Taxation and Tax Policy

The OECD assesses tax policy as part of its mandate for overall surveillance of structural policy. This involves comparing tax design and policy across Member countries, analysing their impact on economic efficiency and income distribution and drawing specific country recommendations.

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OECD Secretary-General's speech "Beyond the crisis: for a stronger, cleaner, fairer world economy"

24-Mar-2009

At the China Development Forum on 21 March, Angel Gurría said "The crisis struck at a time of great global interdependence. Even those countries that were not at the epicentre of the initial financial turmoil and downturns in housing markets are now experiencing the reverberations from these shocks. Contrary to past financial and economic crises, this one is truly global".

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