The First CIAT Meeting of Juridical Areas was held on August 5 to 7 in Lima Peru, under the main theme of “Codification in Ibero-America: A View from the Tax Administrations”. It was jointly organized with the National Superintendency of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT) of Peru with the sponsorship of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

The event was inaugurated by the SUNAT Superintendent, Tania Quispe, the CIAT Executive Secretary, Márcio Ferreira Verdi and the GIZ Senior Project Manager, Joerg Wisner.

The meeting was an opportunity for launching a new collaboration network; on this occasion, of law professionals from the National Tax Administrations who participate in the formulation of draft tax regulations, as well as in those which the Institution issues, interprets or gives its opinion. Likewise, it allowed for initiating the updating of the CIAT Tax Code Model.

The participants included representatives from fifteen countries: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.

See Agenda and presentations.