The ONE campaign describes corruption involving developing countries as the $1 trillion scandal and says the G20 must implement measures such as automatic information exchange (AIE) and the transparent publication of the revenues governments receive if the organisation wants to end it.
A UN body has highlighted the prospects of tax harmonisation and the elimination of tax competition in Asia-Pacific as methods for helping countries in the region to increase the amount of taxes they raise.
The Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT) in India has given taxpayers an extra two months to file their Tax Audit Report (TAR) for the Assessment Year 2014-2015 because of changes it made in July to the forms required. However, there is no extension for the filing of income tax returns, which are still required by September 30.
EXCLUSIVE: On Monday July 21 the OECD released the full version of the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters, which requires financial institutions to report detailed financial account information to their governments, which then exchange such information automatically with other jurisdictions on an annual basis. The Standard developed by OECD in response to a mandate by the G20 was first presented to and endorsed by the G20 Finance Ministers in February 2014.
