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Strengthening Tax Audit Capabilities: General Principles and Approaches

24-Oct-2006

This information note focuses on audit programmes and the conduct of individual audits.  It identifies common key features of audit activity found in a wide variety of tax administrations and outlines the principles underpinning these characteristics.

Strengthening Tax Audit Capabilities: Auditor Workforce Management—Survey Findings and Observations

24-Oct-2006

The purpose of this note is to report the findings, observations and international comparisons derived from a survey of auditor workforce management approaches adopted in selected OECD countries. 

Tax revenues on the rise in many OECD countries, OECD report shows

11-Oct-2006

Tax revenues, measured as the ratio of tax to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), are rising in many OECD countries despite deep cuts in tax rates, according to a new OECD report, reflecting both the effects of stronger economic growth, which has led to higher corporate profits, and moves in some countries to offset the effects of cuts in tax rates by broadening the tax base and improving tax compliance.

Committee on Fiscal Affairs releases outcome of review of preferential tax regimes in OECD countries

25-Sep-2006

The OECD has released a report on the progress in eliminating harmful tax practices in OECD countries. The report follows on from the 2004 Progress Report and updates the assessment of the preferential tax regimes in OECD countries that were identified as potentially harmful in the 2000 report, "Towards Global Tax Co-operation". 

OECD Tax Database - new data

25-Sep-2006

Updated information is now avaible on Taxation of Corporate and Capital Income and Taxation of Wage Income.

Transactional Profit Methods: Responses to the OECD Invitation to Comment

18-Sep-2006

On 27 February 2006 the OECD released an open invitation to comment on a number of issues in relation to transactional profit methods described in the OECD's Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations.  Numerous contributions have now been received and will be carefully examined by Working Party No. 6 on the Taxation of Multinational Enterprises.

OECD tax administrators to join forces in fighting tax non-compliance

15-Sep-2006

OECD tax administrators meeting in Seoul agreed to work together on ways to improve tax administration and to address the significant and growing problem of international non-compliance with national tax requirements. See their Seoul Declaration.

Tax Policy Development in Denmark, Italy, the Slovak Republic and Turkey

20-Jul-2006

Tax reform is an on-going process, with tax systems continuously adopting to reflect changing economic, social and political circumstances. Over the last two decades, almost all OECD countries have undertaken structural changes in their tax system which have altered the way these systems function and their economic and social impacts. This document focuses on Denmark, Italy, the Slovak Republic and Turkey who recently presented tax reforms at the meetings of Working Party N° 2 on Tax Policy Analysis and Tax Statistics

OECD invites India to participate in its Committee on Fiscal Affairs

17-Jul-2006

OECD countries agreed to invite India to participate as an Observer in the OECD's Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA), as part of a drive to broaden involvement by major non-OECD economies in the Organisation's work. India will join Argentina, Chile, China, Russia and South Africa as Observer to the CFA.

The OECD Bribery Awareness Handbook for Tax Examiners

12-Jul-2006

The OECD has designed a handbook to provide tax examiners with information on the various bribery techniques used and the tools to detect and identify bribes.




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