The workshop will address and analyse new business schemes along with approaches of tax administrations for identification of digital economy operators, control activities and alternative guidance measures to facilitate tax compliance.

The next meeting of the Executive Council of IOTA is organized on  24-25 January 2018 in Paris, France.

The Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations is organising a meeting of the Steering Group within the context of the Forum on combating VAT Fraud.

Steering Group preparations for the 2018 Tax Professional Learning and Development Forum Meeting.

The Steering Group meeting will focus on: i) finalisation of the IOTA Project on Measuring Performance of Tax Debt Management", ii) implementation of the IOTA Project Knowledge database of international (cross-border) insolvency proceedings, iii) drafting of proposal for the IOTA Project on Application of nudging techniques in cross-border/mutual assistance environment, iv) Preparations for 12th meeting of IOTA Debt Management Area Group and v)  drafting mandate for the future work of the IOTA Debt Management Area Group (Mandate for 2019-2020)

At this meeting, the Steering Group will discuss its activities in 2018 under the Forum Mandate, establish Forum subgroups on specific priority topics and discuss the composition of the subgroups and the organisation of the work of the subgroups. The Steering Group will also prepare the draft agenda and pre-event materials for the 2nd meeting of the Forum on BEPS to be held on 12-14 June 2018

IOTA Secretariat established a Preparatory Group for the 25^th Forum of Principal Contact Persons (PCP) in order to ensure that the interests of IOTA PCPs are properly represented in developing the Forum's agenda, especially as regards the issues associated with the implementation of the new IOTA Strategy 2018-2022 and the role of PCPs in strengthening the engagement of the membership in future IOTA activities.

IOTA Advisory Board on Communications contributes to the implementation of IOTA’s Communication Strategy and to ensuring alignment with the organisation’s overall objectives. 

The workshop will facilitate sharing of knowledge and experience on how tax administrations use the measurement systems to set priorities and what is the impact of using indicators and performance measures for the decision-making process.

A platform for experts from IOTA member tax administrations to work collaboratively towards the development of strategies, processes, solutions for the effective use of data from the Automatic Exchange of Information.