8 – 9 February 2022, Bangkok, Thailand

At the invitation of RTC Indonesia, Mr. Norikazu Kuramoto, the Head of the ROCB A/P participated the ‘International Conference on Customs and Tax Cooperation’ held virtually on 8 – 9 February 2022.  Program Manager of the ROCB A/P, Ms. Sherman Yu also joined the meeting to provide support.

Mr. Kuramoto delivered his keynote remarks at this event. In his speech, he highlighted that environmental scan and brainstorming are key to move forward to the cooperation with tax authority. He explained that the cooperation between tax authority and Customs could be very beneficial and meaningful and you can expect that there will be synergy effect in tax collection mutually related the goods in cross-border movement as importations and exportations. On the other hand, he also affirmed current situation that different administrations or countries have their own rules and systems in taxation by Customs and tax authority. Thus, there is no common template for the details and how to proceed. It means that member Customs need to consider tailor-made approach and solutions that fit their own situation by lively brainstorming. To conclude his speech, he encouraged Customs administrations to provide specialized training program on the cooperation with tax authority in house utilized by WCO tools and guidelines so as to equip themselves to become wonderful expert in taxation cooperation with tax authority.

This conference was initiated and hosted by Indonesia Customs and Excise Education and Training Center as RTC Indonesia. In the 1st day of the Conference, the theme was ‘Strengthening Cooperation Between Customs and Tax Authorities to Optimize State Revenue’. The theme for 2nd day of the Conference was ‘Enhancing The Exchanging of Information between Customs and Tax Authority to Improve Compliance’.

The conference was opened with remark delivered by Mr. Andin Hadiyanto, Head of Financial Education and Training Agency, Republic of Indonesia followed by the keynote remarks given by Mr. Sudarto, Assistant of Minister for Organization, Bureaucracy, and Information Technology, Republic of Indonesia. Speakers from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Central Transformation Office (CTO) and WCO were invited to deliver presentations respectively. They shared their perspectives and the insights about customs valuation and transfer pricing. The participants showed strong interest and raised quite a number of questions during the subsequent plenary session.

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