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15-Oct-2008
Denmark is confirmed as the OECD’s highest-tax country, followed by Sweden, while Mexico and Turkey remain the lowest-taxing countries, according to figures in the latest edition of the OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics publication.
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30-Sep-2008
Advances are being achieved in bringing greater transparency to financial centres around the world, but progress on exchange of information on tax issues is more limited, according to OECD’s latest report on its drive to bring more fairness to cross-border tax co-operation.
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23-Sep-2008
On the occasion of the 8-9 September 2008 OECD Conference marking the 50th Anniversary of the OECD Model Tax Convention, Peter A. Barnes, Tax Counsel - International with General Electric Company of Fairfield, Connecticut in the United States, explained the great importance of the Model from the perspective of international business. His article appears in the OECD Observer.
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19-Sep-2008
On 19 September 2008, the Committee on Fiscal Affairs released for public comment a discussion draft on the transfer pricing aspects of business restructurings. Comments should be sent before 19 February 2009 to Jeffrey Owens, Director, CTPA (jeffrey.owens@oecd.org).
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08-Sep-2008
In his remarks, Angel Gurría underlined that throughout these five decades, the OECD Model Tax Convention has established itself as the means of settling the most common problems that arise in the field of international taxation on a uniform basis.
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18-Jul-2008
On 17 July 2008, the OECD Council approved the release of the final Report on the Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments. An interim version of Parts I-III of the Report had previously been released in December 2006, and a discussion draft version of Part IV was released in August 2007. The Report was subsequently finalised and approved by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs on 24 June 2008.
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18-Jul-2008
On 17 July 2008, the OECD Council approved the contents of the 2008 Update to the OECD Model Tax Convention. The update had previously been released as a public discussion draft in April 2008. It was subsequently finalised and approved by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs on 25 June, when the Committee also approved a detailed response to the comments that had been sent on the discussion draft.
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18-Jul-2008
An Informal Consultative Group of business and government representatives continues its work on improving procedures for claiming treaty benefits, while protecting the compliance interests of governments. This update reflects progress made in the past year on technical issues relating to granting treaty benefits with respect to income of collective investment vehicles, as well as procedural issues that affect portfolio investors more generally. The final report of the Group is expected to be presented to the Committee on Fiscal Affairs in January 2009.
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