Brussels, 28/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 28 October, the European Commission requested Spain to abolish a Spanish corporate tax provision that allows Spanish companies to amortise goodwill (i.e. to write off over a period of time the excess price paid for the acquisition of a business over the market value of the assets composing it) deriving from acquiring a stake in non-Spanish companies. After an in-depth investigation, opened in October 2007, the Commission concluded that the...