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23-Oct-2009
Following the publication in July 2009 of the OECD Economic Survey on Greece, the attached op-ed, signed by Andrew Dean Director of Country Studies at the OECD Economics Department, was published in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini the week after the elections of October 4, 2009. The article aims at enhancing the OECD policy message about the pressing need for Greece to improve its government financial situation and efficiency of the public sector during this current legislature.
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20-Oct-2009
The report from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament examines the use of the provisions on mutual assistance for the recovery of claims relating to certain levies, duties, taxes and other measures in 2005-2008.
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16-Oct-2009
The global financial and economic crisis has struck Iceland with extreme force. Iceland’s three main banks, accounting for almost all of the banking system, failed in October 2008. They were unable to resist the deterioration in global financial markets following the failure of Lehman Brothers.
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16-Oct-2009
Monetary and fiscal policies face huge challenges: the banking sector has collapsed; the economy is in the midst of a deep recession; the exchange rate has plunged; capital flows have been frozen; inflation is elevated; public debt has risen; source of revenues have disappeared; social needs have increased; and the unemployment insurance fund has been nearly depleted.
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12-Oct-2009
This paper, prepared by Rana Roy, Consulting Economist, London, UK, addresses the scope for CO2-based differentiation in motor vehicle taxes, both under conditions of equilibrium and in the context of the current global recession.
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09-Oct-2009
This paper was prepared by Ralf Martin, London School of Economics, and Ulrich Wagner, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, as a contribution to the project on Taxation, Innovation and the Environment. It presents an econometric study of impacts of the Climate Change Levy in the United Kingdom on fuel use and innovation.
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Events
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from 08-Dec-2006 to 16-Feb-2007
The Committee on Fiscal Affairs invites comments on the discussion draft dealing with the tax treaty treatment of services. The discussion draft includes proposed changes to the Commentary on Articles 5 and 17 of the OECD Model Tax Convention. Comments on the proposed changes should be sent to the Secretariat, to the attention of jeffrey.owens@oecd.org before Friday 17 February 2007.
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from 10-May-2006 to 30-Nov-2006
The OECD releases an invitation to comment on a series of draft issues notes on comparability that was developed by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs Working Party No. 6, building on experience acquired by countries since the adoption of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines in 1995 and on comments received from the business community in response to an open questionnaire released in 2003.
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from 03-May-2006 to 04-May-2006
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held the first joint WCO/OECD Conference on Transfer Pricing and Customs Valuation in Brussels on 3-4 May 2006.
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on 13-Mar-2006
The OECD, in cooperation with the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC) and with the support of the broader business community, held a public consultation in Tokyo to present its 2006 Public Discussion Draft and consult with business on specific proposals to improve the process for resolving international tax disputes. Attending the conference were senior tax executives from large multinational companies, international tax experts and academics, representatives from OECD Member governments and key participants from the OECD’s groups dealing with this issue.
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from 05-Jun-2006 to 06-Jun-2006
This event, which took place in Washington, D.C. , was a one-stop-shop for U.S. business representatives to get updates on priority OECD tax work and meet OECD staff and key government officials who set tax standards for the global economy. Featured speakers included: Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah); Ambassador Constance Morella, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OECD; Hal Hicks, International Tax Counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Jeffrey Owens, Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
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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.
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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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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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