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  • US telecoms companies GTE and Bell Atlantic are to merge. The deal will create a company worth approximately $121 billion.
  • Amvescap, the UK financial services and management group, has made two offerings of notes on the London stock market. The offerings are valued at $250 million and $400 million.
  • 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.
  • New Administrative Principles on transfer pricing documentation will mean substantial exposure for taxpayers lacking an appropriate defence strategy. Gianmarco Monsellato of Deloitte & Touche, Paris advises taxpayers on how to survive in a harsh climate
  • US-based multinationals represent the largest proportion of companies investing in the UK. How will substantial changes to the UK advance corporation tax system affect these companies? By Lawrence Pollack, David Porter, and Frances Corrie, KPMG New York and London
  • UK firm British Petroleum is to merge with US oil company Amoco in the world's largest industrial merger. The new company will be known as BP Amoco and will be worth around $110 billion. The equity split will be 60% to BP shareholders and 40% to Amoco shareholders.
  • Inco of Canada, the world's largest nickel producer, has agreed to sell its alloys operation to Special Metals of the US for around $408 million. The deal is part of Inco's sale of non-core assets to pay debts.
  • 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