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  • As International Tax Review reveals the results of the third annual survey of Latin American tax advice, Oliver Ralph talks to consultants and their clients about the globalization of tax policy that is forcing a sea change in the way that advice is given.
  • The German government’s proposals for an ecological tax are proof of the old saying that if you try and please everyone you end up pleasing nobody. Plans to tax the use of energy and channel revenue into statutory non-wage costs have split Germany’s coalition government, and has attracted criticism from unlikely bedfellows Greenpeace and the German Federation for Industry.
  • US-based bookseller Barnes & Noble is to purchase Ingram Book Group in a deal valued at $600 million. This comprises $200 million in cash and $400 million in stock.
  • Swiss chemical companies Ciba and Clariant are to merge in a deal worth £8.8 billion ($14.6 billion). The deal will create the largest speciality chemicals company in the world.
  • Future Rentals, a company formed by Japanese stockbroking firm Nomura Securities, is to acquire UK rental company Thorn in a deal valued at £935 million ($1.5 billion).
  • US-based communications group AT&T is to acquire Vanguard Cellular, a US mobile phone operator. The deal is worth $1.5 billion in cash, and stocks, and $600 million of debt. The acquisition is due to be completed in the first quarter of 1999.
  • The Finnish govenment has sold its 21.9% stake in Sonera, the country’s leading telecommunications company in the largest-ever offering by a Finnish issuer. The deal is valued at over $1.4 billion. The offering comprised 160 million shares, including 119 million American depository shares sold to institutional investors outside Finland.
  • US petroleum companies Exxon and Mobil are to merge in a transaction worth $79 billion. Exxon will gain control of the new company. This is the largest merger in US history. The new company will have a market value of $250 billion.
  • Mason Gaffney, Professor of Economics, University of California argues that the OECD’s definition of harmful tax competition must be challenged. Instead, he suggests that tax competition is both a natural and beneficial process
  • Competition for holding company business will intensify with the proposal for a new Danish structure. The regime offers multinationals significant benefits and, as Ned Shelton of Sheltons, Copenhagen, explains could win Denmark business from more established jurisdictions