Tunisia signs multilateral country-by-country reporting agreement

Tunisia on November 27 signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement for Country-by-Country Reporting, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD announced. The multilateral agreement provides a standardized mechanism for exchanging country tax administrations annual information about large multinational groups. The information details the multinational group activities and income for each tax jurisdiction in which they do business. The reports should make it easier for tax authorities to detect MNE tax avoidance through transfer pricing and other means. The plan to exchange country-by-country reports was agreed to by nations in 2015 as a…

4th edition of Kairouan Festival of Arab Poetry

Minister of Cultural Affairs Mohamed Zine El Abidine will chair the opening of the 4th edition of the Kairouan Festival of Arab Poetry, which will run until December 7, 2019 with the participation of Tunisian poets and guests from Libya, Algeria, Syria and Mauritania, will be held on Thursday morning December 5, 2019 at the Arts Palace in Bardo, Tunis. The opening ceremony will also be attended by an important delegation from Sharjah, comprising Abdullah Mohammed Al Owais, Head of Culture and Information Department, Mohammed Ibrahim Al Qaseer, Director of…