July / August 2002

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World's leading tax advisers: Part 3 - North America: North America bunkers down

Push to remove tax barriers to pan-European pensions

New stock option tax system

Sale or transfer of shares issued during a restructuring

Three Supreme Court decisions on the penalty tax and the European Convention on Human Rights

Companies given thin capitalization criteria

Privilege in tax investigations upheld as a fundamental human right

New competent authority revenue procedure includes significant changes

Deals

White & Case snaps up Czech tax team

Freshfields Dutch tax head quits for local firm

Bird & Bird expands international tax practice

Baker & McKenzie lures Allen & Overy’s head of US tax

Werksmans poaches Grant Thornton chairman for tax group

Torys grabs Andersen lawyers for New York office

JP Morgan private bank hires PricewaterhouseCoopers partner

McDermott Will & Emery nabs Andersen partner

Alston & Bird

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Cahill Gordon & Reindel

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Ernst & Young

Fenwick & West LLP

Fulbright & Jaworski LLP

KPMG

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

McDermott, Will & Emery

Millar Wyslobicky Kreklewetz LLP

Miller & Chevalier

Ogilvy Renault

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Thorsteinssons, Tax Lawyers

Torys LLP

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Isle of Man heads for 0% tax rate

US competitiveness bill could backfire

Accounting crisis sparks reform

US tax groups call for simplification

India rejects review of Mauritius tax treaty

EU brands US steel exclusions 'insufficient'

Gibraltar introduces 0% tax rate

EU savings tax directive under threat

Corporate inversions in the spotlight

European VAT system fights for survival

Mexican transfer pricing under the microscope

Inside Washington

How to comply with India's transfer pricing rules

Inland Revenue overruled by legal privilege

Getting the most out of Japanese restructuring

Final regulations for domestic reverse hybrids in the US

Knowledge intangibles -- leveraging the tax advantages

EU gets serious about tax harmonization

Tax consolidation affects M&A

Financial transactions tax extended to 2004

Apportionment of service income partly exempt from profits tax; Amnesty for tax evaders

ECJ postpones ruling on Austrian dividends received tax; ECJ hears case on German thin capitalization rules

Court denies use of dividend tax credits in abusive corporate income tax transactions

Court decision limits anti-mailbox company provision

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