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Commentaires publics concernant le premier document de consultation sur l' application de la TVA/TPS aux transactions internationales portant sur les services et les biens incorporels - Concepts émergents en matière de lieu d'imposition

30-Jun-2008

En janvier 2008, le Comité des affaires fiscales de l’OCDE a publié un premier document de consultation concernant les concepts émergents en matière de lieu d’imposition à la TVA/TPS des transactions internationales portant sur les services et les biens incorporels. L'OCDE vient de publier les commentaires reçus sur ces concepts émergents.

Promoting Performance: Using Indicators to Enhance the Effectiveness of Sub Central Spending

13-Jun-2008

This report examines the use of indicator systems for measuring and monitoring the delivery of sub-central public services. Specifically, the report aims to assess if and how central governments use such systems, the critical choices they face when designing and implementing them, and the constraints under which the systems operate.  

Public comments on draft contents of the 2008 Update to the Model Tax Convention

09-Jun-2008

On 21 April 2008, the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs published the draft contents of the 2008 Update to the Model Tax Convention.  The OECD has now published the comments received on that draft.

 

Value-added Taxes: Lessons Learned from Other Countries on Compliance Risks, Administrative Costs, Compliance Burden, and Transition

06-Jun-2008

Although the United States does not deploy a Value Added Tax it does, from time to time, produce reports about this type of tax, the most recent of which is by the US Government's Government Accountability Office.

Market Mechanisms in Sub-Central Public Service Provision

26-May-2008

This paper compares and analyses the use of market mechanisms in core sub central policy areas, namely education, health care, transport, social protection, and environment.

New Chair of the OECD Forum on Tax Administration

05-May-2008

The OECD is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Chair of its Forum on Tax Administration (FTA).  Mr. Pravin Gordhan, Commissioner, South African Revenue Service (SARS) assumed his role as Chair on 1 May 2008.

OECD opens registration for the conference on the 50th anniversary of the OECD Model Tax Convention

29-Apr-2008

29 April 2008 – The OECD has just opened registration and launched the conference website (www.oecd.org/ctp/mtc50years)  for its Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the OECD Model Tax Convention, which will take place in Paris (at the OECD’s new conference centre) on 8-9 September 2008.


Events

OECD and international business community to hold meetings in Tokyo on key tax and investment issues

from 13-Mar-2006 to 14-Mar-2006

The OECD and the international business community are gearing up for a series of meetings next week in Tokyo to discuss ways that they can cooperate to reduce international tax disputes and as a result boost cross-border trade and investment.

OECD invites comments on the application of transactional profit methods

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.

Recent OECD Initiatives to Resolve International Tax Disputes

on 13-Mar-2006

 The OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (the CTPA) is organising, in cooperation with BIAC, a consultation between business and government on recent OECD initiatives to improve dispute settlement procedures under tax treaties.  The consultation meeting will take place on Monday, 13 March 2006, in Tokyo. 

Second Meeting of the Forum on Tax Administration

from 01-Jun-2005 to 02-Jun-2005

The Second meeting of the Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) will be hosted by the Irish Revenue Commissioners.  The FTA was created in 2002 with the aim of promoting dialogue between tax administrations and identifying good tax administration practices.  The purpose of this meeting is to have substantive discussions on compliance related themes.

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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Special Conference: 50th Anniversary of the OECD Model Tax Convention

Conference Web Site

Fighting Offshore Tax Evasion

Grace Perez-Navarro, deputy-director of OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, addresses harmful tax practices, including tax havens, by improving transparency and establishing effective exchange of information.

Nicholas Bray speaks with Grace Perez-Navarro

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A joint initiative by the OECD, IMF and World Bank to facilitate discussion on tax matters

International Tax Dialogue