OECD Latest Initiatives to Fight Tax and Financial Crime

OECD Asia-Pacific Academy for Tax and Financial Crime Investigation Last week, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and Japan’s Minister of Finance Taro Aso presided over a… Read More ›

New OECD Taxation Papers on Transport Taxes and the Use of Revenues from Carbon Pricing

The OECD Taxation Working Papers are working papers from the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration of the OECD, covering the full range of the… Read More ›

New TTPI Working Paper on Cash Flow Corporation Taxation

TTPI Working Paper 6/2019 Improving cash flow corporate taxation (CFCT) and the Z-tax (ZT) approach Author: David Ingles, Senior Research Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy… Read More ›

Implementation of Tax Transparency Initiative Delivering Concrete and Impressive Results, Says OECD

International efforts to improve transparency via automatic exchange of information on financial accounts are improving tax compliance and delivering concrete results for governments worldwide, according… Read More ›

J5 Targets Global Tax Evasion Enablers Including Bank

Leaders from five national tax agencies met in Washington, DC, last week to mark the one-year anniversary of the formation of the J5 and announced… Read More ›

New Book on Public Policy Successes in Australia and New Zealand

Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand Editors: Joannah Luetjens, Michael Mintrom and Paul `t Hart Publisher: ANU Press Introduction: In Australia and… Read More ›

New Zealand Seeks Feedback on Taxing the Digital Services Industry

The New Zealand Government has launched a consultation seeking public feedback on proposals to more effectively tax the digital economy in New Zealand, which include… Read More ›

New Release: Measuring Poverty around the World

Measuring Poverty around the World Author: Anthony B. Atkinson Publisher: Princeton University Press In his final, and now posthumous, book, Anthony Atkinson conducts a wide-ranging… Read More ›

Tax Justice Network Releases 2019 Corporate Tax Haven Index

On May 28th the Tax Justice Network (TJN) published its biannual Corporate Tax Haven Index (CTHI), a follow on of its Financial Secrecy Index (FSI),… Read More ›

OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework Agrees on Road Map for Resolving Tax Challenges of the Digital Economy

The international community has agreed on a road map for resolving the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy, and committed to continue… Read More ›