The Global Tax Surveys equips the tax practitioner facing global tax issues with an indispensable resource. Now including over 90 jurisdictions, the coverage is continuously increased with new country surveys, rates and news, providing a truly global perspective. With the increasing importance of remaining fully up-to-date, IBFD’s Tax News Service complements the Global Tax Surveys serving the latest international taxation news daily. Ensuring that you have the latest dividend, royalty and interest rates, IBFD's dynamic Rates Tables are now embedded in the Global Tax Surveys, including direct links to treaties and articles in IBFD's Tax Treaty Database.

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This year the annual IFA Congress is hosted in Kyoto, Japan, from 30 September to 5 October 2007, and IBFD will be exhibiting at this prestigious event. The main subjects of the conference are “Transfer pricing and intangibles” and “Conflicts in the attribution of income to a person”. IBFD will give presentations and invites you to its stand where congress participants have access to books, online publications, TNS updates and IFA reports.
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Some of the best experts in European Tax Law will meet at Lisbon University, on 17 and 18 September 2007, to analyse and discuss how the general Acte Clair Doctrine can be used to gain a new or different insight into the ECJ jurisprudence in direct tax matters.

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The reports from last year's conference in Lund are published in IBFD’s Towards a Homogeneous EC Direct Taw Law.

Author: Juan Angel Becerra This book is an in-depth overview of the materials, court cases and mutual agreement procedures implemented in Canada, the United States and Mexico. In addition, it provides a background of the development of tax treaty law and the information necessary to interpret a tax treaty based upon the principles codified in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Further information | View excerpt

Editor: Anuschka Bakker
Companies looking to do business abroad are eager to tap into the cheap, yet skilled labour force in emerging economies. There are numerous developments at OECD level, UN level and EU level that are important for companies acting in this field. This book treats the issues relevant to the cross-border mergers and acquisitions that are on the rise, and how M&A is becoming an important entry strategy.
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AMSTERDAM - [October 22 - 23, 2007]
This two-day course is designed to take participants through the important issues surrounding international corporate financing. Participants will be provided with an in-depth analysis of the tax issues arising from the implementation of various cross-border corporate financing techniques.
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KUALA LUMPUR - [October 29 - November 2, 2007]
As well as providing the participants with fundamentals of international taxation, the course includes a substantial section on tax treaty interpretation and application, covering both active and passive income. Participants will be provided with the principles of transfer pricing and an overview of basic tax planning structures, and gain insight into the application of the most common anti-avoidance provisions.
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KUALA LUMPUR - [November 26 - 27, 2007]
This course will give participants an introduction to the most important principles of transfer pricing for tax purposes. Focus will be on OECD aspects of transfer pricing and examples will be used throughout the course.
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