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  • Germany gets to grips with reform
    Germany’s ambitious and comprehensive programme of tax changes has not been realized, but Felix Klinger of Schitag Ernst & Young, Frankfurt alerts readers to the real reforms that have been effected in the shadow of this programme
    February 01 1998
  • Ernst & Young tax breaks $2 billion barrier
    Fee income figures for the big six firms show that the corporate appetite for international tax advice is voracious. Four of the firms plan mergers to help service this demand but, as Phillippa Cannon reports, alternative strategies exist
    February 01 1998
  • ACT lives on – in the shadows
    The problem of surplus advance corporation tax has long been the bane of the UK multinational’s life. Now the ACT system is set for abolition. Murray Clayson of Freshfields, London considers the consequences, and the likely form of a successor shadow system
    February 01 1998
  • Fred Meyer expands grocery empire
    Fred Meyer, the US grocery chain, has reached agreement to purchase two rival chains; Quality Food Centers and Ralphs Grocery. Fred Meyer turned to law firm Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in New York. Tax partner Steven Todrys is working on the transactions.
    February 01 1998
  • Zurich Insurance – additional information
    Arthur Andersen in Zurich provided tax advice on the merger of Zurich Insurance and the financial services division of BAT Industries (for prior coverage see ITR Dec/Jan 1998, p6). Tax partners Peter Athanas and Maja Bauer-Balmelli worked on the Zurich Insurance side of the deal.
    February 01 1998
  • Virgin sells UK radio station
    Virgin has sold Virgin Radio to Ginger Media Holdings for £81 million ($130 million). Mark Joscelyne from law firm Olswang advised Ginger Media Holdings on tax. UK City firm Macfarlanes advised Virgin. Partner Ashley Greenbank was responsible for tax advice.
    February 01 1998
  • Tax reform proposals
    In our previous article (see International Tax Review, Dec/Jan 1998, p55), we highlighted potential tax law changes proposed by Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The LDP's tax reform proposals have now been adopted by prime minister Hashimoto's Cabinet.
    February 01 1998
  • Use of losses Following Purchase of a Corporate Shell
    The German tax code was revised in 1990 to permit net operating losses to be carried forward indefinitely for income, corporation, and trade tax purposes. In the case of income and corporation tax, the indefinite carryforward applies to losses which cannot be carried back to either of the two years preceding the year in which they were incurred. The trade tax has no loss carryback provision.
    February 01 1998
  • Changes to tax on passive income and individual taxation
    France's finance Act for 1998, applicable to 1997 income, is characterized by the suspension of the tax reduction plan announced by the previous government (personal income tax rate maintained at the maximum of 54%), and by an increase in the taxation of passive income.
    February 01 1998
  • Actively seeking expatriates
    Peter Vansteenkiste of Coopers & Lybrand, Antwerp and Eugene Weultjes of Coopers & Lybrand, Rotterdam assess the attractions of two traditionally expatriate-friendly regimes – Belgium and the Netherlands
    February 01 1998
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