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News
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30-Aug-2011
Due to the recent financial and economic crisis, global corporate losses have increased significantly. Numbers at stake are vast, with loss carry-forwards as high as 25% of GDP in some countries. Though most of these claims are justified, some corporations find loop-holes and use ‘aggressive tax planning’ to avoid taxes in ways that are not within the spirit of the law.
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29-Aug-2011
The OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) is pleased to announce that Mr. Joseph Andrus has been appointed Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit within the CTPA’s Tax Treaty, Transfer Pricing and Financial Transactions Division. He will take up his position on 1st October 2011 following the departure of Ms. Caroline Silberztein.
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17-May-2011
OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría, welcomed the recent proposal of new draft transfer pricing legislation by the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Finance.
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28-Jan-2010
On 24 November 2009, the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs released for public comment a proposed draft of the new Article 7 of the Model Tax Convention. The OECD has now published the comments received on this consultation draft.
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14-Jan-2010
On 9 September 2009, the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs released for public comment a proposed revision of Chapters I-III of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations. The OECD has now published the comments received on this document.
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25-Nov-2009
24-Nov-2009 to 21-Jan-2010
On 24 November 2009, the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs approved the release, for public comment, of a revised draft of a new Article 7 (Business Profits) of the OECD Model Tax Convention and of related Commentary changes. The new Article 7 is aimed at ensuring the full application of the Report on Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments that the OECD adopted in 2008. Comments on the revised draft should be sent before 21 January 2010 to Jeffrey Owens, Director, CTPA (jeffrey.owens@oecd.org).
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20-Nov-2009
On 19-20 November the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) was launched by the President of Uganda. The ATAF mission is to mobilize domestic resources more effectively and increase the accountability of African States to African citizens whilst actively promoting an improvement in tax administration through sharing experiences, benchmarking and peer reviewing best practices.
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25-Sep-2009
Two key objectives of the OECD work on the mutual agreement procedure (MAP) under tax treaties were to improve the timeliness of processing and completing MAP cases and to enhance the transparency of the MAP process. To those ends, the OECD has decided to make available to the public, via its website, annual statistics on the MAP caseloads of member countries and of non-OECD economies that agree to provide such statistics.
MAP statistics have now been provided for 2006 and 2007. Statistics for subsequent reporting periods will be posted on the OECD website as they become available.
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22-Sep-2009
On 21-22 September 2009, the OECD held a major conference “Transfer Pricing and Treaties in a Changing World”. Almost 700 transfer pricing and treaty experts from over 90 governments (OECD and non-OECD), the private sector, NGOs, academia and international organisations gathered in Paris for the event. In his opening address, Jeffrey Owens, Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, stressed the significance of transfer pricing for OECD as well as non-OECD economies.
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09-Sep-2009
On 7 September 2009, the OECD released the 2009 edition of its Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations. This edition incorporates an update of Chapter IV to reflect the latest developments in the area of dispute resolution as well as updates to the Foreword, Preface and Council Recommendation. It was released in time for the Conference Transfer Pricing and Treaties in a Changing World.
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Events
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from 22-May-2007 to 23-May-2007
2nd Joint WCO/OECD Conference: "Transfer Pricing, Indirect Taxes and VAT : Exploring possible convergences" - 22-23 May 2007, WCO headquarters, Brussels
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from 09-Sep-2009 to 09-Jan-2010
On 9 September, the OECD released for public comment a proposed revision of Chapters I-III of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations. This follows from the release in May 2006 of a discussion draft on comparability issues and in January 2008 of a discussion draft on transactional profit methods, and from discussions with commentators during a two-day consultation that was held in November 2008. Interested parties are invited to submit comments by 9 January 2010 to Jeffrey Owens, Director,CTPA (jeffrey.owens@oecd.org).
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from 21-Sep-2009 to 22-Sep-2009
The Conference website for this major event is now live. Check the Conference programme, related background material, details on speakers, as well as practical information. Register now to secure your place!
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from 09-Jun-2009 to 10-Jun-2009
On 9-10 June 2009, the OECD held a consultation with business commentators on its discussion draft on the transfer pricing aspects of business restructurings which was released for public comment in September 2008.
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from 07-Jul-2008 to 31-Dec-2008
On 24 June 2008, the Committee on Fiscal Affairs approved the Report on Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments. It also approved the release, for public comment, of the second part of the implementation package for the conclusions of that Report, i.e. a new version of Article 7 and its Commentary. This new Article and related Commentary changes are now being released as a discussion draft for public comment. Comments should be sent before 31 December 2008 to Jeffrey Owens, Director, CTPA (jeffrey.owens@oecd.org).
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from 10-May-2006 to 30-Nov-2006
The OECD releases an invitation to comment on a series of draft issues notes on comparability that was developed by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs Working Party No. 6, building on experience acquired by countries since the adoption of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines in 1995 and on comments received from the business community in response to an open questionnaire released in 2003.
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from 03-May-2006 to 04-May-2006
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held the first joint WCO/OECD Conference on Transfer Pricing and Customs Valuation in Brussels on 3-4 May 2006.
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from 05-Jun-2006 to 06-Jun-2006
This event, which took place in Washington, D.C. , was a one-stop-shop for U.S. business representatives to get updates on priority OECD tax work and meet OECD staff and key government officials who set tax standards for the global economy. Featured speakers included: Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah); Ambassador Constance Morella, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OECD; Hal Hicks, International Tax Counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Jeffrey Owens, Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
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from 28-Feb-2006 to 31-Aug-2006
The OECD is now issuing an open invitation to contribute on a number of issues in relation to transactional profit methods. As part of its procedures for monitoring the implementation of the 1995 Transfer Pricing Guidelines, Working Party No 6 of the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs has selected the application of transactional profit methods as one of two areas to be considered in priority.
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