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A special report prepared by Manuel Solano, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mexico City

A special report prepared by Humberto Romero-Muci Andersen Legal, Caracas

Linklaters & Alliance is preparing to tap tax-related opportunities in emerging central and eastern European markets, scooping two local partners in Prague

The Hong Kong revenue service is to put into effect the double taxation relief provision in the air services agreements with Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The air services agreements were signed earlier this year and contain a provision on double taxation relief on airline income and profits. A Hong Kong government spokesman said: "The double taxation relief provision provides that Hong Kong and Denmark/Sweden/Norway will provide reciprocal tax exemption for income profits and property of airlines of the other side which are derived from operating aircraft in their own area."

Ireland and India have signed an agreement to avoid double taxation and prevent tax evasion on income and capital gains taxes

The European Commission has proposed a series of rules to harmonize and modernize value-added tax (VAT) invoicing in the EU

The first amendments have been drafted to the German Tax Reform Act concerning domestic share and derivatives trading

Freedom of establishment – Tax legislation – Direct taxes – Deduction of business losses – Previous tax year.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker is bolstering its US tax practice, hiring Renee Raithel as of counsel in the firm's Orange County, California office. Raithel, formerly a partner at US rival McDermott, Will & Emery, specializes in private wealth and business succession planning, capital gains tax deferral planning, liquidity planning, and corporate structuring for private businesses.

The Cuban government will cut off phone services with the US this week if American phone companies do not begin paying a new 10 % tax by December 15. Cuban president Fidel Castro announced the surcharge in October after the US Congress approved antiterrorism legislation that would use frozen Cuban assets in the US to compensate relatives of anti-Castro exiles killed by terrorists in 1996. The Clinton administration has forbidden American carriers from paying the surcharge, which would add $0.24 a minute to all phone calls to and from Cuba. Cuba has some of the highest international calling rates in the world.