tax reform

The Staff Concluding Statement of a recent IMF Staff Visit Curaçao and Sint Maarten has been published on the website of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on November 30, 2021. An IMF mission met virtually with the authorities of Curaçao and Sint Maarten during November 8–24 to discuss recent economic developments, update the macroeconomic outlook, and follow up on the policy priorities raised during 2021 Article IV consultation discussions. The ...

On August 30th 2021, the Minister of Finance of Sint Maarten held a presentation for Members of Parliament (Staten van Sint Maarten) on the status of the tax reforms. The title of the powerpoint-presentation was: “Fiscal Reform for Sint Maarten. Feasible. Socially & Financially Necessary”. Upon his presentation, the Minister also presented a technical report dated April 2021 prepared by the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) of the International Monetary Fund ...

The Minister of Finance of Sint Maarten seeks to alleviate confusion and encourage healthy discussions regarding the ‘suggested’ tax reforms as recently presented to Parliament, according to a news release on the website of the Government of Sint Maarten. The Ministry of Finance has presented the suggestions in Parliament with the hopes of prompting an open discussion on Tax Reform, wherein the community would feel free to ask questions, express ...

On the occasion of the opening of the parliamentary year 2021-2022 the Governor of Sint Maarten last Tuesday, 14 September 2021, His Excellency Drs. Eugene B. Holiday, delivered his address to Parliament. In his address attention has been paid to the plans of the Government in the field of taxation. It concerns the tax reforms plans of the Government: the plans to modernize the tax system and to optimize and ...

Bij brief van 23 april 2021 aan de Minister van Financiën, Economische Zaken en Cultuur van Aruba hebben de Aruba Trade & Industry Association (ATIA), de Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association (AHATA) en de Arubaanse Vereniging van Belastingadvisers (AVVB) een aantal aanbevelingen en suggesties gedaan ingeval in het kader van de aangekondigde belastinghervormingen zou worden overgegaan tot de invoering van een BTW-systeem (belasting over de toegewaarde waarde). Hieronder nemen wij ...

Op 21 april jl. is door de ‘Executive Board’ van het Internationaal Monetair Fonds (IMF) een persbericht uitgegeven inzake de ‘Artikel IV-consultatie-gesprekken’ met Aruba over economische ontwikkelingen en economisch beleid (de ‘Article IV Consultation Discussions with the Kingdom of the Netherlands—Aruba’). De gesprekken werden op 16 april jl. afgerond. Het voornoemde persbericht bevat ook de ‘Executive Board Assessment’. Aan de basis van de gesprekken lag het Staff report van 31 ...

Op 16 november 2020 heeft de regering van Aruba het master plan getiteld “Repositioning our Sails” gepubliceerd. Dit is bekendgemaakt met een nieuwsbericht op de website van de overheid. Daarbij is ook bekendheid gegeven aan de lancering van de website www.repositioningoursails.com. Het master plan is (in het engels) opgesteld door het Committee Economic Recovery and Innovation Aruba en is voluit genaamd: “Repositioning our Sails: Aruba’s Mission Driven Model for Economic ...

The Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Traffic and Telecommunication (TEATT) Ludmila de Weever unveiled her economic recovery plan to the Parliament of Sint Maarten, during a meeting on 21 October 2020. The plan is called “A Path to Economic Recovery & Sustainable Growth.” This has been announced in a press release dated 22 October 2020 as posted on the website of the Government of Sint Maarten as well as with ...

Governments have taken unprecedented fiscal action in response to the COVID-19 crisis, but countries will need to support economic recovery in the face of significantly increasing fiscal challenges, according a new OECD report Tax Policy Reforms 2020: OECD and Selected Partner Economies. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 3 September 2020 on the release of the report. Tax Policy Reforms 2020 describes the latest tax ...

Bij brief d.d. 10 juli 2020 heeft de staatssecretaris van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties de Tweede kamer geïnformeerd over de besluitvorming in de Rijksministerraad van vrijdag 10 juli (gisteren) inzake (financiële) ondersteuning aan Aruba, Curaçao en Sint Maarten. Voor meer informatie over deze brief zie dit artikel in het CFN van vandaag. Vooruitlopend op de besluitvorming in de Rijksministerraad (RMR) werd het College financieel toezicht Curaçao en Sint Maarten (Cft) ...

The pace of tax reforms has slowed across most leading economies and bolder tax reforms will be needed to address future challenges, according to a new OECD report. This was announced in a press release published on the website of the OECD. Tax Policy Reforms 2019 describes the latest tax reforms across all OECD countries, as well as in Argentina, Indonesia and South Africa. The report identifies major tax policy trends and ...

On Wednesday August 21, the Tax Transformation Project was kicked off with a presentation meeting with the entire staff of the Tax Department, Minister of Finance Hon. Perry Geerlings said on Sunday. This was announced in a press release dated 26 August 2019 published on the website of the Government of Sint Maarten. The purpose of the presentation meeting was not only to kickoff and present the Tax Transformation Project, ...

On July 31, Minister of Finance Hon. Perry Geerlings presented the Tax Transformation Plan to the board of directors of the Sint Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association (SHTA). The SHTA is the largest private business representative organization in the country. This has been announced in a news item on the website of the Government of Sint Maarten. During the Minister’s presentation, Geerlings highlighted the need for tax transformation and the ...

Minister Geerlings is presenting his Tax Transformation plan to all key stakeholders on Sint Maarten. This was announced with a press release on the website of the central government of Sint Maarten. From the press release: On May 23 and June 10th, the Minister of Finance Hon. Perry Geerlings presented the Government’s Tax Transformation Plan to the Social Economic Council (SER). During the Minister’s presentation, Geerlings highlighted the urgent need ...

The short-term investment of Naf.37 million in the Capital Account for Transforming the Tax Administration is divided into Naf.32 million for the upgrading of the Tax Department and another Naf.5 million for the necessary improvements in Public Financial Management as noted in the 2015 Kingdom Instruction, Minister of Finance Hon. Perry Geerlings said on Monday, according to a press release dated 26 June 2019 published on the website of the ...

The Minister of Finance of Sint Maarten Hon. Perry Geerlings said on Thursday that the transformation of the country’s Tax Administration will result in further national economic recovery and providing a sustainable secure system for future government finances and necessary investments into the public sector, according to a press release dated 21 June 2019 published on the website of the Government of Sint Maarten. From the press release: “For years ...

De Regering van Aruba heeft haar economisch beleid voor 2019 – 2022 gepresenteerd met de publicatie van het rapport “Economic Policy: a Strong and Resilient Economy 2019-2022”. Dit is bekend gemaakt met een persbericht op de website van de overheid van Aruba. Het economisch beleid zal zich concentreren op de ontwikkeling van een duurzame economische groei met de volgende doelstellingen; het bijdragen aan een hogere kwaliteit van leven voor alle ...

OECD Deputy Secretary-General Ludger Schuknecht and Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, met in Paris with Mr. Menno Snel, State Secretary for Finance in The Netherlands, for wide-ranging discussions on international co-operation in the field of taxation, notably as concerns tackling tax evasion. This was announced in a press release dated 10 January 2019 as published on the website of the OECD. Mr. Saint-Amans expressed ...

Het Internationaal Monetair Fonds (International Monetary Fund, hierna: “IMF”) heeft op 18 december 2018 rapport uitgebracht inzake technische bijstand bij de ontwikkeling van het fiscale stelsel van Aruba. Klik hier om naar de pagina op de website van het IMF te gaan waar het raport is gepubliceerd. Inleiding Op verzoek van de Minister-President van Aruba, Mw. Evelyn Wever-Croes, en de Minister Financiën, Mrs. Xiomara Ruiz-Maduro, heeft een technische bijstandsmissie van ...