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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.
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25-Apr-2008
Two new bilateral arrangements for the exchange of information for tax purposes, between Guernsey and the Netherlands and between the Isle of Man and Ireland, bring to fourteen the number of such agreements signed since the beginning of 2007 by jurisdictions committed to work with OECD countries.
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21-Apr-2008
From 21 April to 31 May 2008
The OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs has just released the draft contents of the 2008 update to the OECD Model Tax Convention, which will be finalized in June. The contents of the 2008 update result primarily from reports that have already been released for comments; the draft update also includes, however, a few other technical changes that have not previously been released (see Part I of the report) and on which comments are particularly invited. Comments on the 2008 update to the Model Tax Convention should be sent to jeffrey.owens@oecd.org by 31 May 2008.
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18-Apr-2008
Germany has joined 15 other countries in signing the OECD-Council of Europe Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, in a step that will help it to combat cross-border tax evasion more effectively in today’s open global economy.
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17-Apr-2008
In May 2007 the OECD responded favourably to requests from Chile, Estonia, Israel, Russia, and Slovenia to begin a process aimed at eventual membership in the OECD by these countries. The Committee on Fiscal Affairs has agreed that input should be sought from business and NGOs in the process of assessing how far the applicant countries meet the core principles and, in particular, in their application.
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27-Mar-2008
Tables with a simplified version of National Accounts data on intergovernmental transfers are now updated. The tables contain data up to the year 2006.
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14-Mar-2008
In this joint press statement Mr. Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General and Ms. Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian Minister of Finance address the issue of cross-border tax evasion.
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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.
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26-Feb-2008
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.
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19-Feb-2008
Disclosures concerning alleged widespread tax evasion by German citizens through Liechtenstein highlight a much broader challenge in today's globalised economy: how to respond to countries and territories that seek to profit from tax dodging by residents of other jurisdictions.
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