ASIA OCEANIA TAX CONSULTANTS' ASSOCIATION
The Asia-Oceania Tax Consultants' Association - AOTCA - was established in 1992 by 10 tax professional organizations in the area and started its activities in 1993.
The Founding Members
The foundation of AOTCA was attributed to the existence of the Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE), the international organization for tax advisors in the European Communities with a long history of 49 years. Over the years tax professionals doing businesses in the Asian and Oceanic regions had been strongly conscious of the necessity that the same international professional body as CFE would exist in the area. On 6 November 1992 the inaugural meeting took place in Tokyo with the attendance of the representatives of each founding member organization from 8 countries and regions.
Since then, embracing new members year by year, AOTCA has grown to be with 20 national organizations including 2 associate members. The jurisdictions to which the AOTCA members belong count as many as 16 ; Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.
For further information on the member organizations, please see AOTCA members.
In 2002, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of its foundation, AOTCA organized the first International Convention in Kyoto, in which s0me 1000 persons domestic and overseas participated. The second International Convention was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in November 2007. With the main theme “Tax Challenges in a Globalized Environment”, the world-wide guest speakers delivered presentations on various current tax issues.
Another development of AOTCA in its history is the promotion of cooperative relationships with CFE and SGATAR (Study Group on Asian Tax Administration and Research), a forum for tax administration. Since 2005, AOTCA and those organizations send representatives to respective annual meeting on reciprocal basis for exchanging information. AOTCA is trying to enhance recognition of significant roles of tax professionals through these channels.
The purposes of AOTCA are:
In order to achieve the purposes AOTCA carries out various activities, major of which are as follows.
AOTCA convenes a general council meeting annually and a general meeting bi-annually in collaboration with a host organization. At the time of convening meetings, it holds technical sessions and discussions on local and international tax matters, investment, etc.
The AOTCA meetings have been held in the following cities:
The future meetings are scheduled in Shanghai, China in 2008 and in Mumbai, India in 2009.
AOTCA publishes two issues of its newsletter, “AOTCA Journal” and “Technical Reports” annually.
The AOTCA members are: 1) the organizations established in the Asian and Oceanic region; 2) the organizations which include tax professionals such as tax consultants, tax lawyers. etc.; 3) recognized as ones of good standing by general consensus or by domestic law in their own countries/regions.
Please see Article 5 of the Statutes for details.
| President | Secretary General | Secretariat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 - 1996 | Teruaki Kataoka | Norihisa Maeda | Japan Federation of Certified Public Tax Accountants' Associations |
| 1997 - 2000 | David Russell, QC | Peter Cowdroy Noel Rowland |
Taxation Institute of Australia |
| 2001 - 2004 | Koo, Jong-Tae | Lee, Yong-Ro Chang, Luck |
Korean Association of Certified Public Tax Accountants |
| 2005 - 2008 | Kinjiro Mori | Hirotaka Ishii | Japan Federation of Certified Public Tax Accountants' Associations |