IOTA NEWSLETTER

Dear Partner,

It is our pleasure to share with you news about IOTA activities carried out this year (January-April). This is the first of our tri-annual newsletter.

IOTA celebrates 20 years anniversary in 2016

IOTA was established in 1996 by 7 members and now in 2016 our organization has 46 member tax administrations. On this occasion we have started to use the anniversary logo and we have also refreshed our design and created a new IOTA brand book. The main event of the commemoration will be the 20th anniversary going to be held in July in Bucharest, Romania.

20th General Assembly of IOTA: Data-driven Tax Administration

IOTA project started on Applying Data and Analytics in Tax Administrations

IOTA organised 9 workshops in 2016 for its members

‘VAT Avoidance - Special Issues’

38 tax officials from 22 IOTA member countries discussed their experiences, example schemes and their approach to reducing the VAT loss due to avoidance schemes. Read more

‘Tax Administration’s Marketing Activities to Inform Taxpayers and Improve Perceptions of Tax System’

38 tax officials from 24 IOTA member countries discussed their experiences, marketing strategies and shared best practices about public campaigns they have made in order to raise and increase awareness of the taxpayers. Read more

‘The Changing Landscape of Tax Service Providers: Instruments to Strengthen Tax Compliance’ (joint OECD-IOTA workshop)

23 tax officials from 13 IOTA member countries explored the business developments in the domain of SME’s and tax service providers and shared experiences in developing strategies to make cooperation with tax service providers a part of broader SME compliance approach. Read more

‘Non-filers and Stop-filers: Identifying Effective Solutions to Increase (Voluntary) Tax Compliance’ (joint EU-IOTA workshop)

25 tax officials from 16 IOTA member countries examined ways that IOTA member tax administrations can identify, handle and engage with non-filers and stop-filers, and find effective solutions to increase tax compliance. Read more

'Transfer Pricing Issues - Use of Database Searches for Comparables’

60 tax officials discussed how to apply a database search for a comparability analysis, and exchanged information on effective use of data sources for comparables as well as alternative approaches in the absence of such data. Read more

‘Best Practices for Improving Processes and Procedures in Tax Administrations’

36 tax officials from 21 IOTA member countries discussed how to implement improvements to internal business processes and how to modernize tax administrations and make them more efficient. Read more

Meeting of the IOTA Area Group on Debt Management

28 Area Group members from 25 IOTA member countries and the representatives of Taxation and Customs Union Directorate General of the EU exchanged experiences on structure, competence and position of effective debt management function within tax administration. Read more

Training on International Survey on Revenue Administration (ISORA)

36 tax officials from … IOTA member countries had the opportunity to gain hands on experience with the ISORA questionnaire and to get familiar with the RA-FIT data reporting system. The ISORA collects revenue administration data from tax and customs administrations from around the world. IOTA offered this training to its member to get acquainted with it before survey launch. Read more

‘Combating VAT Fraud’ Forum

38 participants from 22 IOTA member countries, EU and the Europol discussed different aspects of the prevention of VAT fraud such as the use of domestic supplier and customer listings / transaction reporting to prevent and detect VAT fraud, cooperation with other tax administrations within and outside EU, with law enforcement and other agencies to fight organised VAT fraud. Read more

IOTA issued new publications

IOTA’s international cooperation

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