18th Tax Conference on International Model Tax Treaties: Pacific Island Countries
Agenda

Registration

Opening Ceremony
MC: Teruo Ujiie, Senior Capacity Development Specialist, RSDD/RSGP, ADB, Manila

Opening Remarks - Tadashi Yokoyama, Director International Tax Policy Division, Tax Bureau, Ministry of Finance (MOF), Tokyo

Welcome Address - Kuniki Nakamori, Resident Director General, Japan Representative Office, Tokyo

Photo Session/Coffee Break

Keynote Speech - Taxing Paradise: Taxation in Pacific Island Countries
Margaret Cotton, Revenue Advisor, Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre, Suva, Fiji

• Presentation: Taxing Paradise: Taxation in Pacific Island Countries [ PDF 153.3KB | 16 pages ]

Lunch Break

Session on the OECD Model Tax Treaty (I) and Country Presentations (I)
Moderator: David Kruger, Senior Capacity Building Specialist, Capacity Building & Training Division, ADBI, Tokyo

OECD Model Tax Treaty (Part I)
David Partington, Principal Administrator, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA), OECD, Paris

• Presentation: An Introduction to the Role and Structure of Tax Treaties [ PDF 169.5KB | 47 pages ]

Coffee Break

Country Presentations (Part I) - All Pacific DMCs

Cocktail Reception hosted by ADBI

Session on the OECD Model Tax Treaty (II) and Country Presentations (II)
Moderator: D. Kruger

Country Presentations (II) - All Pacific DMCs

Coffee Break

OECD Model Tax Treaty (Part II)
D. Partington

Lunch Break

Session on Drafting a Domestic Law and Thai Experience in Tax Treaties
Moderator: D. Kruger

Designing and Drafting a Domestic Law to Implement an International Tax Treaty
Kiyoshi Nakayama, Advisor, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C.

• Presentation: Designing and Drafting a Domestic Law to Implement an International Tax Treaty [ PDF 77KB | 42 pages ]

Coffee Break

Thai Experience in International Tax Treaty Negotiations
Patricia Mongkhhonvanit, Senior Tax Economist, Bureau of Tax Policy and Planning, Revenue Department of Thailand, Bangkok

• Presentation: Thai Experience in International Tax Treaty Negotiations [ PDF 302KB | 57 pages ]

Session on Japan's Policy for Int'l Taxation and Emerging Issues
Moderator: T. Ujiie

How to Improve the Capacity to Comply to International Taxation Standards
Victor van Kommer, Director, Knowledge Centre, International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), Amsterdam

• Presentation: How to Improve the Capacity to Comply to International Taxation Standards [ PDF 558.7KB | 23 pages ]

Coffee Break

Japan's Policy for International Taxation
Tadashi Yokoyama, Director, International Tax Policy Division, Tax Bureau, MOF, Tokyo

• Presentation: Japan's Policy for International Taxation [ PDF 260.1KB | 26 pages ]

Luncheon hosted by MOF

Sessions on the UN Model Tax Treaty
Moderator: R. Krever

UN Model Tax Treaty (Part I)
Michael Lennard, Chief, Int'l, Tax Cooperation Section, Financing for Development Office, U.N. Department of Economics & Social Affairs, United Nations, N.Y.

• Presentation: The Tax Work of the United Nations and the UN Model Tax Convention [ PDF 214.5KB | 88 pages ]

Coffee Break

UN Model Tax Treaty (Part II)
Michael Lennard

Session on the Philippine Experience and Emerging Issues
Moderator: T. Ujiie

Philippine experience in International Tax Treaty
James H. Roldan, Assistant Commissioner, Legal Service Negotiations, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Department of Finance, Quezon City

• Presentation: Philippine experience in International Tax Treaty [ PDF 774.5KB | 15 pages ]

Coffee Break

Extending Dialogue on International Taxation
Yoku Yamazaki, Deputy Head Center for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD, Paris

• Presentation: Extending Dialogue on International Taxation [ PDF 301.4KB | 34 pages ]

Lunch Break

Recent Developments in Transfer Pricing
Michael Kobetsky, Taxation Fellow, Faculty of Law, Australian National University

• Presentation: Recent Developments in Transfer Pricing [ PDF 35.7KB | 15 pages ]

Coffee Break

An Analysis of Patterns in Pacific Island Tax Treaties
Rick Krever, Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University, Australia

• Presentation: An Analysis of Patterns in Pacific Island Tax Treaties [ PDF 396.3KB | 57 pages ]

Wrap-up and Closing Session

Wrap-up and Closing Remarks - Worapot Manupipatpong, Director, CBT, ADBI, Tokyo

Cocktail Reception hosted by OECD