Based on the Cooperation Agreement signed with the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, CIAT joined the second Latin American edition of the Seminar on Auditing Multinational Enterprises successfully held on July 18 through 23 at the facilities of the OECD’s Multilateral Tax Centre in Mexico City.

The event developed by OECD, was structured in an innovative and dynamic manner, which involved the integral consideration of multinational enterprise auditing aspects, from the theoretical standpoint, as well as through a very complete case study which the participants discussed and analyzed throughout the week of the event and which concluded with a “role play” simulating an interview between the taxpayer and the tax administration.

The panel of instructors was formed by well known experts in international taxation from the AEAT of Spain, SAT of Mexico and OECD, namely: Messrs. Domingo Carvajo, Luis Natera and Ubaldo Gonzalez respectively; and the CIAT International Cooperation Manager, Mr. Gonzalo Arias.

The participants were officials working in the large enterprise examination areas of the tax administrations of Brazil, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela as well as Morocco and Pakistan.

This activity was also a great opportunity for considering experiences, inconveniences and barriers faced by tax auditors of this complex segment of taxpayers, thereby evidencing the need of governments and international organizations to continue to devote efforts to promote exchange and mutual cooperation for strengthening this sphere of the tax administrations.

In the picture: The Panel of Instructors from left to right Mr. Luis Natera, the SAT of Mexico, Mr. Sunday Carvajo, the AEAT of Spain, Mr. Gonzalo Arias, Director of International Cooperation and the CIAT, and Mr. Ubaldo Gonzalez, Representative to the OECD