27-June-2024
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Global Forum Secretariat supports Maldives Inland Revenue Authority with seminar on technical aspects of Common Reporting Standard for financial sector
The Global Forum Secretariat supported the Maldives Inland Revenue Authority (MIRA) in organising a seminar to the financial sector on the technical aspects of the Common Reporting Standard on 26 June 2024. The event brough together 55 compliance officers from the Maldives' banking and insurance sectors.
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24-June-2024
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Asian jurisdictions reap significant rewards from collective efforts to advance tax transparency
Launched today from Yerevan, Armenia, by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (Global Forum), Tax Transparency in Asia 2024 shows how members of its Asia Initiative successfully identified at least EUR 21.8 billion in additional revenue (tax, interest and penalties) since 2009
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18-June-2024
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Tunisian tax officials and Global Forum Secretariat discuss strategies for using automatically-exchanged data
Experts from the Global Forum Secretariat led a seminar in Tunis on 11-13 June 2024 on the use of AEOI data. The event brought together exchange of information officers, tax auditors, officers in charge of recovery of tax claims and IT analysts and engineers from the Tunisian tax administration.
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3-June-2024
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African countries reap highest-ever fiscal benefits from tax transparency
Launched today at the 15th meeting of the Africa Initiative in Lomé, Togo, Tax Transparency in Africa 2024 shows African countries collected more fiscal revenue through tax transparency, exchange of information and related measures in 2023 than over the 13 preceding years combined.
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30-May-2024
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Five years of shared efforts to advance tax transparency bring concrete benefits for Latin American countries
Tax Transparency in Latin America 2024 shows how Latin American countries reported identifying at least EUR 27.8 billion in additional revenue since 2009, through exchange of information on request (EOIR), offshore tax investigations, automatic exchange of financial account information (AEOI) and related voluntary disclosure programmes.
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25-May-2024
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Global Forum and IOTA Secretariats organise practical workshop on Reporting Financial Institutions’ compliance with standard for automatic exchange of information
The Secretariats of the Global Forum and the Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations (IOTA) organised a practical workshop on verifying Reporting Financial Institutions’ compliance with their obligations under the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters (AEOI) on 22-24 May 2024 in Budapest, Hungary.
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25-May-2024
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Global Forum Secretariat launches new toolkit to support voluntary compliance as international co-operation on tax transparency gathers pace
Launched on 24 May 2024 in a virtual event attended by 138 delegates representing nearly 60 jurisdictions, the Voluntary Disclosure Programme Toolkit: A Model Law and Guidance was developed by the Global Forum Secretariat and is available to tax administrations on demand. The toolkit is designed to assist jurisdictions wishing to use the pre-AEOI-exchanges window of opportunity to encourage voluntary compliance.
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17-May-2024
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Global Forum Secretariat trains expert assessors and assessed jurisdictions for upcoming peer reviews on the implementation of the standard of transparency and exchange of information on request
A training seminar for expert assessors and assessed jurisdictions on the standard of transparency and exchange of information on request (EOIR) and the related peer review process was organised by Global Forum Secretariat and warmly hosted by the Guardia di Finanza in its Economic and Financial Police Academy in Ostia, Italy, on 6-10 May 2024.
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8-May-2024
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Barbados hosts the 11th Global Forum Competent Authorities Conference
Barbados hosted the 11th Global Forum Competent Authorities Conference on 6-7 May 2024 in Bridgetown. Jointly organised by the Global Forum Secretariat and the Barbados Revenue Authority, the event brought together 150 participants from 65 jurisdictions.
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26-April-2024
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Global Forum Secretariat helps Tanzania prepare for peer review on transparency and exchange of information on request
In preparation of Tanzania’s second phase peer review on transparency and exchange of information on request (EOIR), the Global Forum Secretariat organised a mock on-site visit from 22 to 26 April 2024. The exercise aimed to prepare local authorities and stakeholders for the actual onsite visit, to be carried out by a Global Forum assessment team as part of the second phase of Tanzania’s EOIR peer review.