From April 24 to April 25, 2025, a meeting of the BRITACOM Council, a key platform for international tax cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, was held in Beijing (People's Republic of China) on the basis of the BRITA Beijing International Tax Training Center.
      The event was attended by representatives of more than 20 tax administrations, international organizations and the academic community. The meeting was opened by Mr. Wang Daoshu, Executive Secretary of the BRITACOM Secretariat and Deputy Chairman of the State Tax Administration of China. Mr. Benjamin Chan, Chairman of the BRITACOM Board and Commissioner of the Hong Kong (PRC) Tax Department, emphasized the importance of BRITACOM as a mechanism for strengthening global tax cooperation.
      Kazakhstan was represented at the event by the Acting Head of the divison of the Training and methodological center of the State revenue committee of the Ministry of finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kaliyev Zhunusbek. He made a report on the activities of the BRITA Astana for 2019-2025 and made proposals in the following areas:
     • Development of cooperation with other BRITA centers, including joint training events and lecturer exchanges;
     • Building effective communication networks to strengthen the links between the BRITA centers and the BRITACOM Secretariat.
      During the meeting, key topics such as digitalization of tax administration, development of services for taxpayers and further strengthening of the BRITACOM institutional base were discussed. Special attention was paid to presentations by participants from Algeria, Cameroon, Georgia, Nepal, Tajikistan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, China, Indonesia, Mongolia and other countries, as well as a presentation by the International Bureau of Tax Documentation (IBFD) on global practices.
      During the event, an application for observer status from the Federation of German Industry (BDI) was approved, highlighting BRITACOM's growing role on the international agenda.
     The meeting participants also visited the Yanqi Lake Conference Center and the First Chaoyang District Tax Office in Beijing, where they got acquainted with digital taxation practices and the e-invoicing system.
      At the end of the meeting, the upcoming BRITA Yangzhou training seminar on "Tax Administration and Digitalization" was announced, which will be held from May 18 to 24, 2025 in a mixed format. The Kazakh side is already preparing to participate in this seminar in an online format and provide translation for the Russian-speaking countries of the BRITACOM participants.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/kgd/press/news/details/989122?lang=kk