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  • The Advocate-General has issued his opinion in the ICI v Colmer case before the European Court. The issue was whether a consortium company with EU trading subsidiaries (as opposed to wholly or mainly UK subsidiaries) would qualify under provisions allowing surrender of losses. The House of Lords in the UK had ruled that EU companies did not qualify under the UK legislation.
  • The entry into force in the US, on January 1 1997, of the IRS's final regulations under Section 301.7701 of the Internal Revenue Code (the so-called check-the-box regulations) requires a new analysis of the classification of Spanish legal entities.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • By virtue of article 115 quinquies of the French tax code, after-tax profits realized by foreign companies in France (especially through a French branch) are deemed to be distributed to non-French tax resident partners, and are subject to a 25% branch tax (with possible limitation or exemption, depending on the applicable tax treaty).
  • As part of its April 26 1995 technical bill of proposed amendments to the Canadian Federal Income Tax Act, Canada's Department of Finance released sweeping changes to the definition of, and rules relating to, the concept of taxable Canadian property (TCP).
  • A special report prepared by Jonathan Stuart-Smith and Tomohiko Kaneko of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Tokyo
  • Compaq Computers is to merge with Digital Equipment Corporation. The deal, valued at approximately $9.6 billion, is the largest in the history of the computer industry and will create the world's second-largest computer company after International Business Machines (IBM).
  • The Internet Tax Freedom Act – legislation seeking to impose a national moratorium on US state and local taxation of the Internet and electronic commerce conducted over the Internet – was introduced in March 1997 in the US Congress by representative Christopher Cox, a Republican member of the House from California, and senator Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon.