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Page ContentOn October 27-28, Moscow will host the eighth meeting of the Consultative Committee on Tax Policy and Administration under the EEC chaired by the Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Economy and Financial Policy Timur Suleimenov. The meeting will be attended by representatives of tax services of the Eurasian Economic Union (the EAEU). The Agenda includes about 20 different issues. Thus, the meeting participants are going to consider projects of international legal acts in the sphere of indirect taxation – Agreements on principles of tax policy in the field of excise duties for alcohol and tobacco products of the EAEU Member States. They will also discuss the most problematic issues related to payment of indirect taxes in mutual trade: - on improving procedures of indirect tax return in the domestic market, including for developing the procedure for VAT reimbursement (return) in international transportation operations; - on exchanging applications on import of commodities and payment of indirect taxes; - on taxation in mutual trade between the EAEU Member States; - on levying VAT when carrying out the current uncoupling repairs of railway rolling stock; - on application of the rent export tax by the tax authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan in relation to the Kazakhstani companies selling coal on the territory of the EAEU Member States; - on the issue of late receipt of relevant data from the Reference Book of the Single Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity and revision of the current scheme of receiving information from the Single Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity by the tax authorities of the EAEU Member States; - on problematic issues that arise when confirming facts of export of commodities in export operations; - on imposition of VAT payable by individuals when importing vehicles to the Republic of Armenia not for the purposes of entrepreneurial activity; - on amendments to the Protocol on information exchange in electronic form between the tax authorities of the EAEU Member States on indirect taxes paid since December 11, 2009. Timing for provision of information on indirect taxes will be changed from each decade to each week basis; In addition, for purposes of tax administration, it is expected to discuss the work on harmonization of the Draft Protocol on information exchange in electronic form between the tax authorities of the EAEU Member States, as well as the results of the analysis with regards to the compliance of the provisions of the tax legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic with the norms and provisions of the Treaty on the EAEU and Appendix No.18 thereto. Within the framework of international experience examination in tax issues in integration associations and with the purpose to eliminate the shortage of qualified personnel, it is expected to develop active cooperation with the leading educational institutions, in particular, with the Academy of Public Finance and the Institute for Austrian and International Law of the University of Vienna.