The Technical Working Group (TWG) for the International Survey on Revenue Administration (ISORA) met for its annual meeting in Paris on 16-18 October, hosted by the OECD. The annual meeting was followed by a one-day brainstorming workshop with the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI), where the ISORA TWG and the representatives for ATI discussed possible common tax administration indicators.
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IOTA’s Executive Secretary, Miguel Silva Pinto delivered a speech in the conference „National Tax Consultation 2018”, organised by the NTCA – The National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary, which was held on 4 October in Budapest.
Madrid has hosted the Conference of the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA) on 3-5 October.
The 12th meeting of IOTA Debt Management Area Group took place on 2-4 October 2018 in Athens, Greece. 38 participants discussed Automation of Tax Debt Management Processes. Area Group members also overviewed the development of the ongoing IOTA Project on “Knowledge database of international (crossborder) insolvency proceedings”.
55 participants from 31 IOTA member countries came to Budapest to discuss a very special and innovative subject: the use of Machine learning methods in tax administrations in IOTA “special interest workshop” on 2-4 October.
IOTA’s Executive Secretary addressed the International Conference of the State Tax Inspectorate (STI) of Lithuania “Pathway of the Lithuanian Tax Administration: History, Facts and Values”, which was held on the 1st October 2018 and celebrated the Tax Man’s Day in Lithuania.
GCET is a global forum for exchanges on the principles and practices of environmental taxation and other market-based instruments relevant for greening of the economy and a more sustainable development.
The 2018 IOTA Forum on Combating VAT Fraud took place in Rome on the 26-28 September 2018, hosted by the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia Entrate).
Over 70 participants coming from 34 IOTA member countries, three international organisations (European Commission, Europol and the OECD) and the Italian Financial Guard (Guardia di Finanza) gathered to exchange views and experiences on VAT fraud trends, critical sectors and the opportunities for cooperation in combatting VAT fraud.
IOTA’s Executive Secretary, Miguel Silva Pinto addressed the G28 Summit, the Annual meeting of the Director Generals of the Tax Administrations of EU Member States which took place in Vienna on 17-18 September 2018, hosted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance.