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Hanif Alam is an official specialising in international VAT policy within the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. In recent years, he has developed and led the OECD’s work on addressing the VAT challenges of the crypto-asset economy. He has drafted and presented several in-depth working papers on the key elements of the topic for delegates to the OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs’ Working Party No. 9 on Consumption Taxes.
Commencing at the OECD in January 2020, Hanif was also a central member of the core team that developed the flagship VAT Digital Toolkit publications for Latin America and the Caribbean (2021), Asia-Pacific (2022), and Africa (2023), in cooperation with the World Bank Group and key regional multilateral partner organisations. He currently contributes to several projects delivering wide-ranging technical assistance to countries worldwide through the OECD’s VAT capacity building programme.
Prior to the OECD, Hanif was an official within Her Majesty’s Treasury in the UK, heading up the branch of VAT policy responsible for the UK government’s strategic response to VAT fraud and evasion. He began his early career in forensic accounting and financial audit at Deloitte.
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