16-May-2023
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Global Forum members’ Competent Authorities meet in Tbilisi for their annual experience-sharing conference
The 10th Global Forum Competent Authorities Conference was kindly hosted by the Georgia Revenue Service on 15 and 16 May 2023 in Tbilisi. The event brought together 160 participants from 77 jurisdictions.
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15-May-2023
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Global Forum counts 168 members after Sierra Leone joins
Sierra Leone has joined the international fight against tax evasion as 168th member – and 37th African member – of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.
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8-May-2023
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Global Forum Secretariat helps Colombia prepare for peer review on transparency and exchange of information on request
From 2 to 5 May 2023, the Global Forum Secretariat carried out a mock on-site visit in Bogota, Colombia, to discuss the progress achieved and remaining challenges, and to prepare stakeholders for the upcoming second-round peer review process.
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27-April-2023
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Asia is levelling the playing field towards more tax transparency, but commitment and progress are still needed to achieve its full potential
Tax Transparency in Asia 2023: Asia Initiative Progress Report acknowledges progress achieved in Asia between 2009 and 2022 in implementing transparency and exchange of information (EOI) for tax purposes.
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18-April-2023
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Mongolia commits to start automatic exchange of financial account information by 2026
Mongolia has committed to implement the international Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters (AEOI) by 2026.
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11-April-2023
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Zimbabwe joins Global Forum as 167th member
Zimbabwe has joined the international fight against tax evasion by becoming the 167th member – and 36th African member – of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.
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7-April-2023
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Global Forum delivers confidentiality and data safeguards workshop for countries participating in pilot project for the wider use of treaty-exchanged information
On 30 March 2023, within the framework of the pilot project for the wider use of treaty-exchanged information for non-tax purposes under the Latin America Initiative – Punta del Este Declaration, 194 officials from tax and non-tax agencies from Argentina, Costa Rica and Paraguay attended the second module on confidentiality and data safeguards delivered by the Secretariat of the Global Forum.
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29-March-2023
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Global Forum and ATAF deliver first regional workshop on cross-border assistance in recovery of tax claims in Africa
The Global Forum Secretariat and the African Tax Administration Forum jointly delivered the first regional workshop on cross border-assistance in the recovery of tax claims, from 27 to 29 March 2023 in Kampala, Uganda, under the framework of the Global Forum’s Africa Initiative.
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28-March-2023
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Global Forum publishes seven new peer review reports on transparency and exchange of information on request
The Global Forum published today seven new peer review reports on transparency and exchange of information on request, for six of its members (Albania, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Nigeria, Saint Lucia and Togo) and one non-member, which had previously been deemed of relevance to its work on EOIR (Nicaragua).
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27-March-2023
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Global Forum and OECD support ECOWAS in improving its legal framework on tax transparency and the fight against base erosion
The Global Forum and the OECD have been assisting the Commissions of the Economic Community of West African States and the West African Economic and Monetary Union since 2020 to put in place an harmonised legal framework to strengthen the fight against tax base erosion, profit shifting, illicit financial flows and tax fraud.