Author: Oecd

Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789264253988

A Tax Control Framework (TCF) is the part of the system of internal control that assures the accuracy and completeness of the tax returns and disclosures made by an enterprise. The TCF plays a central part in bringing rigour to the co-operative compliance concept. The objective of this report is to provide guidance that is meant to be helpful for businesses to design and operate their TCFs and for revenue bodies to adjust the risk management strategy for an individual large business in the context of a (voluntary) co-operative compliance relationship as laid out in the FTA report Study into the Role of Tax Intermediaries (OECD, 2008), the 2013 report, and the September 2013 BIAC Statement of Tax Principles for International Business (see Annex A). The broad conclusions of this report are that when the tax control framework of a multinational enterprise participating in cooperative compliance programme is determined to be effective, and when the enterprise provides complete disclosures that include relevant information and tax risks and is transparent to the revenue body, the extent of reviews and audits of the returns submitted to it can be reduced significantly. In these circumstances, the revenue body may rely on the returns submitted to it and trust that uncertain tax positions and other problematic tax positions taken in that return will be brought to its attention.