OECD Forum on Tax Administration Plenary 2023

Keynote Speech

•  Acting Minister for Transport and Senior Minister of State (SMS) for Finance, Mr Chee Hong Tat

What are you expecting to keep you awake at night

• Introduction by Commissioner Jérôme Fournel, FTA Vice Chair
• “Snowball” discussion

COFFEE BREAK

Tax Administration 3.0: Next steps - Collaboration and Partnering

• Introduction by Commissioner Nina Schanke Funnemark, Norwegian Tax Administration (NTA)
• The view from business by Georg Geberth, Business at OECD

Collaboration in practice – Singapore’s Smart Nation Initiative

• Mr. Chan Cheow Hoe, Government Chief Digital Technology Officer, Smart Nation and Digital Government Office, Singapore
  

Strategic challenges for digital transformation

• Introduction by Commissioner Nina Schanke Funnemark, NTA and Commissioner Ng Wai Choong, IRAS
• Discussion at tables and feedback

LUNCH

Integration with taxpayers’ natural systems in practice

Country presentations by:

• Commissioner Hernán Frigolett, Chilean Internal Revenue Service
• Commissioner Peter Mersi, Inland Revenue Department, New Zealand

Capacity building – The FTA offer

• Discussion led by Commissioner Angela MacDonald, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), United Kingdom

 Hackathons – leveraging collaboration

• Introduction to the multilateral hackathon:
  • o Commissioner Ng Wai Choong, IRAS
  • o Rana Hachem-Boulahia, Adviser, OECD
  • o Iryan Akbari, Indonesian Directorate General of Taxes
• Meet the hackathon teams

SESSION IV – HACKATHON

Hackathon outcomes

• “Elevator pitches” by each hackathon team

SESSION V - OUR PEOPLE

HR as a strategic function

• Introduction by Commissioner Katrin Westling Palm, Swedish Tax Agency
• Breakout Groups:
  • Group 1 Gender and diversity: Understanding and addressing unconscious bias discussions introduced by:

    • Commissioner Helena Borges, Portuguese Tax and Customs Authority

    • Undersecretary of Corporate Management Juliano Brito da Justa Neves, Federal Revenue Service of Brazil
  • Group 2: Driving digital transformation: Strategic core components regarding organizational culture, leadership and skills discussions introduced by:
    • Director General Markku Heikura, Finnish Tax Administration
    • Deputy Director-General Sezen Tas, Netherlands Tax Administration
  • Group 3: New ways of working: longer term impacts and considerations discussions introduced by
    • Commissioner Ieva Jaunzeme, Latvian State Revenue Service
    • Commissioner Edward Kieswetter, South African Revenue Service

Tax debt – Striking the right balance

• Trends over time: Oliver Petzold, Senior Adviser, CTPA, OECD
  
• Discussions led by:
  • Governor Giorgios Pitsilis, Independent Authority for Public Revenue, Greece
  • Commissioner Hitoshi Sumisawa, National Tax Agency, Japan

Digital transformation: Next steps in FTA collaboration

• Plenary Room Breakout: Chaired by Commissioner Jérôme Fournel, FTA Vice Chair
  • Mr Wassal Almalki, Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority, Saudi Arabia
  • Director General Virginia Muñoz Fernández, Spanish Tax Agency
  • Deputy Commissioner Zhao Jing, State Taxation Administration, China (People’s Republic of)
• Breakout Group 1: Chaired by Second Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn, Australian Taxation Office (ATO)
  • Commissioner Danny Werfel, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), United States
  • Commissioner Merete Agergaard, Danish Tax Administration
  • Ms Pragya Sahay Saksena, Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxation, India
• Breakout Group 2: Chaired by Governor Giorgios Pitsilis, Independent Authority for Public Revenue, Greece
  • Commissioner Ruth Kennedy, Revenue, Irish Tax and Customs
  • Mr Ahmet Yildirim, Head of Department of EU & Foreign Affairs, Turkish Revenue Administration
  • Commissioner Ferenc Vágujhelyi, Hungarian Tax and Customs Administration

Updating each other and identifying priorities

• Introductory remarks by:
  • Dr. Achim Pross, Deputy Director, CTPA, OECD
  • Prof. Dr. Luise Hölscher, State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Germany
  • Giammarco Cottani, Business at OECD
• Discussion at tables

SESSION IX - ENHANCING TRUST

Joining-up to tackle tax evasion, tax crime and other crimes

• Introduction by:
  • Commissioner Jérôme Fournel, FTA Vice Chair
  • Second Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn, ATO
• Discussion at Tables