I apolosise, despite promising to give an outline of the new draft M&A tax rules today I have been swamped at work. I will endeavour to get this done over the weekend.
On a related note, yours truly and a couple of China M&A practitioners will be taking part in a M&A seminar hosted by Aust-Cham [...]

In China, past lenient tax practices resulted in the development of poor tax practices. One in particular has been the practice of splitting employees salaries into two components (on-shore and off-shore) with only one being reported (the on-shore component) to the tax authorities in China. Where the employee was a foreign expatriate, depending upon the [...]

According to local media reports, rival Chinese video websites Youku.com and Tudou.com have formed an alliance and jointly launched a new online video joint broadcast model, sharing the copyright of each other's exclusive videos.
The two parties said they hope to expand the cooperative range of this new model. Apart from the sharing of exclusive videos, [...]

As usual, Washington Post columnist George Will strings together a bunch of statistics in his latest column, hoping that no one will notice that he fails to connect the dots. It's like a cryptographic puzzle — take these 47 numbers and try to figure out what their relationship is to one another. Gives me a [...]

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