tax convention [ international tax convention | taxation agreement | taxation convention | taxation treaty | tax treaties(UNBIS) ]

tax agreement | tax convention | tax treaty

International Fiscal Association [ IFA | International Association for Public Finance and Finance Law ]

International Fiscal Association | IFA [Abbr.]

International Tax Agreements Series

Customs and International Fiscal Affairs

State Secretariat for International Financial and Tax Matters [ SIFT ]

tax relief [ relief from taxes | tax abatement | tax advantage | tax allowance | tax concession | tax credit | tax deduction | tax reduction | Tax incentive(STW) | tax credits(UNBIS) | tax deductions(UNBIS) ]

fiscal policy [ taxation policy | tax policy | taxation(UNBIS) ]

13. Strongly supports the range of existing international initiatives to reform the global system, including the OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative, with a focus on the increased participation of developing countries in the structures and procedures of international tax cooperation; urges the EU and the Member States to ensure that the UN taxation committee is transformed into a genuine intergovernmental body, better equipped and with sufficient additional resources, inside the framework of the UN Economic and Social Council, ensuring that all countries can participate on an equal footing in the formulation and refo ...[+++]rm of global tax policies; stresses that sanctions should be considered both for non-cooperative jurisdictions and for financial institutions that operate within tax havens;

In private member's Motion No. 485, the member for Rivière-du-Nord has called on the government to “study and measure Canadian tax losses to international tax havens and tax evasion, in order to determine the Canadian federal 'tax gap'”.

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) study and measure Canadian tax losses to international tax havens and tax evasion, in order to determine the Canadian federal “tax gap”; (b) order the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to provide the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) with the information necessary to provide an independent estimate of the Canadian federal tax gap arising from tax evasion and tax avoidance through the use of tax havens; (c) mandate the Auditor General or the PBO to provide estimates of the marginal revenue of additional CRA resources (i.e. auditors) in the areas of tax evasion and tax avoidance; ...[+++]and (d) mandate the Auditor General to evaluate, on a regular basis, the success of the CRA in prosecuting and settling cases of tax evasion.

Senator LeBreton: Honourable senators, to put this into perspective, since 2006 we have introduced over 75 measures to improve the integrity of the tax system, including increasing the size of the international audit program by 40 per cent; requiring mandatory reporting of international electronic fund transfers of over $10,000; streamlining the judicial process that provides the CRA authorization to obtain information from third parties, such as banks; and recently investing $30 million to target international tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance.