News from the Executive Director, Dr. Esther A. P. Koisin

For the first time in its twenty-four-year history, CATA’s Taxation of International Transactions (TOIT) Programme was held virtually. Due to the international travel restrictions following the COVID-19 pandemic, members participated in the 2020 edition of the programme remotely instead of at the usual venue of the Malaysian Tax Academy. Although

Following the success of the Tax Policy and Tax Administration Responses to COVID-19 Virtual Meeting for Asian and Pacific countries held on 14th May 2020, CATA in collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Caribbean Organisation for Tax Administrators (COTA) hosted a meeting on the same topic for Caribbean nations.

CATA, in collaboration with EY, hosted a virtual meeting for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean to discuss the positioning of SIDS in the new international environment. The event took place on 27th July 2020 and attendees included representatives from The Bahamas, Barbados,

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The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) has published a working paper titled ‘The Taxation of the Digitalised Economy: An African Study’. This study

Nearly 100 participants from 29 jurisdictions, including 14 CATA member countries, joined an online meeting to discuss tax policies and measures that governments in the Asia-Pacific region could implement as part of their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The G20 2nd Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting was held
virtually on 15 th April 2020. Discussions of the meeting focused

Celebrations took place across the Commonwealth on 9th March 2020 to mark Commonwealth Day. In London, where the Commonwealth Secretariat is based, a memorial service was held in the morning to pay tribute to the five million Commonwealth women and men who

The OECD has released a public consultation document on ‘Model Rules for Reporting by Platform Operators with respect to Sellers in the Shared and Gig Economy’ The document …..

Unfortunately, the 41st CATA Technical Conference will no longer take place in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. More information to follow.

The Maldives was welcomed back to the Commonwealth on 1st
February 2020 following the country’s withdrawal of its membership in 2016.
With the re-admission of Maldives, the