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  • Dean Yoost and Daisuke Miyajima, Coopers & Lybrand, Tokyo alert readers to a new area of focus for Japan’s National Tax Administration. Advice is offered on what to expect and on how to prepare the best defence strategies
  • Fink leaves Deloitte & Touche for investment bank
  • Argos, the UK retail company, has accepted a £1.6 billion ($2.66 billion) bid from rival Great Universal Stores. The 650 pence ($11) a share offer was approved by 58% of shareholders. The deal was secured despite months of resistance from Argos directors. It will create one of the UK's largest retail companies.
  • 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 oil company Arco is to buy Union Texas Petroleum for $3.3 billion. The cash deal includes debt and preferred stock, and will be financed by commercial paper and other short-term borrowings. After-tax savings of at least $85 million a year are expected as a result of the acquisition.
  • General Electric Company has made an agreed bid of $1.4 billion for Tracor, a Texas-based electronics company.
  • Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo, Spain's fifth-largest savings bank, has bought the Spanish operations of UK bank Abbey National. The deal is valued at £120 million ($195 million).
  • Since our last Russia update in the March issue of International Tax Review, there have been a number of significant legislative and judicial developments. These include: amendments to the Law on Excise Tax and the Law on Securities Tax; important rulings by the Constitutional Court concerning pension fund contributions for individual entrepreneurs; the confiscation of goods and vehicles by Customs authorities; and enactment of a Federal Law on the 1998 budget.
  • The French tax authorities recently reasserted their wish to resort to additional measures to improve the effectiveness of transfer pricing controls.
  • A sudden influx of tax reform in the UK has taken many corporations by surprise. Iain Muir, head of tax at Bass, talks to Oliver Ralph about the challenges involved, and the need for objectivity on all sides of the tax equation