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Foreign VAT/GST Refunds – What problems and costs does your business incur when recovering VAT/GST abroad?

01-Jul-2008

The OECD is attempting to estimate the amounts of VAT that businesses are unable to recover, when incurring VAT in foreign countries. Businesses are invited to complete this questionnaire  by Saturday 20 September 2008.

Public comments on the First Consultation Document on applying VAT/GST to cross-border Trade in Services and Intangibles – Emerging Concepts for Defining Place of Taxation

30-Jun-2008

In January 2008, the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs published a first Consultation Document  on Emerging concepts for Defining Place of VAT/GST Taxation of Cross-border Trade in Services and Intangibles. The OECD has now published the comments received on those emerging concepts.

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.

The Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the OECD Model Tax Convention is now Fully Subscribed – Registration no Longer Possible

23-Jun-2008

The OECD has just announced that all available seats for its Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the OECD Model Tax Convention have now been reserved and that registrations from the private sector will no longer be accepted.

Environmentally Related Taxes and Tradable Permit Systems in Practice

11-Jun-2008

When they are applied in a practical setting, environmentally related taxes and tradable permit systems often differ from simple text-book recommendations that only focus on economic efficiency. This note, prepared by Prof. Stephen Smith of University College, London, contains both a theoretical discussion of “real-world” constraints on policy formulation, and an empirical discussion of the Climate Change Levy vs. the domestic greenhouse gas trading system in the UK, as well as of the Landfill tax vs. the Landfill allowance trading system applied in the same country.

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.

 

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.

OECD releases public comments on transactional profit methods issues notes

07-May-2008

On 25 January 2008, the OECD released an invitation to comment on a series of draft issues notes in relation to transactional profit methods (i.e., the transactional profit split and the transactional net margin methods).
 

L'OCDE annonce qu'il est maintenant possible de s'enregistrer pour la Conférence sur le 50ième Anniversaire du Modèle de Convention Fiscale OCDE

29-Apr-2008

29 avril 2008 – L’OCDE vient d’activer le site web de  la conférence sur le 50ième Anniversaire du Modèle de Convention Fiscale OCDE (www.oecd.org/ctp/mtc50years ) et accepte maintenant les enregistrements pour cette conférence, qui aura lieu à Paris les 8-9 septembre 2008 au nouveau Centre de conférences de l’OCDE.




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