The members of the Platform for Collaboration on Tax - United Nations, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank Group - will hold their first Global Conference on February 14-16, 2018 at the UN Headquarters in New York, under the theme “Taxation and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”. The conference will use as an input the work developed by Platform members, both jointly and separately, in connection with the themes covered in the conference. This first Global Conference of the Platform aims to:

(a) take forward the global dialogue on the role of tax in achieving the SDGs among senior policy makers and tax administrators from developing and advanced countries;

(b) obtain country insights and viewpoints on the challenges and opportunities countries see in using their tax systems to help achieve the SDGs. This would inform the future work of the members of the Platform, and possibly others active in the area, on how best to design support for countries to improve their tax systems.

The conference will consist of plenary and parallel sessions. There will be five plenary sessions, including an opening and closing session on the link between taxation and SDGs. Various parallel sessions will explore more in detail the linkages between taxation and the SDG.

The sessions will be structured around five thematic areas:

i) domestic resource mobilization and the state;

ii) the role of tax in supporting sustainable economic growth, investment and trade;

iii) tax and the social dimension-addressing poverty, inequality and health;

iv) capacity development;

v) tax cooperation the SDGs. 

By invitation only.