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Andersen Tax has appointed Brad Rode as a managing director in the commercial practice group in Chicago office.

The tax payments of Airbnb, Google, Facebook and Amazon have prompted the French finance minister to push, together with Germany, for the EU harmonisation of corporate tax rates. But will this solve the ‘paying a fair share’ argument, or does the problem lie with domestic PE rules?

The Belgian government is bringing down corporate tax rates

The four founders of TaxCOOP, Brigitte Alepin, Allison Christians, Lyne Latulippe, and Louise Otis introduce their forum for developing good tax policy.

Type of Deal Value Acquirer Target Adviser to acquirer (tax) Adviser to target (tax) Acquistion $10.4 billion Vantiv Inc Worldpay Group (United Kingdom) Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Allen & Overy Acquisition $5.2 billion Walgreens Boots Alliance Rite Aid Corporation (Sale of 2,186 stores, related distribution assets and inventory) Sidley Austin; Weil, Gotshal & Manges Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Chase Wink); Jones Day Acquisition $2.8 billion Internet Brands WebMD Health Corp Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (Rob Holo and Sophie Staples) Shearman & Sterling (Ethan Harris and Ryan Au) Acquisition $2.2 billion (approx.) A wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Philips Holding USA Inc The Spectranetics Corporation Sullivan & Cromwell (Eric Wang and Michelle Lu)

Google triumphs, but its French tax woes are not yet over

Read this month's special features on tax technology and transformation, Mexico and New Zealand

The tax status and characterisation of passive holding companies has gained renewed interest with Article 7 of the OECD’s Multilateral Instrument (MLI) containing some reference to these entities. Mauro Manca of Giovannelli e Associati looks at how these structures can still work if there are sound organisational reasons in the MNE structure.

Richard Murphy, professor of practice in international political economy at City, University of London, argues that we do not need multinational tax returns to be made public, but better accounting is vital.