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News & Events
News
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24-Jan-2012
There is scope for Switzerland to increase growth and equity through reforms of the tax system on all levels of government. See this survey of how this could be achieved in detail.
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23-Jan-2012
Less income inequality and more growth - can both be achived? A recent OECD study sheds new light on the link between policies that boost growth and the distribution of income.
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19-Jan-2012
The 7th meeting of the Forum on Tax Administration, which brought together the heads of tax administrations from 43 countries, concluded with a unified and strengthened commitment to combat offshore tax abuse.
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19-Jan-2012
The 7th meeting of the Forum on Tax Administration, which brought together the heads of tax administrations from 43 countries, concluded with a unified and strengthened commitment to combat offshore tax abuse.
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17-Jan-2012
Chile’s fiscal rule has served the country well, but more could be done to streghen its fiscal framework. An independent fiscal council would contribute to maintaining the transparency of the fiscal rule and its accountability. Higher tax revenues will be needed to finance long-term spending increases.
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11-Jan-2012
Ms. Marlies de Ruiter has been appointed Head of the Tax Treaty, Transfer Pricing and Financial Transactions Division of the OECD's Center for Tax Policy and Administration to replace Mary Bennett. She will take up her duties on 1 February 2012.
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02-Jan-2012
The differential between the interest rate paid to service government debt and the growth rate of the economy is a key concept in assessing fiscal sustainability. Among OECD economies, this differential was unusually low for much of the last decade compared with the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s.
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02-Jan-2012
The Czech fiscal position is generally sound and policy making is prudent. However, the fiscal framework was not strong enough to contain spending in the upturn and it would benefit from independent budget oversight. An anchor for the fiscal policy would be helpful, in the form of an explicit debt target coupled with corresponding spending ceilings and deficit targets.
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16-Dec-2011
Uruguay has signed 7 new agreements providing for the exchange of tax information, showing its willingness to implement the global standards. This brings to a total of 18 the number of agreements Uruguay has with other countries, allowing it to move up to the OECD’s list of those that have ‘substantially implemented the standard for exchange of information’.
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12-Dec-2011
Like the OECD, VAT has also been around for about 50 years. Is it time to reform some of the older, more unwieldy versions and go for a trimmer, broad-base, standard-rate VAT system instead?
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Events
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from 22-May-2007 to 23-May-2007
2nd Joint WCO/OECD Conference: "Transfer Pricing, Indirect Taxes and VAT : Exploring possible convergences" - 22-23 May 2007, WCO headquarters, Brussels
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on 17-Dec-2009
In addition to the price of carbon allowances, tax implications of emission trading will affect business incentives to reduce emissions. This side event at the COP15 Copenhagen summit will look will look at how carbon allowances are treated by, for example, corporate income taxes and how carbon markets can integrate globally.
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from 09-Sep-2009 to 09-Jan-2010
On 9 September, the OECD released for public comment a proposed revision of Chapters I-III of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations. This follows from the release in May 2006 of a discussion draft on comparability issues and in January 2008 of a discussion draft on transactional profit methods, and from discussions with commentators during a two-day consultation that was held in November 2008. Interested parties are invited to submit comments by 9 January 2010 to Jeffrey Owens, Director,CTPA (jeffrey.owens@oecd.org).
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from 26-Oct-2009 to 28-Oct-2009
Register now for the International Tax Dialogue (ITD) Global Conference ‘Financial Institutions and Instruments – Tax Challenges and Solutions’, Beijing, China, 26-28 October 2009.
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from 21-Sep-2009 to 22-Sep-2009
The Conference website for this major event is now live. Check the Conference programme, related background material, details on speakers, as well as practical information. Register now to secure your place!
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from 09-Jun-2009 to 10-Jun-2009
On 9-10 June 2009, the OECD held a consultation with business commentators on its discussion draft on the transfer pricing aspects of business restructurings which was released for public comment in September 2008.
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from 05-Jun-2009 to 14-Aug-2009
The deadline to complete the survey into the VAT “lost” by businesses has been extended to Friday 14 August 2009. The survey was launched for businesses due to the difficulties of recovering tax incurred in countries other than their own.
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from 07-Jul-2008 to 31-Dec-2008
On 24 June 2008, the Committee on Fiscal Affairs approved the Report on Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments. It also approved the release, for public comment, of the second part of the implementation package for the conclusions of that Report, i.e. a new version of Article 7 and its Commentary. This new Article and related Commentary changes are now being released as a discussion draft for public comment. Comments should be sent before 31 December 2008 to Jeffrey Owens, Director, CTPA (jeffrey.owens@oecd.org).
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