Mr. Hans D'Hondt, President of IOTA kindly invites you to the 23rd General Assembly on 2-4 July, 2019 held in Brussels, Belgium.
This year we will discuss how tax administrations are changing human resources policies in shaping a tax administration of the future. Come and join us for redefining the profile of the tax official, discuss new behaviour, the visionary workforce, mobility and staff management and many more issues.
See you there!
Melbourne, Australia hosted the fifth meeting of the OECD Global Forum on VAT 20-22 March, 2019. The Forum welcomed around 300 representatives from over 100 countries and jurisdictions across the globe together with officials from international organisations.
Heads and representatives of 46 Tax Administrations gathered in Santiago, Chile on 26-28 March, 2019 for the 12th Plenary meeting of OECD Forum on Tax Administration (FTA). The meeting brought together over 140 delegates, including IOTA representative Eugenijus Soldatkovas, Manager of IOTA Work Programme.
The 26th Forum of IOTA Principal Contact Persons (PCPs) was held in Zurich on the 12 and 13 March 2019, hosted by the Swiss Federal Tax Administration. The event was jointly designed and delivered by a group of PCPs and members of the IOTA Secretariat, covering the main areas of activity of the organization.
Keep visiting the IOTA Papers section of our website, you will find current articles written by tax officials from IOTA member countries in hot topics of taxation. This year we have already got two valuable papers from Belgium and from Hungary. You can read about how Belgium uses behavioural insights to encourage taxpayers to pay faster and about the experience of Hungary in introducing the Electronic Public Road Trade Control System .
You will find these and all other papers here:
Delegation of Armenian Tax Administration led by Mr. Davit Ananyan, Chairman of the State Revenue Committee, made a working visit to Italy, on February 27-28. Mr. Ananyan met with Mr. Antonino Maggiore, Director General of the Italian Revenue Agency, in Rome.
The first meeting of IOTA Technical Assistance Advisory Group (TAAG) took place on 28th February – 1st of March in IOTA Secretariat office in Budapest. Representatives of Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Sweden and UK discussed introduction of a new service for members – IOTA technical assistance service. The group prepared draft of the framework which will regulate this service. TAAG also drafted the process of IOTA technical assistance which will be the basis of functionality of the future online tool to be developed for this service.
Roman Bichevoy, IOTA’s International Taxation Expert, represented the organisation in the Capacity building week in OECD on 19-21 February in Paris, France. This was a series of meetings organised by Global Relations Programme (GRP) and Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) of OECD.
The Ministry of Taxes of the Republic of Azerbaijan organized its Annual Forum in Baku on the 18 February 2019. This year’s Forum was dedicated to discuss taxes, transparency and development.
An IOTA Case Study Workshop was held on 12-14 February in Budapest on a very special subject: “Prevention of VAT fraud in the automobile sector". Stronger coordination amongst tax administrations to stop at an earlier stage VAT fraud in the automobile sector is needed in most of the EU Member States as well as in non EU Member States.