This week:

• ITIC held a "Capacity Building Workshop on Taxation in the Extractive Industry" in Tanzania
• The Platform for Collaboration on Tax released their "Conference Statement"
• The European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs approved a new EU corporate tax plan
• The UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax published the report from their fifteenth session
• South Africa announced its proposal to increase the VAT rate
• Serbia became the 112th member to sign the Inclusive Framework on BEPS
• The IMF concluded a mission to Turkey and released a Staff Concluding Statement