Last May 15, 2015, within the framework of the  third United Nations Conference of Financing for Development held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Addis Tax Initiative has been launched, a proposal that emphasizes the importance of national revenues for financing the development, and which requires strengthening the fight against tax evasion and tax avoidance.

The initiative consists essentially of three major commitments:

Commitment 1: Strengthening technical cooperation to increase national income: As suppliers of cooperation for the development, the participants commit collectively to double our support to the technical cooperation in the field of taxation improvement from national income by the year 2020.

Commitment 2: Improving the national incomes in order to boost development: As participating countries, we reaffirm our commitment to increase the internal resources in order to increase the means of implementation to achieve the objectives of sustainable and inclusive development

Commitment 3: Ensure policy coherence: In addition to the commitments to increase the financing for development and increase the national incomes, we are committed to pursue the coherence of development policies.

The international cooperation is one of the main missions of the CIAT, and we are pleased to be part of the launch of this initiative. CIAT was represented by Mr. Alejandro Juarez, Director of Training and Development of Human Talent.

See: Declaration

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