CF&P Event Will Precede OECD Global Forum In November

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

20 October 2005

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) has announced that it will hold a Tax Competition Conference in Melbourne, Australia preceding the OECD's Global Forum on International Tax Policy in November.

Co-hosted by Australia's Centre for Independent Studies and the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, the conference will take place on Monday, November 14th and will focus on the virtues of tax competition and explore the adverse consequences of tax harmonization.

CF&P says that the conference is designed to promote discussion and understanding about tax competition issues: 'particularly the OECD's persecution of low-tax jurisdictions and the negative impact of tax harmonization on the global economy'. The event will also give non-OECD policy makers useful information as they prepare to meet with the OECD.

The Conference is bringing together leading international tax experts from the United States and Australia to discuss how best to preserve tax competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty. An OECD representative has been invited to participate in the event.

The OECD will convene their Global Forum in Melbourne (November 15 & 16) in part to convince targeted non-OECD jurisdictions that there is a "level playing field" between them and the 30 OECD countries, notwithstanding the fact that numerous OECD member nations do not share information with foreign tax authorities.

This is the sixth conference that CF&P has held to coincide with an OECD Global Tax Forum. Previous conferences have been held in Barbados, London, Paris, Ottawa and Berlin. For further details or to register your interest please email events@cis.org.au or call CIS on (+612) 9438 4377.

Recommended