25-04-2022 13:45
Regulating intermediaries to ensure a fair and user-friendly tax system
Hearings
FISC
On 25 April 2022, from 13:45 to 15:45, the FISC Subcommittee will hold a hearing on "How to reinforce the regulation of intermediaries to create an intermediary sector that ensures a fair and user-friendly tax system?". Tax Advisers Europe, KPMG, a tax professor and a specialised journalist will share their insights on the matter with FISC Members.
The hearing follows up to a first hearing on the Pandora Papers in November 2021, which focused on tax evasion and tax avoidance. The focus now moves to the role of tax intermediaries in tax avoidance and tax evasion. Tax intermediaries positively contribute to tax systems by facilitating tax compliance and tax collection. However, it appears that some of them are involved in the design, promotion and implementation of abusive tax schemes. In this context, the purpose of the hearing is to evaluate options to improve tax intermediaries' regulatory framework to ensure both that the sector is adequately equipped to further contribute to the well-functioning and amelioration of tax systems and that the system has in place all the necessary rules to deter them from playing any part in tax abusive activities.
- Draft programme (PDF - 381 KB)
- Webstreaming
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Ms. Khadija Sharife, Senior editor for Africa at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
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Mr. Grant Wardell-Johnson, KPMG Global Tax Policy Leader and Chair of the Global Tax Policy Leadership Group (accompanied by Ms. Raluca Enache, Director at KPMG EU Tax Centre, KPMG in The Netherlands)
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Mr. Aleksandar Ivanovski, Director of Tax Policy at CFE-Tax Advisers Europe (accompanied by Ms. Brodie McIntosh, Tax Policy Analyst at CFE-Tax Advisers Europe)
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Prof. Emer Mulligan, Professor in Taxation and Finance at the National University of Ireland, Galway