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  • Dutch chemicals group Akzo Nobel has made a successful £1.8 billion ($3 billion) bid for Courtaulds, the UK paints and fibres business. The deal will make Akzo Nobel the world's largest paints company. The offer is worth 450 pence a share.
  • Central America is attracting investment attention; worldwide tax systems have almost been abolished and national tax treatment is on offer. By Miguel A Valdés and Nicolás Muñiz of Ernst & Young’s Latin America Business Centre, New York
  • The Czech Republic’s new package of investment incentives offers corporate tax holidays, accelerated depreciation allowances and duty-free import of some hi-tech machinery and equipment. By Dana Trezziová and Tomas Seidl, Deloitte & Touche, Prague
  • Andersen poaches Coopers partnerships
  • Siebe, a UK engineering group, has made an agreed £421 million ($690 million) bid for Eurotherm, a UK-based industrial controls manufacturer. The deal will see Siebe overtake US group Honeywell as the world leader in process automation.
  • US communications group SBC Communications has agreed to a $57 billion merger with Chicago telephone group Ameritech. The stock acquisition of Ameritech will increase SBC's market share in 13 states.
  • Switzerland and Luxembourg have refused to give their assent to an OECD agreement on tax havens. The two governments abstained in a vote on the proposals at the OECD ministerial meeting in Paris in April this year.
  • Robeco Groep of the Netherlands is to acquire the New York investment house Weiss Peck & Greer for $575 million.
  • Hambros, the UK investment bank has accepted a £428 million ($685 million) bid from Investec, the South African financial services group. Investec will take Hambros' stake in two fund management companies, a private equity business, a varied collection of investment stakes and more than £200 million in cash. The deal sets up a fight for Guinness Flight Hambro, the fund management company. Investec wants to buy the company but Hambros' management is reluctant to sell.
  • Determining place of supply is a critical issue for VAT purposes. Richard Iferenta and Victoria Nelson of Simmons & Simmons, London look at how to navigate a logical path through areas of uncertainty, using the guidance offered by ECJ rulings