Through participating in multilateral OECD courses and expert missions, member countries can benefit from the high OECD credibility amongst participating countries and at the same time, gain visibility for their own programme's contribution.


The 2001 programme and beyond
For 2001, the Committee is organising more than 100 events with non-member countries. These include high-level international conferences, multilateral and country-specific seminars, and expert missions. In addition to meetings at the OECD, the Committee operates four multilateral tax centres (in Austria, Hungary, Korea and Turkey); more than 25 weeks of courses and workshops are planned for these centres in 2001. In addition, in-country tax centres are operated in Russia and China. Special regional programmes have been developed for Central and Latin America, Asia and the Baltic countries. In total approximately 40 weeks of regional activities are planned for 2001. Operating through these tax centres greatly facilitates the administration of the programme, reduce costs and allow more events to be held. In all these activities, the Committee has developed partnerships with the major regional and international organisations active in the area of taxation as well as major member country funding agencies to minimise duplication and exploit synergies. These include Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrators (IOTA), the Inter-American Centre of Tax Administrations (CIAT), Centre de Rencontres de d'Etudes des Dirigeants des Administrations Fiscales (CREDAF) and the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA), as well as the IMF, World Bank and the UN.






The OECD Multilateral Tax Centres

The OECD Multilateral Tax Centres
The organisation of regional seminars and workshops is one of the key elements of the OECD taxation programme. In 1991 the OECD established a network of Multilateral Tax Centres. Since the programme's launching more than 300 activities have been organised at the Centres. These have ranged from two-day workshops on income tax policy to three-week seminars on international taxation and tax treaties. More than 6300 senior and mid-level tax officials from Ministries of Finance and tax administrations from 33 countries have participated in the OECD multilateral tax courses so far. Currently there are four Multilateral Tax Centres; Ankara, Budapest, Vienna and Chonan. The Copenhagen Centre, having completed its mission, was closed in 1998.

The Ankara centre is hosted by the Turkish Ministry of Finance in co-operation with the Turkish International Co-operation Agency (TICA). It provides up to 14 weeks of seminars and workshops on both domestic and international tax issues a year.