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  • Recovery of sums paid but not due — Procedural time-limits under national law.
  • A ruling of the Brandenburg tax court raises interesting issues concerning the value-added tax (VAT) treatment of companies which have little substance and engage in no meaningful economic activity.
  • Financial authorities in Austria and Germany have continued negotiations over the new double tax treaty of May 1998. Representatives of the Austrian Ministry of Finance have already disclosed the most important changes to the existing double tax treaty that the authorities were able to agree on. Although the negotiations have not yet been finalized in all aspects, it is likely that the following changes will be effective from the tax year 2000.
  • The recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision in ICI v Colmer follows principles in earlier ECJ cases, ie that UK direct tax law is subject to the Treaty of Rome, and where it contravenes the principle of freedom of establishment (non-discrimination), taxpayers have recourse to Community law.
  • US leveraged buy-out company Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst is to sell LIN Television to affiliate company Chancellor Media. The deal is valued at $900 million and involves Chancellor issuing 17.7 million shares to Hicks Muse, doubling Hicks' stake in the company from 9% to 18%. Hicks Muse bought LIN Television in March 1998.
  • Philips, the Dutch electronics company, is to acquire US medical company ATL Ultrasound in an $800 million deal.
  • Lawyers are following accounting firms into global networks and accounting firms are following lawyers in to legal services. Phillippa Cannon and Oliver Ralph try to make sense of the tax merry-go-round and find out which advisers in Europe are coming out on top
  • TAX LEGISLATION; TREATY DEVELOPMENTS; INTERNET TAXATION
  • In March 1998, Argentina's Executive signed a tax reform proposal containing several provisions.