ITR Global Tax 50 2022: Achim Pross

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ITR Global Tax 50 2022: Achim Pross

Acting deputy director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD

Tax Certainty Day at the OECD

Achim Pross became acting deputy director at the OECD’s tax centre in November 2022 after many years of service as head of the international cooperation and tax administration division.

Pross is one of the central figures in creating tax certainty, transparency and effective global cooperation on tax matters. He is also an important individual in the OECD’s work on the two-pillar solution to taxing the digital economy.

He has overseen the International Compliance Assurance Programme from its earliest days as a pilot initiative to a voluntary scheme to improve compliance and reduce uncertainty for multinational companies.

As part of his focus on dispute prevention, Pross has worked on making advance pricing agreements and mutual agreement procedures more efficient for taxpayers. Naturally, Pross’s work has shifted to the digital economy and the race is on to settle the details of pillar one as countries implement pillar two.

Since Pascal Saint-Amans has retired as director of the OECD’s tax centre, the department is undergoing a transition and many cards will be reshuffled. Pross will be a key OECD figure to watch in 2023, and his influence on international policy is set to continue.

Global Tax 50 2022

Breaking down the entire 50 individually according to the impact they made would require too granular an approach. Each entry is in alphabetical order as part of categories, i.e. individuals, to make it simpler to navigate.

Industry figures
Tax authorities
Public officials
Noteworthy individuals
NGOs
 
Vice president of global transfer pricing and tax disputes, Johnson & Johnson
Chair of tax policy group, BusinessEurope
Director and head of international tax for Meta Latin America
Head of transfer pricing, AstraZeneca
Executive vice president of global tax and treasury, Unilever
Global head of tax, Siemens
Chair of the taxation committee, USCIB
Chair of the tax committee at BIAC
Commissioner of the Canada Revenue Agency
Commissioner of SARS
Minister of Revenue, New Zealand
Former IRS commissioner
Commissioner of the State Tax Administration
Executive secretary of ATAF
 
Director of direct taxation, coordination, economic analysis and evaluation, European Commission
Minister of finance, budget and national planning, Nigeria
US president
Departing president of Brazil
Secretariat of the economy, Mexico
Acting Head of the Tax Policy and Statistics Division, OECD
Co-chairs of the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters (UN Tax Committee)
Commissioner for the economy, European Commission
Minister of finance, Indonesia
Head of TIWB secretariat
Prime minister of Japan
US senators
Director-general of the Public Debt Management Office, Thai Ministry of Finance
Chair of the House Ways & Means Committee
Director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
Head of the GloBE unit, OECD
President of Colombia
Acting deputy director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Former director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Lord of Kingswood, UK
Minister of finance and corporate affairs, India
UK prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer
Chair of the Senate Finance Committee
Secretary of the US Treasury
 
CEO and global chairman, EY
Tax attorney, blogger and podcaster, Taxgirl
Former Uber lobbyist
Director of Tax Research UK
Director of Tax Policy Associates
CEO of Opportunity Green
 
Chief executive of Tax Justice Network
Acting director of TaxWatch
Former responsible tax lead at PIRC
Chief executive of Fair Tax Foundation
Director of the ICIJ
Principal analyst for CICTAR
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