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New international standards on the automatic exchange of information for tax purposes have so far been satisfactorily implemented by countries worldwide, marking an important milestone in the global fight against tax evasion, according to a new report published on 9 December 2020 by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (the Global Forum). This has been announced by the OECD in a press release dated ...

New international standards on the automatic exchange of information for tax purposes have so far been satisfactorily implemented by countries worldwide, marking an important milestone in the global fight against tax evasion, according to a new report published on 9 December 2020 by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (the Global Forum). This has been announced by the OECD in a press release dated ...

Tax revenues fell across the OECD for the first time in a decade during 2019, but a much larger decrease is expected in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic drives down economic activity and consumption tax revenues, according to new OECD research published on Thursday 3 December 2020. This has been announced in a press release published on the website of the OECD. Furthermore form the press release: The 2020 edition ...

On 23 November 2020, the OECD Secretary-General Tax Report to G20 Leaders was presented during the November 2020 meeting in Saudi Arabia. Click here to go to the report (pdf) on the website of the OECD. This report contains two parts. Part I reports on the activities and achievements in the OECD’s international tax agenda. Part II reports on the activities and achievements of the Global Forum on Transparency and ...

A new diagnostic tool will allow jurisdictions to self-assess their capabilities across a range of legal, strategic and operational areas to support their efforts to tackling tax crime effectively. The Tax Crime Investigation Maturity Model sets out descriptions of capabilities and performance for tax crime investigation, allowing governments to identify where they are situated in relation to good practice across a number of levels of increasing maturity: Emerging, Progressing, Established, Aspirational. This ...

The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (Global Forum) has worked since 2014 to support its members in implementing the Automatic Exchange of Information Standard developed by the OECD (AEOI Standard). Ensuring compliance with the extensive confidentiality and information security management (ISM) requirements has been at the core of this process. This has been announced by the OECD in a press release dated 1 December ...

The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes will hold its annual plenary meeting on 9-11 December 2020. The 2020 Global Forum Plenary Meeting, to be held virtually, will bring together representatives of the Forum’s membership for three days of discussions under the theme: "Transparency for Tax Purposes in the time of COVID-19 – Working together to promote the fairness of tax systems and generate revenue." This ...

Governments should continue providing support to the philanthropic sector while taking steps to safeguard tax systems and ensure that the activities of philanthropic organisations continue to align with the public interest, according to a new report from the OECD. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 26 November 2020 on the release of the report ‘Taxation and Philanthropy’. Furthermore from the press release: Taxation and Philanthropy reviews the ...

On 17 November 2020, the OECD Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) has published a report on Advancing Gender Balance in the Workforce: A Collective Responsibility. This report, developed by the FTA's Gender Balance Network, sets out a range of policies and practices undertaken by tax administrations and their national governments to advance gender balance in the workforce. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 17 November 2020. Furthermore ...

As part of the ongoing work of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS (Inclusive Framework), the OECD secretariat is seeking public comments on the 2020 review of BEPS Action 14. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 18 November 2020. Furthermore from the press release: Background In October 2015 the final report on Action 14 Making Dispute Resolution Mechanisms More Effective was published, containing a minimum standard (the ...

As part of the BEPS Action 14 minimum standard and the wider G20/OECD tax certainty agenda to improve the effectiveness and timeliness of tax-related dispute resolution mechanisms, the OECD released on 18 November 2020 the latest mutual agreement procedure (MAP) statistics covering 105 jurisdictions and almost all MAP cases worldwide. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 18 November 2020. Furthermore from the press release: The 2019 ...

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed major weaknesses in our economies that can only be fixed through greater global co-operation and strong, targeted policy action, according to a new OECD report “New Horizons” presented to the Leaders of the G20 countries at their virtual Summit this weekend. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 22 November 2020. Furthermore from the press release: New Horizons, a report requested ...

Jurisdictions continue making progress in countering harmful tax practices, as contemplated in the BEPS Action 5 Minimum Standard, with the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS now having approved the outcomes of the 2020 reviews by the OECD Forum on Harmful Tax Practices (FHTP). This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 23 November 2020, which press release contains a hyperlink to a document “Harmful Tax Practices – Peer Review ...

The OECD Forum on Harmful Tax Practices (FHTP) has published its BEPS Action 5 Update (as of November 2020) with the results of the 2020 peer reviews as established in the October 2020 meeting and has expressed that Aruba tax regimes now in line with the BEPS Action 5 Minimum Standard. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 23 November 2020, which press release contains a hyperlink ...

The OECD Forum on Harmful Tax Practices (FHTP) has published its BEPS Action 5 Update (as of November 2020) with the results of the 2020 peer reviews as established in the October 2020 meeting and has expressed that Aruba tax regimes now in line with the BEPS Action 5 Minimum Standard. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 23 November 2020, which press release contains a hyperlink ...

Panama has deposited its instrument of ratification for the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (Multilateral Convention or MLI), which now covers almost 1700 bilateral tax treaties, “thus underlining its strong commitment to prevent the abuse of tax treaties and base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) by multinational enterprises”. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 5 ...

Op 29 oktober 2020 is Ministeriële regeling met algemene werking van de 9de oktober 2020 tot wijziging van de Ministeriële regeling omzetbelasting uitgegeven. Deze ministeriële regeling is geplaatst in het Publicatieblad van Curaçao, jaargang 2020, no. 113 (P.B. 2020, no. 113). Dit publicatieblad is evenwel vooralsnog niet gepubliceerd op de officiële overheidswebsite (www.gobiernu.cw) waar de publicatiebladen worden gepubliceerd [status 10 november 2020]. In deze ministeriële regeling tot wijziging van de ...

Yesterday, October 29th 2020, the OECD released the new methodology for the peer review of BEPS Action 13 Country-by-Country Reporting. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 29 October 2020 on the release of the report. Furthermore from the press release: The Action 13 standard on Country-by-Country Reporting is one of the four BEPS minimum standards. Each of the four BEPS minimum standards is subject to ...

On 12 October 2020, the OECD has published an update on the continuing negotiations to reach a multilateral, consensus-based solution to the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy on Monday 12 October 2020: “OECD Secretary-General Tax Report to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors – October 2020”. Click here to go to the report on the website of the OECD. The publication of the report was ...

The international community has made substantial progress towards reaching a consensus-based long-term solution to the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy, and agreed to keep working towards an agreement by mid-2021, according to a Statement (link to the document on the website of the OECD) released on Monday October 12, 2020. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 12 October 2020 on the release ...

As part of the ongoing work to develop a solution to the tax challenges of the digitalisation of the economy, the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS is seeking public comments on the Reports on the Pillar One and Pillar Two Blueprints. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 12 October 2020. Furthermore from the press release: Background The top priority of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on ...

The international community continues to make progress towards strengthening developing countries' ability to effectively tax multinational enterprises, despite the adverse impact of the COVID-19 crisis on domestic resource mobilisation efforts. Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), a joint OECD/UNDP initiative launched in July 2015 to strengthen developing countries' auditing capacity and multinationals' compliance worldwide, has gained increased relevance in the COVID-19 era as a practical tool to help developing countries collect all ...

The OECD has released the outcomes of the third phase of peer reviews of the BEPS Action 13 Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting initiative, demonstrating strong progress in continuing efforts to improve the taxation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) worldwide, according to a press release dated 24 September 2020 published on the website of the OECD on the occasion of the report “Country-by-Country Reporting – Compilation of Peer Review Reports (Phase 3): Inclusive Framework ...

The OECD has released the outcomes of the third phase of peer reviews of the BEPS Action 13 Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting initiative, demonstrating strong progress in continuing efforts to improve the taxation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) worldwide, according to a press release dated 24 September 2020 published on the website of the OECD on the occasion of the report “Country-by-Country Reporting – Compilation of Peer Review Reports (Phase 3): Inclusive Framework on ...

The OECD has released the outcomes of the third phase of peer reviews of the BEPS Action 13 Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting initiative, demonstrating strong progress in continuing efforts to improve the taxation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) worldwide, according to a press release dated 24 September 2020 published on the website of the OECD. CbC reporting, one of the four minimum standards of the BEPS Project, requires tax administrations to collect and ...

Representatives from 40 countries and 5 international and regional organisations, along with delegations from the OECD's Multilateral Tax Centres, met to discuss the OECD's Global Relations Programme (GRP) in taxation, at the 17th meeting of the Advisory Group for Co-operation with Partner Economies. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 15 September 2020 on the release of the report. The meeting took stock of a rapidly changing international tax landscape and ...

Bij brief d.d. 2 september 2020 aan de Minister van Financiën van Sint Maarten heeft het College financieel toezicht Curaçao en Sint Maarten (Cft) zijn reactie gegeven op de tweede uitvoeringsrapportage 2020 van Sint Maarten. De reactie bevat ook enkele belastinggerelateerde passages. Hieronder nemen wij een aantal passages op. Oordeel De UR toont een tekort van ANG 87,1 miljoen. Dit tekort valt lager uit dan was begroot voor deze periode ...

Op 25 augustus 2020 is de Ministeriële regeling met algemene werking, van de 13de augustus 2020 ter uitvoering van artikel 1A, elfde lid, van de Landsverordening op de winstbelasting 1940 (Ministeriële regeling aanwijzing vergelijkbare buitenlandse winstbelastingregimes) uitgegeven en geplaatst in het Publicatieblad van Curaçao, jaargang 2020, no. 88 (P.B. 2020 no. 88). In artikel 1A, elfde lid, van de Landsverordening op de winstbelasting 1940 is een delegatiebepaling opgenomen op basis ...

Thursday 30 July 2020, the Forum on Tax Administration published a report: Tax Administration Responses to COVID-19: Assisting Wider Government. This has been announced with a press release published on the website of the OECD. From the press release: Tax administrations around the globe are taking on new responsibilities to support wider government actions to help address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and support their taxpayers and citizens. Tax ...

The COVID-19 crisis has brought renewed attention to the role and importance of multilateral co-operation in combating tax evasion and helping fiscal consolidation. In line with its mandate to deliver technical assistance and support capacity building, the Secretariat of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (the Global Forum) has now produced a Toolkit for Becoming a Party to the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in ...