ITIC Hosts Dinner with UNCTAD Secretary General

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On 19 April, during the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, ITIC hosted a dinner in Washington, DC with Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Other distinguished guests from the African Union, COMESA and African embassies joined IMF and World Bank officials and several ITIC sponsor companies for a discussion of the relationship between investment and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Weekly Round-Up

This week, we featured stories on:

  • UNCTAD's "E-Commerce Week"
  • The new UNCTAD Policy Brief on "Digitalization and Trade"
  • An update on GST in India by ITIC Advisor Sumit Majumder
  • PwC's latest Tax Insights Tax Policy Bulletin
  • The Indian Government releasing a Draft Notification for Comments under BEPS Action 5
  • New regulations on tax holidays in Indonesia

Weekly Round-Up

This week's ITICnet.org Round-Up featured stories on:

  • ITIC's Tax Consultations held in Kazakhstan
  • The IMF's release of the analytical chapter on Digital Government
  • 14 Transfer Pricing Country Profiles released by the OECD
  • A WCO Workshop on Digital Customs and E-Commerce held in Zimbabwe
  • The new Corporate Tax Reform Bill proposed in The Philippines
  • The new IMF Working Paper: Tax Incentives in Cambodia

Weekly Round-Up

In this week's round-up, we featured new stories on:

  • ITIC's redesigned website
  • The IMF's new paper on "Measuring the Digital Economy"
  • The OECD's second edition Common Reporting Standard Implementation Handbook
  • Will Morris (PwC Deputy Global Tax Policy Leader)'s article on the impact of digital tax proposals on business
  • IMF Country Report No. 18/93 on Iran
  • The World Bank's Policy Research Working Paper on taxation and the shadow economy
  • The IMF's end-of-mission press release for the staff visit to Thailand

Weekly Round-Up

This week's round-up featured:

  • More photos from ITIC's inaugural missions to Russia and Kazakhstan from Dan Witt's trip in March 1993
  • The OECD's announcement that the BEP Convention will enter into force on 1 July 2018
  • The IMF's Working Paper on "The Real Effects of Transfer Pricing Regulations"
  • UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi talk about tariffs and trade on Bloomberg TV
  • The IMF's country report for Lao PDR.