was previously assistant general counsel of Metallgesellschaft and corporate counsel of BMW, after working as an associate with Baker.
  • Proposed changes to Australia’s thin capitalization and debt:equity rules give investors little time to prepare for the dramatic shift in the treatment of relevant transactions, By Joe Niven and Neil Ward Deloitte & Touche, Melbourne
  • India’s recent budget represents a balancing act between addressing fiscal deficit and encouraging investment, By Rajeshree Sabnavis and Harish Hulyalkar of Andersen, Mumbai
  • The German state of Hesse, which oversees Frankfurt, is calling for reforms to tax laws governing foreign earnings by German companies. According to local reports, the state's finance minister Karlheinz Weimer said the German economy would suffer if the laws were not reformed soon.
  • The Russian government is to extend its corporate profit tax of 30% to foreign companies controlled and managed from Russia. Under existing rules, many Controlled Foreign Companies (CFCs) are exempt from the tax.
  • Gilbert & Tobin has poached partners from Baker & McKenzie and KPMG to develop a tax practice at the Australian firm for the first time
  • Paul Sleurink has resigned from his London tax partnership role with Netherlands-based firm Loyens & Loeff to join Merrill Lynch’s corporate finance team as managing partner of the global product development group
  • The UK High Court has ruled that IT contractors are to be taxed in the same way as all other employees. IT consultants had been able to avoid some income tax and national insurance payments by setting themselves up as self-employed contractors in situations where they would otherwise be regarded as an employee of their clients.