In September 2007 Budapest hosted the event, in the magnificent Parliament building. Previous meetings took place in Paris (2003), Dublin (2004), twice in Rome (2005, 2006), and in Madrid (2008). Next year Estonia will be the host, and in 2011 the Netherlands will provide the location for the forum.

The main topic of this year’s meeting was to review possible tax administration answers to the global financial and economic crisis. Short term administrative steps were presented by Spain, Sweden, Austria and Finland.

Leaders of tax administrations of six member states presented the developments of their recent activities (Estonia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Poland and Hungary) on the conference. The framework of the presentation of Mr. János SZIKORA, President of APEH, is outlined in the following PowerPoint material.