The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has announced that during the 17th annual plenary meetings of the Forum on Tax Administration, tax administrations reached a consensus on a series of practical initiatives.
These initiatives aim to advance digital transformation, improve tax certainty, and strengthen global partnerships for building tax capacity.
The OECD’s Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) held its 17th annual Plenary meeting in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 15 November, bringing together tax commissioners and delegates from 53 jurisdictions, including representatives from international organisations, regional tax administration bodies, business and academia.
Commissioners focused on opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of tax administration globally by:
- Developing pilot implementation projects to support automated secure sharing of information between tax administrations and third parties, as well as deepening knowledge sharing on both the trusted use of Artificial Intelligence and the global evidence base to support investments in digital transformation.
- Assisting the implementation of the global minimum tax and enhancing the tax certainty framework to help achieve early tax certainty and minimise disputes.
- Expanding collective efforts on tax capacity building, in co-operation with regional tax organisations, to support the transformation of tax administration globally, including through peer-to-peer engagement on leadership and the promotion of gender balance and diversity.
Commissioner Bob Hamilton, Chair of the FTA, said “The theme of the Athens Plenary was the transformation of tax administration. We discussed how the new technology-enabled tools and the digitalisation of the economy offer us unparalleled opportunities to reduce global tax gaps and compliance burdens and to bring about earlier tax certainty. This is a long-term transformational ambition that requires close collaboration between tax administrations, both developed and developing, business and other stakeholders. It is clear that the FTA is well set to take this work to the next stage.”
Manal Corwin, Director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, said “Digital transformation, as set out in the FTA’s Tax Administration 3.0 vision, has huge potential both for taxation and for the wider economy. As acknowledged by FTA Commissioners, it is essential that we find ways that all administrations globally can both benefit from, and participate in this work.”
Further information on FTA reports, including the latest edition of the Tax Administration Series, the MAP and APA Statistics and the FTA’s future work programme, is available in the Statement of Outcomes.
