Mr Miguel Silva Pinto, the Executive Secretary of IOTA and Mr Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of Centre for Tax Policy and Administration of OECD signed a new Memorandum of Understanding on 25 January 2017. It aims to intensify the cooperation which will focus on a number of areas such as Automatic Exchange of Information, implementation and monitoring of the BEPS Project; holding joint events and undertaking joint research and projects to foster the exchange of experience relating to tax administration. Read more

BEPS is the most important area of the cooperation of the two organisations. IOTA is represented and is organising several events in order to assist IOTA members in the implementation of BEPS:

IOTA, represented by Mr Mostafa Amini, Technical Taxation Expert participated in a Multilateral Instrument special workshop on 27-29 March in Bratislava. Read more

IOTA and OECD co-organised the Second Regional Meeting of the Inclusive Framework on BEPS for Eastern Europe and Central Asian Countries which was hosted by the Ministry of Finance and the Revenue Service of Georgia on 5-7 April in Tbilisi. The meeting offered an opportunity for participants to discuss the status of implementation of the BEPS measures, with a specific focus on the peer-review mechanisms as well as timelines for the implementation of the minimum standards. The meeting was co-chaired by Mr David Chitaishvili, Advisor, Revenue Service of Georgia and Mr Eugenijus Soldatkovas IOTA Technical Taxation Expert. Read more

24th Forum of IOTA Principal Contact Persons

'Transforming Tax Administration and Involving Stakeholders'

This e-book has been published in the theme of IOTA’s first Annual International Conference. Speakers of the conference have been requested to prepare an article based on their presentation.

Please find the link to the e-book

IOTA in international events

A workshop of the IOTA Project ‘Measuring Debt Management Performance’, sponsored by the Belgian Federal Service Finance, will be held on 19 April in Brussels.

'Innovation in the Field of Collection and Recovery of Taxes and Fines' joint IOTA - EU Fiscalis 2020 Programme - OECD FTA workshop will be held on 20-21 April in Brussels.

'Tax Administration Strategies in a Changing Tax Service Landscape' IOTA workshop will be held on 3-5 May in Yerevan

Meeting of Debt Management Steering Group will be held on 23-24 May in Budapest.

'Tax Professional Learning and Development' Forum will be held on 31 May-2 June in Lisbon.

Meeting of the Steering Group of Forum on the Use of Data from Automatic Exchange of Information will be held on 7-8 June in Budapest.

IOTA’s 21st General Assembly will be held on 28-30 June in Kyiv with the main theme 'Disruptive Trends and New Business Models: Challenges and Implications for the 21st century Tax Administration'.