Plenary Session 5 - Shaping the Future Of VAT/GST: Priorities and Opportunities

Jan 28, 2026 — 01:30 pm - 2:30 PM
Plenary Room - CC1

Chair:
Claudia Vargas
Panel members:
Francesca Vitale, Lesley O'Connell Xego, Karl-Heinz Haydl, Hanna Lee, Kalale Mambwe, Laurent Cytermann, Petero Maivucevuce, Raul Zambrano
Plenary Session 5 - Shaping the Future Of VAT/GST: Priorities and Opportunities

Description of the Session

• Ensuring that VAT/GST remains fit for the future: identifying priorities for a continued global policy dialogue • Leveraging administrative co-operation to combat VAT/GST fraud and facilitate compliance • Capacity building and technical assistance to support VAT/GST reform • Integrating the business perspectives into the dialogue

Presentations

Sixth Meeting of the OECD Global Forum on VAT - Questionnaire

Francesca Vitale, Italy

Identifying priorities for continued global policy dialogue – A South African perspective

Lesley O'Connell Xego, South Africa

Business perspective

Karl-Heinz Haydl – Business at OECD (BIAC)

OECD technical assistance and capacity-building projects

Hanna Lee, OECD

The DEC Tool

Raul Zambrano, CIAT

Pacific One-stop-shop (POSS)

Petero Maivucevuce,PITAA

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