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  • The merger will create the country's largest independent television company. Carlton shareholders will hold 52% of the new company compared with United shareholders' 48% stake. The new group expects cost savings to reach £40 million.
  • Monsanto has announced that its agricultural chemical wing will be spun off after shareholder concern. Its controversial genetically modified foods division is being retained, however.
  • The use of the maquiladora vehicle has proved to be efficient for US corporations operating in Mexico.
  • And so the EU's December conference in Helsinki ended not with a bang, but a whimper.
  • You can't take your eye off Brazil for a second these days. Proposals for the country's long-awaited tax reform package, which looked dead in the water in November, should have been completed by January 15, according to the Brazilian government.
  • Slovakia has reduced its corporate tax rate from 40% to 29% as part of the 2000 budget, in a bid to attract increased foreign investment. The cabinet passed a draft version of the budget which was accepted by parliament on November 24. The new law comes into effect January 1.
  • Estonia has passed new corporate tax legislation designed to encourage further investment.
  • Japan's plans to introduce a consolidated tax system appear to have stalled. The Ministry of Finance has announced that it is doubtful that they will be able to honour the April 2001 deadline originally set.
  • The issue was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is therefore open to US holders of Telewest shares. In a connected move, Microsoft and the Liberty Media Group acquired 51.3% of the rights issue, thereby allowing Microsoft to take a stake in Telewest.
  • The UK Inland Revenue issued a press release on January 14 announcing that legislation would be introduced in the next Finance Bill to widen the circumstances in which companies can calculate their taxable profits in a currency other than sterling. The new rules will apply to accounting periods beginning on or after January 1 2000.