The Workshop on the Taxation of International Transactions for senior and middle level tax officials will be hosted by the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia, from 14 May to 1 June 2012.

Applications must be made using Form MTA 3. All applications must be submitted through the applicant’s Government to the Malaysian Tax Academy. Please note that the closing date for the applications is 23 March 2012.

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Newsletter, December 2011
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CATA's 12th General Meeting and 33rd Annual Technical Conference will be hosted by the Inland Revenue Department of Malta, between 14 and 19 October 2012. (The General Meeting will precede the Conference).

The venue will be the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Valletta. The two topics for discussion will be "Self Assessment: Issues and Challenges", and "ICT as a platform for modern revenue administration”.

The 32nd Annual Technical Conference was held at the Galadari Hotel in Colombo, the warm capital of Sri Lanka, from the 18th to the 23rd September 2011. It was opened by Dr. P.B. Jayasundara, Secretary, Ministry of Finance & Planning and  Ministry of Economic Development, Sri Lanka (video of the opening ceremony below). The two theme topics for this year, Transfer Pricing and Taxpayer Education as a Compliance Tool proved to be very popular among participants. With presentations from various Member States together with others from international organisations such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Inter American Centre for Tax Administrations (CIAT) and the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF), the discussions proved to be as intense as they were diverse. The conference host, the Department of Inland Revenue under the leadership of the Commissioner General Mr K. M. S. Kandegedara made the conference especially interesting with incredible social events during some evenings. CATA wishes to extend its profound gratitude to the people of Sri Lanka for the warm hospitality they extended to participants during the Conference. Ayubowan !!!

Read the final communique here

CATA is pleased to announce the recent publication of two guides.

"Examination of Accounts for Tax Auditing",by Jameel Ahmed Bhutto, is a new booklet intended to help tax auditors identify material defects and distortions in accounts prepared with the wilful intention of avoiding the proper taxation of income.

"Tax Audit Techniques in Cash Based Economies", by Sheikh Sajjad Hassan, is the second edition of CATA's popular practical guide to the detection of unrecorded cash transactions, first published in 2005.  This edition has been comprehensively updated, and includes new material on brokers and estate agents and expanded sections on importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses and insurance companies.                                                                                                       

Click here to purchase these guides from the Commonwealth Secretariat online book store

CATA and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) are pleased to announce the introduction of a new E-learning product – Tax Audit Fundamentals (TAF), for use by CATA members.

TAF is an interactive learning experience designed to take new auditors through each stage of conducting an audit. It may be completed entirely online, or alternatively downloaded in PDF format for offline use. An exercise is presented at the conclusion of each unit of TAF to reinforce the learning objectives. There is also a final exercise at the end of the product to enable the learner to check the level of comprehension of basic auditing attained. We encourage all users to provide feedback about TAF to the CRA through the questionnaire included as part of the product. The CRA will monitor user feedback on an ongoing basis.

To access TAF please log in to the members area and select "e-learning: Tax Audit Fundamentals".