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  • European finance ministers have agreed to discuss proposals for an air fuel tax on commercial aircraft. An ECOFIN (European Economic and Financial Affairs) council meeting on March 14 listened to European Commission (EC) plans for the tax, which would levy anything from 10-245 euros per 1000 litres of aviation fuel.
  • Finance minister Richard Hu announced a budget that drew on a more optimistic reading of the Asian economic climate. Principal changes included a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 26% to 25.5%. The two-year property tax rebate for commercial and industrial properties, announced in 1998 was extended until 2001 but at the lower rate of 25%.
  • The US Treasury is out to get tax products and is increasing its demands for disclosure as a deterrent against their use. Further moves will soon follow, as Keith Martin of Chadbourne & Parke LLP, Washington DC explains
  • Vodafone AirTouch/Mannesmann deal are reviewed by Conor Hurley and Andrew Beverley from Linklaters, and Lynne Patmore, group tax director at Vodafone AirTouch
  • Matheson Ormsby Prentice has boosted its tax department by bringing in four new associates.
  • The German draft transfer pricing documentation and APA regulations focus attention on the procedural elements of compliance. The rules, if adopted represent a significant documentation burden. By Thomas Borstell and Ludger Wellens, Ernst & Young, Düsseldorf
  • The PRC State Administration of Taxation has issued the Trial Measures for Tax Refund in Respect of Equipment Purchased by Foreign Investment Enterprises. Under the Trial Measures, a foreign investment enterprise (FIE) is eligible for a full refund of value-added tax (VAT) paid in respect of the purchase of equipment manufactured by enterprises situated in the PRC, if it has satisfied the following requirements:
  • Despite widely expected changes, the financial secretary, Donald Tsang Yam-Kuen, made no significant changes to Hong Kong's tax regime. Only three measures were announced: a reduction in the stamp duty on stock transactions (from 0.25% to 0.225%), an extension of the diesel duty concessionary rate, and an extension of exemptions for electronic vehicles.
  • Canada’s federal budget attempts to balance the need to reduce excessive personal and business tax rates with the desire to increase government spending. But has it gone far enough to address the issue of tax migration? By Elinore Richardson of Stikeman Elliott, Montreal
  • Taxpayers’ worst fears of a harsh budget for the next year proved to be mostly unfounded. With the exception of a surprise doubling of the dividend distribution tax, nip and tuck seems the order of the day. By Prayaag Joshi and Ayesha Chandy of Arthur Andersen, Mumbai