• Tax Policy and Controversy – Interview with the Executive Secretary, Mr. Márcio F. Verdi
• Fifteenth IOTA General Assembly
• Working Group on Estimation of Effective Tax Burden on Investment Concluded its First Meeting

• Argentina – Tax Collection in June 2011
• Brazil – Implementation of New Individual Assistance System Begins
• Costa Rica Has Already Signed Twelve Tax Information Exchange Agreements
• Costa Rica Eliminated From Tax Haven List
• Nicaragua – DGI makes available the ElectronicTax teller for speeding up the filing of Tax Returns
• Panama – Deputy Minister De Lima explains Double Taxation Treaty benefits to Mexican and Panamanian entrepreneurs
• Paraguay – Undersecretariat of Taxation intensifies controls on IMAGRO Taxpayers
• United States of America – IRS Technology Modernization Efforts Avoid Budget Cuts From House Committee

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• CIAT Publishes New Edition of the Tax Administration

• RF of Brazil and CIAT meet in Brasilia

• Canada – Electronic Filing Continues to be the Popular Choice for Canadians
• Costa Rica – Government Submitted Substitutive Text of Tax Solidarity Bill
• Czech Republic – Minister of Finance Awarded TOP 20 Legal Entities
• France – Minister of Finance of France, Christine Lagarde, New IMF Managing Director
• Guatemala – IV Citizen Culture Festival “Together We Can Do Much More” was successfully held
• Guatemala – Seminar on Municipal Collection is Held
• Paraguay – Contest on Tax Issues Generates Interest among Paraguayan University Students
• United States of America – The Internal Revenue Service plans to move against “one or more banks”
• United States of America – 55 Reviews By Global High Wealth Group Under Way.

• Announcement of Fourth CIAT Contest on Innovation in the Tax Administrations
• CIAT Institutional Development and Events Manager meets with the Bermuda Tax Commissioner
• CIAT/AEAT (SPAIN) Seminar on “Internal control as managerial task in the Tax Administrations”
• CIAT Executive Secretary Visits the State Agency of Tax Administration (AEAT)
• Closing seminar of the VII edition of the International Master’s Program on Tax Administration and Public Finance

• Brazil – China Analyze Customs Agreement
• Canada: The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of National Revenue
• Costa Rica – General Directorate of Taxation Recovered Over 10 Billion Colones in Taxes in only Three Months
• Ecuador – SRI and AFIP of Argentina Sign Agreement for Exchanging Tax Information
• Ecuador – Uruguay Collaborate to Avoid Tax Evasion
• Mexico – Main results of Annual Filing
• Paraguay – Brazilian businessmen continue to register  Unified Tax Regime
• Peru – Over 2,000 SMEs already use Electronic Invoicing
• Peru – SUNAT Intervenes 52 Casino and Slot Machine Facilities For S/. 24 Million Debt
• Spain – New State Secretary of Finance and General Director of the Spanish Tax Agency have been appointed
• United States of America – Electronic Filing: IRS Official Highlights Importance of Technology Advancements for Agency Goals.
• United States of America – Agency Strategy for Individual Accounts Important Too

• CIAT updates its “Analysis of the legal framework for the control of transfer pricing in Latin America” report
• CIAT/GIZ/OECD SAT of Guatemala Seminar-Workshop on Transfer Pricing and Exchange of Tax Information was Successfully Concluded
• CREDAF held its 27th General Assembly and 26th International Conference

• Colombia -Control and Sanctions on Net Worth Tax
• Ecuador – Uruguay Cooperate to Avoid Tax Evasion
• Ecuador – April 27 is Tax Culture Day in Ecuador
• Kenya – KRA Impounds Elephant Tusks
• Kenya – EAC Reads $96m Budget
• Paraguay – University students participate in competition about taxes. “SET of questions” was implemented in Paraguay
• Peru – Growth of the Economy Allowed a 36% Increase in Income Tax Regularization
• Peru – Imports Exceeded US$3 Billion of Monthly value in April
• Czech Republic– The Regional Meeting of the Visegrád Six Countries in Prague

• CIAT updates its “Analysis of the legal framework for the control of transfer pricing in Latin America” report