Minister van Financiën en de General Manager Caribbean van de IDB bespraken toekomstige samenwerking, met focus op onder meer fiscaal beleid (Suriname)

Op 14 november jl. was de General Manager Caribbean van de Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), de heer Anton Edmunds, op bezoek bij Minister Raghoebarsing van Financiën en Planning van Suriname. Centraal in de gesprekken stond de toekomstige samenwerking tussen Suriname en de IDB waarbij werd afgesproken de focus te leggen op projecten met betrekking tot onder andere fiscaal beleid. Zo is bekendgemaakt met een nieuwsbericht op de algemene website van ...

Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022: Tax revenues take a historic hit before showing early signs of recovery

Tax revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) fell by 8.0% on average in nominal terms and by 0.8% as a share of GDP in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report ‘Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022’ released on Wednesday April 27, 2022 during the 56th General Assembly of the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT). However, the region’s economic recovery and ...

First edition of Tax Transparency in Latin America report outlines growing role of tax transparency and exchange of information in helping Latin American governments fight financial crimes and mobilise resources

On 12 July 2021, the report Tax Transparency in Latin America 2021 was published. The report is a key output of the Punta del Este Declaration, a Latin American initiative to tackle tax evasion, corruption and other financial crimes through transparency and exchange of information (EOI) for tax purposes. This has been announced with a press release on the website of the OECD. Furthermore from the press release: The report analyses the ...

New toolkit to strengthen Value Added Taxes on e-commerce in Latin America and the Caribbean

The surge in e-commerce following the COVID-19 outbreak has emphasized the importance of applying Value Added Tax (VAT) effectively to digital trade. A new toolkit released on Wednesday June 23rd offers timely and valuable assistance to tax authorities in the Latin America and the Caribbean region for the effective collection of VAT revenues from e-commerce activities. This has been announced with a press release on the website of the OECD ...

Tax revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean rose modestly before being hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis

Tax revenues rose moderately across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2019 before declining sharply in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic drove down global economic activity, according to new analysis released today in the tax policy publication “Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean” on the occasion of XXXIII edition of the Regional Fiscal Policy Seminar hosted virtually by the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) ...

Tenth edition of the tax policy publication Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean launched

On Thursday 22 April 2021, the tenth edition of the tax policy publication “Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean” has been launched on the occasion of XXXIII edition of the Regional Fiscal Policy Seminar hosted virtually by the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) and partners. The launch event is organised in collaboration with the co-authors of the publication: UN-ECLAC, the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations ...

Latin America and the Caribbean: Tax revenue gains under threat amid deteriorating regional outlook

Tax revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) increased to 23.1% of GDP on average in 2018, according to the new edition of Revenue Statistics in Latin America in the Caribbean published yesterday. However, these gains are now under threat as a result of the region’s deteriorating fiscal outlook, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis. The release was announced in a press release on ...

Latin America and the Caribbean: Public revenues rebound in 2017 after dip in 2016

The average tax-to-GDP ratio in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) rose to 22.8% in 2017, a gain of 0.2 percentage points from 2016, according to Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2019. The report, launched on 25 March 2019 at the XXXI Regional Fiscal Seminar in Santiago, Chile, finds that the rebound was primarily driven by Caribbean countries and in particular Guyana and Barbados, on the back ...

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 ...