The Commonwealth Management Development Programme for tax administrators for 2009 will be held at the Mauritius Revenue Authority Headquarters in Port Louis, Mauritius from 19 October to 13 November 2009. Further details will be published shortly.

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Newsletter, June 2009
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It has been confirmed that the conference to be hosted this year by Malawi will be held in Lilongwe, and not Mangochi as stated in Circular 2 of 2009. The venue will be the Crossroads Hotel, Lilongwe. The conference dates and topics are unchanged.

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To register for the conference, log in to the members area and download the registration form. Please note that a fresh registration is required if you registered prior to the venue change. The revised closing date for registration is 15 May 2009.

To download a copy of form GID/1, log in to the members area and select "funding".

CATA's eleventh General Meeting will precede the technical sessions of this year's annual Conference, on Monday 28 September 2009, at the Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe, Malawi. Documents relating to the General Meeting will be published later this year.

Mr S. Sivalingam was recently awarded the title of Dato by the Malaysian Government for his outstanding contribution in the field of international taxation and fiscal policy. Mr Sivalingam was a founder member of CATA and Chairman of CATA's Management Committee from 1985 to 1991.

Professor Mills (right) with the Executive Director during the CATA conference in Accra in 2001The Executive Director has sent congratulations on behalf of CATA to Professor John Atta Mills, on his recent election as the next President of Ghana. As Ghana's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Professor Mills served as a member of CATA's Management Committee from 1991 to 1994 and was a very active and well respected supporter of CATA's programmes.

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".