Measures of Tax Compliance Outcomes - A Practical Guide

This study provides practical guidance to revenue bodies wishing to enhance and enrich their existing measures with timely measures of compliance outcomes. The study shares experiences of what has worked for revenue bodies, what challenges have been faced and how they might be overcome.

Comments published on BEPS Action 11 request for input

On 4 August 2014, interested parties were invited to comment on BEPS Action 11 regarding work on establishing methodologies to collect and analyse data on BEPS and the actions to address it. Comments received have now been published.

Related Documents

• Planned stakeholder input in OECD tax matters
• Previous stakeholder input in OECD tax matters

OECD issues revised calendar for stakeholder consultation

Input from relevant stakeholders is essential in order to develop the measures envisaged in the BEPS Action Plan. The timetable for stakeholders’ input is now available on line with the dates when discussion drafts will be published and public consultations held in relation to the 2015 BEPS outputs.

Tax benefits from company cars

Company cars form a large proportion of the car fleet in many countries and are influential in determining the composition of the wider vehicle fleet. When employees provided with a company car use it for personal purposes, personal income tax rules value the benefit in a number of different ways. How accurate these rules are in valuing the benefit has important implications for tax revenue, the environment and other social impacts.

Under-taxing drivers is bad for environment and health, OECD says

Advanced economies are pushing up carbon emissions, traffic congestion and air pollution by under-taxing company cars and diesel fuel, according to new OECD research.

Developed and developing countries gather at the OECD to tackle BEPS

Almost 300 senior tax officials from more than 100 countries and international organisations met in Paris on 25-26 September 2014 during the 19th Annual Global Forum on Tax Treaties to discuss solutions to unintended double non-taxation caused by base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS).

OECD and G20 pursue efforts to curb multinational tax avoidance and offshore tax evasion in developing countries

The OECD has been mandated by the G20 to develop toolkits to support developing countries addressing base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) and to launch pilot tests to assist them to move towards automatic exchange of information.

Related Documents

• Reports related to the OECD/G20 BEPS Project
• G20 Communiqué: Meeting of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, Cairns, 20-21 September 2014
• Global standard for the automatic exchange of information between jurisdictions

Part 2 of a report to G20 Development Working Group on the impact of BEPS in Low Income Countries

At the G20’s request, the OECD is leading the development of a strategy to address base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS). The Development Working Group has asked the OECD to draw together the experiences of developing countries and international organisations in a report on the main sources of BEPS in developing countries and how these relate to the OECD/G20 BEPS Action Plan on this issue.

BEPS 2014 Deliverables

The OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA), bringing together 44 countries on an equal footing (all OECD members, OECD accession countries, and G20 countries), has adopted a first set of seven deliverables described in the Action Plan and due in 2014.

Guidance on Transfer Pricing Aspects of Intangibles

This document contains revisions to the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines to align transfer pricing outcomes with value creation in the area of intangibles. The changes clarify the definition of intangibles and provide guidance for related parties; including transactions involving intangibles and the transfer pricing treatment of local market features and corporate synergies. Some transfer pricing issues relating to intangibles are