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Consumption taxes maintain a high profile as revenue collecting instruments throughout the world. For the OECD area the long-term trend is increasing revenue yield from consumption taxes. Value added type taxes are at the forefront of this trend. 29 of 30 Member countries now have a VAT/GST.
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from 10-Jan-2008 to 30-Apr-2008
The OECD has today released a consultation paper, produced in co-operation with business experts and academics, that considers some of the fundamental concepts that underlie the application of value added taxes to cross-border supplies of services and intangibles. This has been produced as part of the preparatory work on the development of the OECD International VAT/GST Guidelines. Any comments on this paper should be sent to david.holmes@oecd.org and stephane.buydens@oecd.org by 30 April 2008.
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17-Oct-2007
The average tax burden in OECD countries, measured as the ratio of tax to gross domestic product (GDP), is back up to the same levels as in 2000 after a brief reduction between 2001 and 2004, according to figures in the latest edition of the OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics publication.
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04-May-2007
The OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. David Butler as Head of its Tax Administration and Consumption Taxes Division.
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