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  • Glaxo Wellcome is set to acquire Polish medicine manufacturer Polfa Poznan following a successful competitive tender with the Ministry of State Treasury in Poland. The £133 million ($220 million) deal will make Glaxo Wellcome the largest pharmaceutical company in Poland.
  • DLJ Merchant Banking Partners II is to acquire an 82% stake in Thermadyne Holdings based in St Louis, USA. Thermadyne is the world's fourth-largest manufacturer of welding and cutting equipment, and operates 14 manufacturing plants in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. The deal is worth $790 million.
  • UK firm Linklaters is advising the four agent banks involved in the recently signed £8 billion ($12.8 billion) Eurotunnel debt restructuring. The deal involved a syndicate of almost 200 banks.
  • UK advertising company GGT has agreed to a takeover by US media services giant Omnicom. The bid was triggered by the loss of key advertising contracts at GGT's US operation, Wells BDDP. The deal is worth £143 million ($230 million).
  • In the May 1997 edition of International Tax Review we briefly commented on proposed changes to regulations regarding a Norwegian parent company's right to credit for underlying foreign corporate taxes relating to dividends received from foreign subsidiaries. The bill passed parliament and is effective for dividends received from the fiscal year 1997.
  • A recent tax court decision raises the possibility that an important new exception may be emerging in the complex statutory thin-capitalization rules which have been in force in Germany since 1994.
  • Under Finland's legislation on the Taxation of Shareholders of Foreign Intermediate Companies (the Act), resident taxpayers in Finland must notify the Finnish tax authorities of their holdings in foreign companies. The resident taxpayers are liable to pay tax on their share of the profits of such companies in accordance with certain conditions.
  • A special report prepared by Christopher Fitzgibbon of Deloitte & Touche, London
  • A special report prepared by Jonathan Stuart-Smith and Tomohiko Kaneko of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Tokyo
  • A new provision and temporary regulations should simplify the complex issues relating to passive foreign investment companies. Unfortunately, the rules inadequately address key issues. By Dale Collinson and Patrick Carmody of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher in New York