When member-states convene in New York this August for the fifth substantive session on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention), negotiators will navigate increasingly technical and politically contested questions. Among them is how the new Convention will relate to the bilateral tax treaties already in force around the world….
ICTD Research Director Martin Hearson and Associate Postdoctoral Fellow Frederik Heitmüller will be speaking at the Academic Symposium on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, hosted by the International Tax Program at the NYU School of Law….
The taxation of the wealthy represents one of the key challenges for tax professionals and policymakers across the world, including in Africa….
Members of the ICTD team will be in Seville to speak at events, launch a new initiative, and participate in discussions on successful domestic resource mobilisation strategies for financing sustainable development. …
New research from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) provides crucial insights into the challenges and opportunities shaping these historic negotiations….
More than 100 experts and policymakers across Africa gathered in a conference in Kigali, Rwanda last week to discuss the latest evidence on the potential and challenges of digitalising tax administrations….
Researchers from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) participated in crafting such recommendations in a number of policy briefs, situating the issues within the tax context….
Drawing from their work under ICTD’s recently concluded DIGITAX Research Programme, Research Fellow Fabrizio Santoro and Research Officer Celeste Scarpini shared key findings and lessons learned on the matter during an internal seminar hosted by the Institute of Development Studies last week….
The London School of Economic and Political Science (LSE) will be hosting a seminar on ‘Making global tax governance fit for the 21st century’, which will feature ICTD Research Director Martin Hearson who will present a paper of the same title. …
Following last year’s historic vote supporting the establishment of a new UN Framework Tax Convention, a…
Free online event celebrating the work of tax justice expert, Professor Sol Picciotto, in a special issue of the Journal on Financing for Development….
The UN ad hoc committee concluded yesterday the first round of negotiations for the final parameters – or the “terms of reference” – for a UN framework convention on tax, which some have said “could deliver the biggest shake-up in history of the global tax system.”…
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