Weekly Round-Up

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

Weekly Round-Up

This week's issue included news from:

  • The "First Global Conference of the Platform for Collaboration on Tax"
  • The World Customs Organization's First Global Cross-Border E-Commerce Conference
  • The International Monetary Fund's end-of-mission press release from a staff visit to Georgia
  • The Sixth African Fiscal Forum that was held in Zambia

Weekly Round-Up

This week's round-up featured:

  • An article from Bloomberg BNA about the new pilot program from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that will give businesses a "trusted space to review tax risks with multiple countries at once"
  • The Australian Government's just-released Exposure Draft Legislation (that will implement the OECD's multilateral Convention)
  • Further BEPS guidance released by the OECD
  • A conference held in Washington, DC that examined the impact of U.S. tax changes on banks and tech firms
  • Jordan's newly approved GST law
  • A letter sent the EU Council's High Level Working Party on Tax Issues about digital economy taxation

Weekly Round-Up

This week's issue featured:

  • An article by PwC Deputy Global Tax Policy Leader, Will Morris, on the taxation of the digital economy
  • The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) draft "Guiding Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts"
  • The 47th Regional Meeting of MENA Directors General of Customs held by the World Customs Organization (WCO)
  • The IMF end-of-mission press release following the team's visit to Kyrgyzstan

Weekly Round-Up

This week featured:

  • The latest release of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Investment Trends Monitor
  • An article by ITIC President Daniel in "Capital Finance International"
  • The launch of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) International Compliance Assurance Programme (ICAP)
  • Six new countries joining the OECD BEPS Multilateral Convention
  • The end-of-mission statement by the IMF following a two-week mission to West Africa
  • New country-by-country reporting tax regulations in Nigeria
  • Presentations from the 2017 Africa Tax Dialogue