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News & Events
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19-Feb-2008
Four out of ten full-time employed face a marginal tax wedge of more than 70% resulting from labour contributions plus income and consumption taxes combined. Tax reform could mitigate an ageing-related decline in hours worked, and contribute to fiscal sustainability, this report argues. But it requires that cuts focus on the worst distortions and are appropriately financed.
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19-Feb-2008
The Danish pension system is well-developed and almost unique in the OECD. This report suggests that there may be scope to increase choice and flexibility in the pension system. However, the key policy challenge is to reform capital taxation outside pension savings.
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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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30-Jan-2008
The OECD and the Council of Europe have jointly issued a new publication of the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of its opening for signature on 25 January 1988.
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25-Jan-2008
The OECD is issuing an invitation to comment on a series of issues notes that was drafted by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs' Working Party No. 6, building on experience acquired by countries in applying transactional profit methods since the adoption of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines in 1995 and on comments received from the business community. Comments may be submitted by 30 April 2008 to Jeffrey Owens, Director, CTPA (jeffrey.owens@oecd.org).
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25-Jan-2008
More than 250 participants met in Mumbai, India, on 23-25 January 2008 to discuss a broad range of international tax issues at the Conference “At the Crossroads of Tax Co-operation: IFA (India) – OECD” that was jointly organized by the Indian Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to mark the accession of India as observer to the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs.
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23-Jan-2008
On 30 October 2007, the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs published a discussion draft on Tax Treaty issues related to REITs. The OECD has now published the comments received on that draft.
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22-Jan-2008
This information note prepared by the Forum on Tax Administration records the results of a study of the key strategies and approaches being adopted by ministries of finance and revenue bodies to reduce the administrative burden resulting from tax regulations.
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22-Jan-2008
This information note prepared by the Forum on Tax Administration provides further information on the systems of pre-filling personal tax returns operating successfully in Denmark and Sweden. (The Forum’s initial note on this topic was published in March 2006.)
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17-Jan-2008
On 8 December 2006, the OECD published a discussion draft on the proposed changes to the Commentaries on the Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital concerning the tax treaty treatment of services. The OECD has now published the comments received on that draft.
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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
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A joint initiative by the OECD, IMF and World Bank to facilitate discussion on tax matters
International Tax Dialogue
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