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Israel joins international efforts to boost transparency and end tax evasion

Israel signed today the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, making it the 91st jurisdiction to join the world’s leading instrument for boosting transparency and combating offshore tax evasion.

New regional network meeting on BEPS held in Costa Rica

On 17-18 November 2015, a new regional meeting as well as a governmental workshop on BEPS was held for the Latin America and the Caribbean region to discuss the outcomes of the BEPS Project, and the ways that the countries can explore to be involved on an equal footing in the implementation and the monitoring phase of the measures adopted.

Tax treaties: OECD releases latest MAP statistics

As part of the OECD’s work to improve the timeliness of processing and completing mutual agreement procedure (MAP) cases under tax treaties and to enhance the transparency of the MAP process, the OECD makes available annual statistics on the MAP caseloads of all its member countries and of non-OECD economies that agree to provide such statistics.

Harmonising African Revenue Statistics

African tax administration representatives gathered under the auspices of the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) on 25-26 November 2014 to set the framework for harmonising their revenue statistics.

Do lower taxes encourage investment?

Conventional wisdom holds that countries with lower taxes attract higher levels of foreign direct investment (FDI). At first glance, this intuitive assumption seems to be supported by the evidence but is this true?. Pierre Poret, Deputy Director of the OECD Financial and Enterprise Affairs Directorate takes a closer look.

Institutions of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations - Challenges Ahead

G20 leaders endorse OECD measures to crack down on tax loopholes, reaffirm its role in ensuring strong, sustainable and inclusive growth

The leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies today endorsed overhauled global standards proposed by the OECD to crack down on tax evasion and reaffirmed the organisation’s central role in helping governments ensure strong, sustainable and inclusive growth.

“Fair play” - the rule of the game in international taxation: Remarks at Antalya G20 Summit session on enhancing resilience

Thanks to your leadership “fair play” will become the name of the game in international tax policies. With the set of agreed measures, the location of the profits of multinationals and where they pay their taxes will be the same as the location of the activities generating these profits, with the aim of reversing revenue losses in the public coffers of up to a quarter trillion US dollars annually.

OECD Secretary-General's tax report to G20 Leaders (November 2015)

This report consists of two parts. Part I is a report by the OECD Secretary-General regarding (A) the OECD/G20 BEPS Project; (B) tax transparency with the single global common standard on Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI); and (C) Tax and Development. Part II is a Progress Report to the G20 as adopted by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes at its meeting on 28-30 October 2015.

Harmonising revenue statistics among Asian countries

Asian representatives from Ministries of Finance and Tax administrations gathered in Seoul, Korea on 14-15 October 2015 to discuss the framework for harmonising their revenue statistics.