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The OECD and Global Forum support ECOWAS in strengthening the fight against BEPS and improving tax transparency in West Africa

As part of the European Union's Fiscal Transition Support Programme in West Africa, the OECD and the Global Forum have collaborated with the Economic Community of West African States and the West African Economic and Monetary Union commissions in the development of three community legal tax instruments.

OECD Tax Talks

With a number of recent developments in the OECD’s international tax agenda, we invite you to join a live webinar with experts from the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration for an update on our work.

International Standards for Automatic Exchange of Information in Tax Matters - Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework and 2023 update to the Common Reporting Standard

Zimbabwe joins Global Forum as 167th member

Zimbabwe has joined the international fight against tax evasion by becoming the 167th member – and 36th African member – of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.

Viet Nam joins Multilateral Convention to tackle tax evasion and avoidance

Today, at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, Mr. Cao Anh Tuan, Deputy Finance Minister of Viet Nam, signed the world’s widest-reaching international treaty for multilateral tax co-operation, the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters (or the Convention), bringing the total number of jurisdictions that participate in the Convention to 147.

Angola joins Global Forum as 166th member

Angola has joined the international fight against tax evasion by becoming the 166th member – and 35th African member – of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (Global Forum).

28 jurisdictions sign international tax agreements to exchange information with respect to income earned on digital platforms and offshore financial assets

On 9 November 2022, 28 countries and jurisdictions took new steps to strengthen and expand their co-operation in tax matters.

Global Forum reports significant progress on global transparency and exchange of tax information, while noting further work is needed

Significant global progress on transparency and exchange of tax information is reported by the Global Forum.

OECD presents new transparency framework for crypto-assets to G20

The OECD delivered today a new global tax transparency framework to provide for the reporting and exchange of information with respect to crypto-assets.

African countries making good strides on tax transparency

Launched today during the 11th meeting of the Africa Initiative, Tax Transparency in Africa 2022 documents the region’s latest progress in tackling tax evasion and other illicit financial flows (IFFs) through transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.