Tunisian tax officials and Global Forum Secretariat discuss strategies for using automatically-exchanged data

 

18/06/2024 - The Global Forum is assisting Tunisia in determining best strategies for using automatically-exchanged data on financial accounts (AEOI data), which the country will start receiving in 2025. Experts from the Global Forum Secretariat led a seminar in Tunis on 11-13 June 2024 on the use of AEOI data. The event brought together exchange of information officers, tax auditors, officers in charge of recovery of tax claims and IT analysts and engineers from the Tunisian tax administration.

The seminar provided an opportunity to explore the full range of options for exploiting AEOI data, to enhance taxpayers' compliance, control high-risk non-compliant taxpayers and to improve existing tax processes, particularly tax collection. Participants discussed the existing constraints for each of these opportunities, and potential solutions to reap the full benefits of AEOI.

During the seminar, the Global Forum Secretariat also presented the various tools and methods available for data cleansing and matching.

Background information:

• Update on the Implementation of the 2021 Strategy on Unleashing the Potential of Automatic Exchange of Information for Developing Countries (July 2023)
  
  
• Status of commitments to the automatic exchange of financial account information
  

The Global Forum is the leading multilateral body mandated to ensure that jurisdictions around the world adhere to and effectively implement both the exchange of information on request standard and the standard of automatic exchange of information. These objectives are achieved through a robust monitoring and peer review process. The Global Forum also runs an extensive capacity-building programme to support its members in implementing the standards and help tax authorities make the best use of cross-border information sharing channels.

The Global Forum's technical assistance programme to Tunisia is funded by the European Union.

For more information, please contact gftaxcooperation@oecd.org.