The Executive Director has extended a very warm welcome to the Isle of Man, which has become CATA's 49th member. The Isle of Man will be represented within the Association by the Income Tax Division of the Isle of Man's Treasury.

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”.

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To register for the conference, please log in to the members area and select "register for 2012 conference" from the left sidebar to download the registration form, hotel booking form and essential advice on obtaining a visa. Please note that the closing date for registration is 31 July 2012.

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Please note that the closing date for applications is 17 February 2012.

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Please note that the closing date for applications is 17 February 2012.

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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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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".