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  • 15-February-2023

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    New toolkit to strengthen the effective collection of value added taxes on e-commerce in Africa

    A new toolkit released today offers timely and valuable assistance to African tax administrations for the effective collection of VAT revenues on e-commerce.

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  • 15-February-2023

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    VAT Digital Toolkit for Africa

    This toolkit supports tax authorities on the continent with the design and implementation of measures to ensure the effective collection of value added taxes on e-commerce.

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  • 30-November-2022

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    Consumption Tax Trends 2022 - VAT/GST and Excise, Core Design Features and Trends

    Consumption Tax Trends provides information on Value Added Taxes/Goods and Services Taxes (VAT/GST) and excise duty rates in OECD member countries. It also contains information about international aspects of VAT/GST developments and the efficiency of this tax. It describes a range of other consumption taxation provisions on tobacco, alcoholic beverages, motor vehicles and aviation fuels.
  • 30-November-2022

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    Tax revenues rebounded as economies recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new OECD data

    Tax revenues bounced back in 2021 as OECD economies recovered from the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new OECD data released today.

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  • 10-March-2022

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    VAT Digital Toolkit for Asia-Pacific

    The VAT Digital Toolkit for Asia-Pacific aims to assist tax authorities in the Asia-Pacific region with the design and implementation of reform to ensure the effective collection of value added taxes on e-commerce activities.

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  • 23-June-2021

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    VAT Digital Toolkit for Latin America and the Caribbean

    This Toolkit aims to assist tax authorities in the Latin America and Caribbean region with the design and implementation of policy reform to ensure the effective collection of VAT on e-commerce activities.

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  • 30-April-2021

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    Brochure - OECD work on taxation

    This brochure highlights the key areas of work of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration and the various groups that it serves.

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  • 19-April-2021

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    The Impact of the Growth of the Sharing and Gig Economy on VAT/GST Policy and Administration

    This report aims at assisting tax authorities in designing and implementing an effective Value Added Tax/Goods and Services Tax (VAT/GST) policy response to the growth of the sharing and gig economy. The rise of this phenomenon, powered by digital platforms, has transformed a number of industries within just a few short years. It involves large numbers of new economic operators (often private individuals), who monetise (often) underutilised goods and services by offering these, via digital platforms, for temporary ('shared') use by primarily private consumers. Questions have been raised whether existing VAT/GST policy and administration frameworks are sufficiently capable of dealing with this new economic reality notably with a view to protecting VAT/GST revenue and minimising economic distortions. This report sets out the core components of a comprehensive VAT/GST policy strategy for tax authorities to consider in response. It analyses the key features of the sharing and gig economy and its main business models; identifies the associated VAT/GST challenges and opportunities; and presents a wide range of possible measures and approaches to support an effective policy response. This includes detailed guidance on the possible role of digital platforms in facilitating and enhancing VAT/GST compliance in the sharing and gig economy.
  • 19-April-2021

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    Digital platforms have an important role to play in value added tax policy in the sharing and gig economy

    Digital platforms can play an important role in the application of Value Added Taxes/Goods and Services Taxes policies in the sharing and gig economy, according to a new OECD report.

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  • 10-August-2020

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    Reassessing the regressivity of the VAT

    This paper reassesses the often-made conclusion that the VAT is regressive, drawing on tax microsimulation models constructed for an unprecedented 27 OECD countries. The paper first assesses the competing methodological approaches used in previous distributional studies, highlighting the distorting impact of savings patterns on cross-sectional analysis when VAT burdens are measured relative to income. As argued by IFS (2011), measuring VAT burdens relative to expenditure – thereby removing the influence of savings – is likely to provide a more meaningful picture of the distributional impact of the VAT. On this basis, the VAT is found to be either roughly proportional or slightly progressive in most of the 27 OECD countries examined. Nevertheless, results for a small number of countries highlight that broad-based VAT systems that have few reduced VAT rates or exemptions can produce a small degree of regressivity. Results also show that even a roughly proportional VAT can still have significant equity implications for the poor – potentially pushing some households into poverty. This emphasises the importance of ensuring the progressivity of the tax-benefit system as a whole in order to compensate poor households for the loss in purchasing power from paying VAT. In the broader context of the COVID-19 crisis, the findings of the paper suggest there may be scope in many countries for VAT reform to help address revenue needs, as this revenue may be generated with less significant distributional effects than previously thought. While standard VAT rates are high in many countries, OECD evidence shows that scope exists to broaden VAT bases. Nevertheless, any VAT increases, including VAT base broadening measures that impact the poor, should be accompanied by compensation measures for poorer households, such as targeted tax credits or benefit payments.
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