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ITD 3rd Global Conference on Financial Institutions and Instruments - Tax Challenges and Solutions

27-Aug-2009

Register now for the International Tax Dialogue (ITD) Global Conference ‘Financial Institutions and Instruments – Tax Challenges and Solutions’, Beijing, China, 26-28 October 2009. 

Nominations de hauts responsable: Stephen Matthews, économiste fiscal principal et Chef de la division de la politique fiscale et des statistiques

07-May-2009

Le Centre de politique et d'administration fiscales a le plaisir d’annoncer que Stephen Matthews a été nommé économiste fiscal principal et Chef de la division de la politique fiscale et des statistiques. 

Fiscal drag hits some taxpayers harder than others, new OECD study shows

11-Mar-2008

Families with children have paid less in tax as a percentage of their income in recent years in Australia, Hungary, Ireland and New Zealand, thanks to family-friendly tax policies, but wage-earners in some other OECD countries, including Greece, Iceland, Korea and Mexico, have wound up with higher tax bills due to so-called fiscal drag.

OECD countries’ tax burdens back up to 2000 historic highs

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.

OECD countries’ tax burdens back up to 2000 historic highs

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.


Events

ITD 3rd Global Conference on Financial Institutions and Instruments - Tax Challenges and Solutions

from 26-Oct-2009 to 28-Oct-2009

Register now for the International Tax Dialogue (ITD) Global Conference ‘Financial Institutions and Instruments – Tax Challenges and Solutions’, Beijing, China, 26-28 October 2009. 

Seminar on Tax Reform Trends held at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Madrid

on 16-May-2005

The main purpose was to provide an open debate regarding the alternatives of tax reform in different areas: corporate and wealth taxation, personal income tax and indirect taxes and green taxation.  A selected group of experts from the OECD, the Spanish Tax Administration and the academic world took part in the debate, providing an international perspective and a multidisciplinary approach which are both essential for the designing of any tax reform.  See presentation  (also in Spanish) by Jeffrey Owens of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration.

The President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform

on 31-Mar-2005

Speech  and presentation  by Jeffrey Owens, Head of the OECD's Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform.  This conference  took place in San Francisco on 31 March 2005.



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