Both the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development stress the need for enhancing international tax cooperation, including through greater coordination of the work of the concerned multilateral institutions. International rules, policies and cooperative arrangements play an important role in ensuring that national Governments have the ability to raise sufficient revenue domestically while still ensuring needed investment.

The third International Conference on Financing for Development has the potential to analyse the current landscape, with all its complexities, help identify priorities for reform and make concrete suggestions for improved international tax cooperation. This session will explore how international organizations can work together in order to facilitate a more development-oriented approach to setting/updating international tax norms, enhancing tax transparency and exchange of information mechanisms and considering how to overcome knowledge and skills gaps that will otherwise constitute barriers to development.

Programme and Briefing note (with links to presentations)