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Dice – Digital Invoice Customs Exchange, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Goran Todorov
Dice – Digital Invoice Customs Exchange, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Goran Todorov
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A digital invoice customs exchange (DICE) is a technology-intensive tax compliance regimen for VAT/GST that utilizes invoice encryption to safeguard transactional data exchanged between seller and buyer in both domestic and import/export contexts while simultaneously notifying concerned jurisdictions of the transaction details.
DICE facilitates real-time VAT/GST enforcement as well as real-time commercial contract verification. It is a commercial invoice validation system that prevents tax evasion, most notably missing trader fraud and the non-declared import of trade-able services. DICE mimics the most effective administrative enforcement effort ever undertaken by the US IRS – the requirement to disclose the social security numbers …
Vat -- East African Community: The Tradable Services Problem World-Class Solution, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Goran Todorov
Vat -- East African Community: The Tradable Services Problem World-Class Solution, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Goran Todorov
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The value added taxes (VATs) of the East African Community (EAC) are open to manipulation and are leaking revenue from tradable services transactions. The EAC’s response has been to adopt a unique Reverse VAT mechanism. Something more is needed – a Digital Invoice Customs Exchange. Together these adjustments will provide a world-class solution to a world-wide problem. The EAC appears to be moving in this direction.
The vulnerability of the EAC VATs to tradable services is not surprising. The EAC borrowed VAT designs from the major VAT models, the EU VAT and the New Zealand Goods and Services Tax (NZ …
American Vat – The Carousel Fraud Threat: Will The Eu Show The Us The 'Way Forward', Richard Thompson Ainsworth
American Vat – The Carousel Fraud Threat: Will The Eu Show The Us The 'Way Forward', Richard Thompson Ainsworth
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On Thursday, March 29, 2007 the European Commission, Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, will host a one-day Conference on Fiscal Fraud – Tackling VAT Fraud: Possible Ways Forward. The conference is based on the Communication of May 31, 2006 explaining the need to develop a coordinated strategy to improve the fight against fiscal fraud. This paper indicates that the EU examination of carousel fraud points the way forward for advocates of a US VAT as well.
About 40% of EU VAT fraud appears to be 'missing trader intra-community' (MTIC) or carousel fraud. The best estimates of EU losses to …
Stopping Mtic -- With A 3rd Invoicing Directive, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Stopping Mtic -- With A 3rd Invoicing Directive, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
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A Third Invoicing Directive for the EU VAT seems to be a foregone conclusion. Corrections are needed in the Second Invoicing Directive. The hallmark of the next Directive will be its application of digital invoice technology. The Commission’s proposals will include adoption of tax-technology advances in invoice-control that are currently in use outside the EU. The next Invoicing Directive will require comprehensive e-invoicing, invoices that are digitally signed, and invoices that are fed into a system of relational databases that match transaction data across the Single Market. There will be real-time EU sales/purchases lists, and remote/real-time audit functionality.
This will …