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Type of Agreement Country Country Date Signed Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement New Zealand Saint Kitts & Nevis November 24 2009 Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement Bahamas China December 1 2009 Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement Bahamas Argentina December 3 2009 Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement Bahamas Netherlands December 4 2009 Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement British Virgin Islands Ireland December 7 2009 Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement British Virgin Islands China December 7 2009 Tax Information Exchange Agreement Bahamas Belgium December 7 2009 Link Tax Information Exchange Agreement Bahamas France December 7 2009 Link

The Indian tax authority has sent two senior tax officials to Mauritius and Singapore to ensure that tax treaty arrangements are being maintained.

These English translations of recently published Chinese tax laws and regulations are available now on the website of our sister magazine, China Law and Practice

Two days after the latest UN climate change conference opened in Copenhagen, Ireland has become the latest country to introduce a carbon tax.

The UK chancellor of the exchequer announced a plan to introduce a patent box today but the rest of his pre-Budget report failed to address the key issues troubling taxpayers

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquisition £136 million ($222 million) Palamon Capital Partners Associated Dental Practices Slaughter & May Graham Earles Acquisition Undisclosed Alstom/Schneider Areva Transmission & Distribution Arsene Taxand Frederic Donnedieu de Vabres, Laurent Partouche & Laurent Mamou Merger Undisclosed Cable Onda Telecarrier Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Integration Undisclosed Aldermore Bank Absolute Invoice Finance Holdings SJ Berwin Dominic Adams Type of Deal Value Issuer/Borrower Lead managers/arrangers Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax) Adviser to lead managers (tax) Notes Issue €750 million ($1.11 billion) Lottomatica Group Banca IMI, Calyon Crédit Agricole CIB, The Royal Bank of Scotland & UniCredit Group Shearman & Sterling Bond Issue A$200 million ($185 million) Commonwealth Property Office Fund Citigroup Mallesons Stephen Jaques Richard Snowden

Baker & McKenzie in Australia have appointed Tim Sherman as tax partner at the firm's Sydney office.

Julie Marion has become a tax partner of Latham & Watkins in its Chicago office. She advises companies on acquisitions, joint ventures, insolvency and restructurings, tax planning and international tax matters. She also works on partnership and related tax matters in connection with the formation of joint ventures and investments using pass-through structures, and is a specialist in energy tax credit partnerships.

The Belgian tax authorities have altered the sequence taxpayers must undertake when claiming notional interest deductions

Taxpayers have talked about the implementation of a value-added tax (VAT) in the US for years, but consensus was that the politics of the proposal would make that untenable