Commentaries prior to the 2014 Assembly The 48th CIAT General Assembly will take place on May 5 to 8 in the wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro. Technical issues of the Assembly will be centered on “The use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Tax Administration”. The profile and…
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CIAT publications in 2013 On Friday, January 10, a special edition of eCIAT News was sent to all our subscribers. They were invited to download a document referring to the CIAT publications in 2013. It was special because, as stated by Márcio. F. Verdi, Executive Secretary: “The CIAT, doing its…
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Or a nightmare called Bitcoin An Internet search for the word “Bitcoin” while writing this post resulted in 31 million entries on Google and ten million on bing. The search report showed news articles from newspapers and news sites in many parts of the world. Perhaps the title of the…
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A nightmare called Bitcoin Most probably I never forgot the day I met a vampire. It was daylight, clear and sunny. The vampire, who did not vanish with the light, told Socorro Velázquez and me his wanderings at night. He had a double life. In the first one, a more mundane…
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Comments on SMBs and employees I have just participated in an interesting workshop in Panama, financed by the United Nations and coordinated by the CIAT, in which were presented the conclusions of a study about designing a methodology for the tax transaction costs (administrative costs and compliance costs) for the small…
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and so is CIAT world A comment posted by Antonio Seco in a previous blog invited us to remember the six degrees of separation theory, showing that the world is small and that everyone on the planet could connect anyone through friends of friends in a surprisingly small number of…
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