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Media Advisory - Release of OECD Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019

 

Monday 25 March 2019 at 17:00 (Santiago time)

Venue: ECLAC Headquarters - Santiago, Chile

 

The eighth edition of the tax policy publication Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean will be launched on Monday, 25 March 2019, during the 31st Regional Seminar on Fiscal Policy organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The report provides an overview of the main taxation trends from 1990 to 2017 in 25 Latin American and Caribbean economies.

 

This edition includes two special features: the first looks at non-renewable natural resource revenues and the second analyses recurrent taxes on immovable property in Latin America.

 

The report will be presented by Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, Sebastian Nieto Parra, Head of Latin America and the Caribbean Unit (ad interim) of the OECD Development Centre and Alexander Pick, Fiscal Economist at the OECD Development Centre.

 

Follow the launch on Twitter: #RevStatsLatam

 

Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean is a joint publication by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations (CIAT) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Its approach is based on the OECD Revenue Statistics database methodology, which provides internationally comparable data on tax levels and tax structures.

 

Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019 will be under embargo until Monday, 25 March, 17:00 (Santiago time). Advance copies will be available the day before release, in both English and Spanish.

 

Requests for advance copies or interviews should be directed to Bochra Kriout (tel: +33 1 45 24 82 96) or Hazel.Healy@oecd.org (Tel.: +33 1 45 24 82 40).

 

In asking to receive copies under embargo, journalists undertake to respect the OECD's embargo procedures.

 

Please note: The OECD's embargo rules prohibit any broadcast, news wire service or Internet transmission of text or information about this report before the stated release time. They also prohibit any communication of the contents of the report or any comment on its forecasts or conclusions to any outside party whatsoever before the stated release time. News organisations receiving OECD material under embargo have been informed that if they breach the OECD's embargo rules they will automatically be excluded in the future from receiving embargoed information.

 

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