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News & Events
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20-Jun-2008
An overlapping-generations model with search unemployment is calibrated for the Netherlands to assess the impact of tax-benefit reforms on labour supply. Several reforms are analysed, in particular the introduction of a flat tax and pension reforms. The model demonstrates the potential of these reforms to raise labour supply.
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11-Jun-2008
Canada is a top OECD performer and has done remarkably well in boosting female employment, reducing unemployment, avoiding Dutch disease, and cutting the debt and tax burdens. Recent macroeconomic performance has been strong, and Canada is weathering the global financial crisis and slowdown as well as can be expected.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Events
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
www.itdweb.org
A joint initiative by the OECD, IMF and World Bank to facilitate discussion on tax matters
International Tax Dialogue
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Taxation in the Global Context: Developing our Co-operation with Non-OECD Economies
A new interactive tool to calculate your benefit entitlements and tax burdens
