Tax Morale and Integrity in Developing Countries
On 19 March 2019, the event: “Tax Morale and Integrity in Developing Countries” was held in the OECD Conference Centre Auditorium (with live streaming). This was announced in March 2019 with a press release published on the website of the OECD. From the press release: Tax morale measures taxpayer perceptions and attitudes towards paying and evading taxes. What creates tax morale? In other words, what makes you willing to pay ...
New Beneficial Ownership Toolkit will help tax administrations tackle tax evasion more effectively
The first ever beneficial ownership toolkit was released today in the context of the OECD’s Global Integrity and Anti-Corruption Forum. The toolkit, prepared by the Secretariat of the OECD’s Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank, is intended to help governments implement the Global Forum’s standards on ensuring that law enforcement officials have access to reliable information on who the ultimate beneficial owners are behind ...
IMF Country Report on Curaçao and Sint Maarten: 2018 Article IV Consultation
On 25 January 2019 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published its Country Report “Kingdom of the Netherlands—Curaçao and Sint Maarten: 2018 Article IV Consultation Discussions”. Hereunder we will take up the integral texts (however without footnotes!) of the Press Release, the Executive Board Assessment and the Staff Report for the 2018 Article IV Consultation Discussions in the report. Furthermore, for both Curaçao and Sint Maarten we have filtered phrases from ...
OECD clamps down on CRS avoidance through residence and citizenship by investment schemes
Residence and citizenship by investment (CBI/RBI) schemes, often referred to as golden passports or visas, can create the potential for misuse as tools to hide assets held abroad from reporting under the OECD/G20 Common Reporting Standard (CRS), the OECD expresses in the press coverage dated 16 October 2018 following the publication of the results of its analysis of over 100 CBI/RBI schemes offered by CRS-committed jurisdictions. From the press coverage: In particular, Identity ...