October 21-25, 2024

From October 21 to 25, 2024, Rose Nyongesa, Bernard Schneider, and Irving Aw from the IMF Legal Department delivered the course on Current International Issues in Tax Law Design (TLWD) at the CICDC Shenzhen Training Center. 43 participants from China, Bangladesh, Georgia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand participated in the course. As a flagship course in collaboration with the State Taxation Administration (STA), the TLWD course has been delivered six times at the CICDC since 2018, with totally 206 participants from 35 countries and regions.

The course addressed a wide range of issues on the agendas of today’s tax policy makers and discussed the design of instruments to address those issues, including the tax challenges arising from digitalization. During the course, the counselors and course participants conducted a field trip to the Tax Service Center of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, where they experienced the Center’s range of smart and efficient tax service utilities and workflows. They also visited the headquarters of Huawei, where they observed from a corporate perspective how China's tax administration provides services to cross-border enterprises, and how the modernization of tax services brings practical impact to business operations.