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News & Events
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03-Nov-2011
All G20 governments have now agreed to a multilateral Convention to tackle tax evasion more effectively.
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04-Nov-2011
Tax Transparency 2011: Report on Progress, a report prepared by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, was delivered to the G20 in Cannes and is now available to journalists.
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Tax: The Global Forum keeps up the pressure
14-Apr-2011
New reports by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax purposes assess its members ability to stop international tax evasion.
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28-Jan-2010
On 27 January, tax and development experts decided to set up an Informal Task Force on Tax and Development. With developing countries and other key stakeholders – including NGOs and business – as members, the Task Force will develop clear and effective mechanisms to make progress in the field of tax and development. With a mapping out of existing international efforts as its first assignment, participants agreed on a general set of principles to guide followup action and recognized the importance of working together and with other relevant international institutions. See the full Statement.
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06-Jan-2010
Normative principles provide a relatively clear set of rules for the balance between grants and taxes in the composition of SCGs’ revenues, but in practice, a variety of types of tax-grant systems are observed in OECD countries, which do not all follow these rules. This paper documents the tax-grants balance in OECD countries. It classifies countries into four different SCG finance types according to the relative share of tax-sharing, autonomous taxes and transfers in SCGs revenues.
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10-Dec-2009
After the climate conference in Copenhagen it will be essential to ensure effective policy instruments. Emission trading is a powerful tool that can spur low-cost reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But to work well in practice, some tax issues may need to be addressed. The OECD and its Committee of Fiscal Affairs has put itself at the service of the international community with a policy process bringing together tax and environment experts, including from business.
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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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26-Oct-2009
On October 26-28 in Beijing, China, the International Tax Dialogue conference brought together senior tax policymakers and administrators to discuss how the tax system can best support and promote a healthy and transparent financial environment. The press release is also available in Spanish.
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26-Oct-2009
In his opening remarks to the ITD Global Conference, Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, said that innovation in the financial sector creates particular challenges for tax policy makers and administrators, but also offers unique opportunities.
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15-Oct-2009
The taxation of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) is an important topic for policy makers, as SMEs make up the vast majority of businesses and typically account for the bulk of employment in OECD countries. The OECD has just released Tax Policy Study No. 18: “Taxation of SMEs: Key Issues and Policy Considerations”, which examines a broad range of SME tax issues, including: the possible influence of taxation on SME creation, business structure and growth; arguments for and against tax incentives for SMEs; and measures to address a relatively high tax compliance burden on SMEs.
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Events
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on 17-Dec-2009
In addition to the price of carbon allowances, tax implications of emission trading will affect business incentives to reduce emissions. This side event at the COP15 Copenhagen summit will look will look at how carbon allowances are treated by, for example, corporate income taxes and how carbon markets can integrate globally.
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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.
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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.
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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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