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  • 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.
  • Dividends received by a Finnish company on direct foreign investment are generally exempt from tax. If the Finnish company has distributed the dividend received from a foreign country to its foreign owners, it may previously have been subject to a supplementary tax. As a result, income received from another country may also have been taxed at a corporate tax rate in Finland.
  • Eugen Bogenschütz and Kelly Wright of Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner, Frankfurt-am-Main analyze the structure and outcome of the 1998 Daimler-Chrysler merger
  • Under two recent advance rulings, foreign investors in India may be subject to amendments to the Finance Act, designed to prevent Indian companies taking undue advantage of certain concessions. Keyur Shah, Arthur Andersen, Mumbai reports
  • The IRS has issued new regulations that further limit the use of check-the-box tax planning techniques used by US companies for their foreign subsidiaries. Keith Martin of Chadbourne & Parke assesses the extent of the new restrictions