The Global Forum delivers a seminar in Yangzhou City to assist countries to fight tax evasion

 

10/07/2018 - The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes delivered a five-day seminar on “Exchange of Information as a Tool to Combat Offshore Tax Evasion” in Yangzhou City, China on 2-6 July 2018. The seminar was hosted by the OECD-SAT Multilateral Tax Centre in China as part of the OECD’s Global Relations Programme in Taxation. 96 officials from eight jurisdictions attended this seminar.

 

Yangzhou City, China
2 July 2018

 

This seminar focused on the connection between the domestic tax investigations, the domestic information gathering framework and the international infrastructure for exchange of information (“EOI”). Participants are being introduced to key concepts of transparency and exchange of information (EOI) as assimilated into the international standards: EOI on request, automatic EOI, confidentiality of data and beneficial ownership. Through a series of hands-on workshop exercises, participants were familiarised with the use of EOI networks and structures to improve the quality of tax audits and to combat transnational tax evasion.

Tax auditors were encouraged to make effective use of these EOI tools by increasing the number and quality of outgoing requests to their treaty partners. The seminar has strengthened awareness among participants that protection of domestic revenue is closely linked with the effective use of this EOI network.

 

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