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Dear maria CHADZIDAKIS VAVOURANAKIS, Below are the news items published today on the WTO public website.

NEWS ITEM Agriculture negotiations chair says progress on new draft text depends on WTO members Progress in the agriculture negotiations depends on the willingness of WTO members to achieve it, the chair of the negotiations said at a meeting on 7-8 September. The informal meeting of the Committee on Agriculture in Special Session was the first opportunity for members to discuss a new draft negotiation text introduced by the chair on 29 July, with a view to facilitating consensus among members ahead of the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) on 30 November — 3 December. News item   ⟶

NEWS ITEM WTO announces winners of 2021 Essay Award for Young Economists The winners of the 2021 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists are Tomas Dominguez-Iino of New York University and Swapnika Rachapalli of the University of Toronto, who were ranked in equal first place by the Selection Panel. They will share the prize of CHF 5,000. The winners were announced at a ceremony in Ghent, Belgium, on 9 September. News item   ⟶

ΠΟΙΜΑΝΤΟΡΙΚΗ ΕΓΚΥΚΛΙΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΝΕΑ ΣΧΟΛΙΚΗ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ

ΠΟΙΜΑΝΤΟΡΙΚΗ ΕΓΚΥΚΛΙΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΝΕΑ ΣΧΟΛΙΚΗ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ
Δευτέρα, 13 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021 13:48 

Ἑνώσαμε σήμερα τίς εὐχές καί τίς προσευχές μας πρός τόν Θεό καί πρός τήν Ὑπεραγία Θεοτόκο γιά νά χαρίσει καί στούς μαθητές καί τίς μαθήτριες μας ἀλλά καί στούς ἐκπαιδευτικούς μας μιά καλή καί εὐλογημένη σχολική χρονιά.

Ὅλοι γνωρίζουμε τίς δυσκολίες καί τά προβλήματα πού ἀντιμετώπισαν καί τά σχολεῖα καί τά παιδιά καί οἱ ἐκπαιδευτικοί μας τά δύο προηγούμενα χρόνια, πόσο ἔλειψε σέ ὅλους τό σχολικό περιβάλλον, ἡ διδασκαλία μέ φυσική παρουσία, ἡ χαρούμενη συναναστροφή! Γι᾽ αὐτό καί ἰδιαιτέρως παρακαλέσαμε σήμερα τόν Θεό νά δώσει, ὥστε, παρά τό γεγονός ὅτι ἡ πανδημία δέν ἔχει ἐκλείψει, τό νέο σχολικό ἔτος νά εἶναι καλύτερο γιά ὅλους σας, χωρίς προβλήματα, χωρίς τόν φόβο πού δημιουργεῖ αὐτή ἡ ἀσθένεια καί χωρίς τίς δυσάρεστες συνέπειες πού προκαλεῖ.

Παρακαλέσαμε σήμερα τόν Θεό καί τήν Παναγία μας νά σκέπουν καί νά προστατεύουν τόν καθένα ἀπό σᾶς, νά σᾶς σκέπει καί νά σᾶς προστατεύει ὁ φύλακας ἄγγελός σας. Καί σᾶς παρακαλῶ ὅλους, νά μήν ξεχνᾶτε νά τό ζητᾶτε καί σεῖς αὐτό καθημερινά, καί γιά σᾶς καί γιά τούς συμμαθητές καί τίςσυμμαθήτριές σας ἀλλά καί γιά τούς δασκάλους, τούς καθηγητές καί τίς καθηγήτριές σας, παίρνοντας φυσικά καί σεῖς ὅλα τά μέτρα πού ὑποδεικνύουν οἱ ὑπεύθυνοι γιά τήν προστασία σας ἀπό τήν ἐπιδημία.

Ἡ τήρηση τῶν μέτρων αὐτῶν εἶναι ἐκτός τῶν ἄλλων καίμία ἄσκηση πειθαρχίας, ἀπαραίτητη γιά τήν ὑγεία καί τήν ἀσφάλεια τόσο τή δική σας ὅσο καί τῶν φίλων σας καί τῆς οἰκογενείας σας.Εἶναι ὅμως ἡ πειθαρχία ἀπαραίτητη καί γιά τή μόρφωσή σας καί γιά τή διαμόρφωση τοῦ χαρακτήρα σας καί πολύτιμη γιά τό μέλλον σας.

Ἀξιοποιεῖστε, λοιπόν, καί αὐτήν τήν εὐκαιρία, ὅπως καί ὅλες τίς πολλές εὐκαιρίες πού σᾶς προσφέρει τό σχολεῖο καί οἱ καθηγητές καί οἱ δάσκαλοί σαςμέ πολλή ἀγάπη, ἔχοντας πάντοτε στόν νοῦ σας πόσο εὐγνώμονες πρέπει νά εἴμαστε στούς πατέρες μας,οἱ ὁποῖοι πρίν ἀπό 200 χρόνια ξεσηκώθηκαν καί ἀγωνίσθηκαν γιά νά χαρίσουν σέ μᾶς τήν ἐλευθερία πού ἐκεῖνοι δέν γνώρισαν, ἀλλάκαί πόσο προνομιοῦχοι εἶστε ἐσεῖς, πού μπορεῖτε νά ἔχετε σχολεῖα καί νά φοιτᾶτε σ᾽ αὐτά ἐλεύθερα, σέ σύγκριση μέ τά Ἑλληνόπουλα,τά ὁποῖα μεγάλωναν τότε μέσα στή σκλαβιά, μέσα στήν Τουρκοκρατία, χωρίς σχεδόν σχολεῖα.Καί ὅμως κατόρθωσαν νά διατηρήσουν τήν ἑλληνική γλώσσα καί νά μήν ξεχάσουν οὔτε τήν ἱστορία τοῦ Γένους μας οὔτε τήν πίστη στόν Χριστό. Καί αὐτά τά τρία ἦταν πού τούς κράτησαν καί τούς ἔδωσαν τή δύναμη νά ἐπαναστατήσουν τό 1821 καί νά ἐλευθερώσουν τήν πατρίδα μας, ὥστε νά τούς τιμοῦμε φέτος ὄχι μόνο ἐμεῖς οἱ Ἕλληνες ἀλλά καί ὅλος ὁ κόσμος.

Μέ αὐτές τίς σκέψεις σᾶς εὔχομαι πατρικά καί μέ πολλή ἀγάπη ὁ Θεός νά σᾶς χαρίσει πλούσια τήν εὐλογία καί τόν φωτισμό του στή νέα χρονιά, στήν ὁποία θά σᾶς συνοδεύουν οἱ εὐχές καί οἱ προσευχές τοῦ Ἐπισκόπου σας, ὁ ὁποῖος στέκεται πάντοτε δίπλα σας μέ πολύ ἐνδιαφέρον καί πολλή στοργή.

Καλή καί εὐλογημένη ἡ νέα σχολική χρονιά!

Μέ πολλή πατρική ἀγάπη καί εὐχές

Ὁ Μητροπολίτης

† Ὁ Βεροίας, Ναούσης καὶ Καμπανίας Παντελεήμων

O ΚΥΚΛΟΣ ΙΔΕΩΝ διοργανώνει Eτήσιο Συνέδριο «Η Ελλάδα Μετά V»

Η Ελλάδα Μετά V

Από την κρίση στην κανονικότητα ή η κρίση ως κανονικότητα ;

Για πέμπτη χρονιά ο ΚΥΚΛΟΣ ΙΔΕΩΝ διοργανώνει, σε συνεργασία με τη ΣΥΜΕΩΝ Γ. ΤΣΟΜΩΚΟΣ ΑΕ, το ετήσιο συνέδριό του με γενικό θέμα «Η Ελλάδα Μετά». Το συνέδριο «Η Ελλάδα Μετά V» θα διεξαχθεί στις 11-12 Οκτωβρίου 2021 με κεντρικό θέμα το ερώτημα: Από την κρίση στην κανονικότητα ή η κρίση ως κανονικότητα;


Η πρώτη ενότητα είναι αφιερωμένη στη θέση της Ελλάδας απέναντι στα νέα μεγάλα διακυβεύματα που επηρεάζουν καταλυτικά κάθε συζήτηση για το μέλλον: κλιματική αλλαγή, τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, ο κίνδυνος μιας διαρκούς υγειονομικής κρίσης.


Η δεύτερη ενότητα έχει ως αντικείμενο το στοίχημα της συμπεριληπτικότητας τώρα που η ελληνική οικονομία βρίσκεται μεταξύ κρίσης, ανάκαμψης, νέων ανισοτήτων και μετασχηματισμού. Από αυτήν την οπτική γωνία θα συζητηθούν το σχέδιο αξιοποίησης των ευρωπαϊκών πόρων ( όχι μόνο του Ταμείου Ανάκαμψης, αλλά και του νέου ΕΣΠΑ και της νέας ΚΑΠ), το δημοσιονομικό και χρηματοοικονομικό πλαίσιο, ο τρόπος με τον οποίο προσλαμβάνουν τις νέες ευκαιρίες αφενός μεν οι μεγάλες ανταγωνιστικές επιχειρήσεις, αφετέρου δε οι μεσαίες, μικρές και πολύ μικρές επιχειρήσεις τόσο στους παραδοσιακούς κλάδους όσο και στους κλάδους των νέων τεχνολογιών.



Η τρίτη ενότητα έχει ως αντικείμενο τη στρατηγική ανασυγκρότηση της Δύσης μετά την αποχώρηση των ΗΠΑ από το Αφγανιστάν και εστιάζει στον ρόλο του ΝΑΤΟ και στις επιπτώσεις στον χώρο της Μεσογείου και των Βαλκανίων. Θα προσπαθήσει να τοποθετήσει τα μεγάλα ζητήματα της ελληνικής εξωτερικής πολιτικής και πολιτικής ασφάλειας στο πλαίσιο αυτό.



Η τέταρτη ενότητα αναφέρεται στα νέα διλήμματα ενώπιον των οποίων βρίσκεται η ΕΕ και προσπαθεί να αναδείξει το άμεσο / πρακτικό ενδιαφέρον που έχει για την Ελλάδα η συζήτηση για το μέλλον της Ευρώπης που έχει ήδη αρχίσει θεσμικά.



Η πέμπτη ενότητα είναι στραμμένη στο κοινωνικό και πολιτικό πλαίσιο. Συζητά τις αλλαγές που επήλθαν στην κοινωνική διαστρωμάτωση, την αντιπροσωπευτικότητα και την ανθεκτικότητα του πολιτικού συστήματος, την επίδραση αφενός μεν νέων, πιο αυστηρών, εκδοχών «πολιτικής ορθότητας», αφετέρου δε νέων, πιο επιθετικών, μορφών ανορθολογισμού. Αφετηρία της συζήτησης είναι σχετική έρευνα της κοινής γνώμης .



Το συνέδριο θα πραγματοποιηθεί, ανάλογα με την εξέλιξη των υγειονομικών δεδομένων, είτε με φυσική παρουσία με επίκεντρο το Μουσείο Μπενάκη (οδός Πειραιώς 138), είτε υβριδικά με την αξιοποίηση των δυνατοτήτων του Διαδικτύου.

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Carbon pricing shows serious promise as a tool in the fight against climate change //

Dear maria, Carbon pricing is a key element in the fight against climate change. In our latest issue on climate, produced in partnership with COP26, the IMF's Ian Parry explains why and lays out five things to know about carbon pricing. Read the full article below, on the web, or download the PDF. Deterring the use of fossil fuels, such as coal, fuel oil, and gasoline, is crucial to reducing the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon pricing provides across-the-board incentives to reduce energy use and shift to cleaner fuels and is an essential price signal for redirecting new investment to clean technologies. Here are five things to know about carbon pricing. 1. Carbon pricing can be readily implemented. Carbon pricing, implemented through a tax on the carbon content of fossil fuels or on their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, is straightforward to administer as an extension of existing fuel taxes. Carbon taxes can provide certainty about future emissions prices, which makes a difference when it comes to mobilizing clean technology investment. Revenue from carbon taxes can be used to lower burdensome taxes on workers and businesses or to fund investment in climate technology. Carbon pricing can also be implemented through emissions trading systems—firms must acquire allowances for each ton of greenhouse gases they emit, with the supply of such permits limited by government. Businesses can buy and sell allowances, thus establishing a price for emissions. Emissions trading programs can be designed to mimic the advantages of taxes through price-stabilizing mechanisms like price floors and revenue-raising measures such as permit auctions. 2. Carbon pricing is gaining momentum. More than 60 carbon tax and emissions trading programs have been introduced at the regional, national, and subnational levels. In recent months major pricing initiatives have been launched in China and Germany, the emissions price in the European Union has risen above €50 a ton, and Canada announced its emissions price would rise to CAN$170 a ton by 2030. Nonetheless, only about one-fifth of global emissions are covered by pricing programs, and the global average price is only $3 a ton. That’s a far cry from the global carbon price of about $75 a ton needed to reduce emissions enough to keep global warming below 2°C. 3. Carbon pricing should be part of a comprehensive mitigation strategy. This strategy should contain supporting measures to enhance its effectiveness and acceptability. The incentives generated by carbon pricing can be reinforced with regulations on emission rates or feebates, whose fees and rebates for products (for example, vehicles, appliances) or firms (for example, power generators, steel producers) depend on the intensity of their emissions. These reinforcing instruments have a narrower impact than carbon pricing—for example, they do not encourage people to drive less—but they may be an easier sell politically because they avoid a significant increase in energy prices. Using carbon pricing revenues to boost the economy and counteract economic harm caused by higher fuel prices can build support for the strategy. Just transition measures are needed to assist low-income households and vulnerable workers and regions; for example, through stronger social safety nets and retraining. These measures would require only a minor portion of carbon pricing revenues. Public investment is needed for the clean technology infrastructure networks the private sector may not provide, like electric vehicle charging stations and power grid extensions to accommodate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. And carbon pricing must eventually be extended to other sectors, like forestry and agriculture. 4. Carbon pricing must be coordinated internationally through a carbon price floor. Aggressively scaling up carbon pricing remains difficult when countries are acting unilaterally because they fear for their industrial competitiveness and are uncertain about specific policy actions in other countries. The IMF staff has therefore proposed an international carbon price floor to complement and reinforce the Paris Agreement, with two key components. First, to facilitate negotiation, the price floor should focus on the small number of countries responsible for the majority of global emissions. For example, an arrangement among China, the European Union, India, and the United States would cover 64 percent of future global CO₂ emissions. An agreement among the Group of Twenty (G20) large economies would cover 85 percent of emissions. Second, the price floor should focus on a minimum carbon price each country must implement, an efficient and easily understood parameter. If major emitting countries were to simultaneously scale up carbon pricing this would be the most effective way to address concerns about competitiveness and uncertainty about policy in other countries. Countries would still have the flexibility to set a higher price than the minimum if this is needed to achieve their mitigation pledges under the Paris Agreement. The price floor must, however, be based on pragmatic design. Developing economies could have lower price floors and simple mechanisms for financial and technological support. In addition, the price floor could be designed flexibly to accommodate countries where carbon pricing is a political hard sell, so long as other policies achieve the same emissions reductions. An international carbon price floor can be strikingly effective. A 2030 price floor of $75 a ton for advanced economies, $50 for high-income emerging market economies such as China, and $25 for lower-income emerging markets such as India would keep warming below 2°C with just six participants (Canada, China, European Union, India, United Kingdom, United States) and other G20 countries meeting their Paris pledges. 5. A pragmatically designed price floor is more promising than other regimes. An alternative regime might require all participants to impose the same carbon price. This approach, however, does not allow questions of equity to be addressed through differentiated floors, and it does not accommodate countries where carbon pricing is difficult for domestic political or other reasons. Another possibility is a regime in which participants agree on annual, and progressively tightening, emissions targets. This approach involves agreement on a larger number of parameters, however. And it is a zero-sum game: if one country pushes for a laxer target, others would need more stringent targets. It also leaves uncertainty about what policy actions each country would take. Without an international carbon price floor or similar arrangement, countries will likely act on their own to impose tariffs on carbon-intensive imported goods—so-called border carbon adjustments. The European Union announced such a proposal in July 2021, and others are considering this approach. From the perspective of scaling up global mitigation, this regime would be far less effective than an international carbon price floor, however. This is because border carbon adjustments would price only emissions embodied in traded products and not the huge bulk of nontraded emissions (for example, from power generators, manufacturers selling domestically, buildings, and transportation). Adam Behsudi Senior Editor F&D abehsudi@IMF.org   P.S. Don't forget to visit the F&D website to read all the articles in our latest issue.

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International Monetary Fund:New Blog, How to Tax in Asia's Digital Age

 

Dear maria, We just published a new blog—please find the full text below. Translations coming soon. Programming note: Tune in to the IMF's virtual conference related to this blog on "Taxation and Digitalization in Asia" starting today, Sept. 14 at 8 am ET. How to Tax in Asia's Digital Age     By Era Dabla-Norris, Ruud De Mooij, Andrew Hodge, and Dinar Prihardini   New global reforms will change where tech giants pay taxes in Asia and make the international tax system more robust. Digitalization—the technology that powers fintech, e-commerce, and online services—enables us to make mobile money transfers, purchase goods and services online, and interact with people across the globe. It has created some of the largest global businesses, such as online platforms and marketplaces connecting producers and consumers across the world. Asia alone has roughly two billion internet users, with considerable room to grow. Asia’s advanced and emerging market economies have several locally headquartered tech giants—including Alibaba, JD.com, Tencent, Rakuten—and host foreign tech giants such as Facebook. A new set of agreed global tax reforms will change where these tech giants and other global giants pay taxes. Thus far, it’s been challenging for many Asian countries to tax tech giants especially because many are not physically but rather only digitally present in a country. Existing international norms for taxing profits, which many people consider to be outdated and unfair, haven’t kept up. Collecting taxes on cross-border digital services and small parcel e-commerce deliveries is also a challenge. Changes afoot Some Asian countries have started to introduce digital services taxes—withholding taxes on payments for cross-border digital services or user-based turnover taxes on digital activities. These, however, may become redundant if a new global system for profit taxation is adopted. As of August 2021, the United States and most major Asian economies were among the 134 members of the Inclusive Framework led by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD-IF), agreeing to allocate taxing rights on profits to countries where consumers and users are located, reflecting the digital presence. Details are still under discussion, but under the agreed global reforms, a portion of profits from multinationals with global sales above EUR20 billion (roughly the 100 largest global companies) will be allocated across countries in proportion to local sales and taxed under local laws. In a new IMF staff paper, we survey the digital landscape in Asia and the effect of proposals, such as that from the OECD-IF, on corporate tax revenue across Asian countries. We also outline the pros and cons of digital services taxes and estimate their revenue potential. Finally, we calculate the potential additional revenue gains from collecting value-added tax on digital services and cross-border e‑commerce sales of goods. Investment hubs such as Singapore and Hong Kong SAR could lose up to 0.15 percent of GDP in corporate tax revenue because the profits currently declared in these countries by multinationals exceed the local share of total sales. Whereas high-income countries with large domestic markets—Australia, China, Japan, Korea—would gain revenue, developing countries such as Vietnam could lose revenue. The agreed changes could spur more comprehensive reforms applied to all companies and to a larger share of profits. That would cause a much larger reallocation of tax revenue across countries, with the largest losses expected for investment hubs in Asia and expected gains for several developing economies. Digital services taxes—although easier to implement—don’t raise much revenue and have other drawbacks. A digital services tax similar to India’s Equalization Levy would have yielded only 0.02 percent of GDP in 2019 for Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. But digital services taxes can distort business decisions and still be vulnerable to tax avoidance. They can also complicate trade relations, because they are usually applied only to large firms headquartered abroad. Value-added taxes and digitalization More than half of all services trade in Asia is digitally delivered, making it hard to collect value-added taxes when these services cross borders. Cross-border e-commerce sales of goods have also been exempt from value-added taxes when shipped internationally in small parcels. Resolving these challenges pays off. Requiring nonresident suppliers of digital services and e‑commerce marketplaces to register with local tax authorities and remit value-added taxes on their sales could raise revenue between 0.04 and 0.11 percent of GDP in some countries in Asia, translating to an additional $166 million in Bangladesh, $4.8 billion in India, $1.1 billion in Indonesia, $365 million in the Philippines, and $264 million in Vietnam.  The road ahead As Asian consumers and businesses increase their online activity in the coming years, tech giants will expand further into Asian countries, making taxation in a digitalizing economy even more important. Countries in Asia, in particular, can invest in ways to harness digitalization for tax administration helping to reduce tax evasion, boost revenue mobilization, and make tax collection more efficient. With countries further shaping the agreement in the OECD-led IF, the fundamental reforms that lie ahead may make the international tax system more robust for the digital age. ***** Era Dabla-Norris is a division chief in the IMF’s Asia Pacific Department and mission chief for Vietnam. Ruud De Mooij is an advisor in the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department. Andrew Hodge is an economist in the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department. Dinar Prihardini is an economist in the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department. Glenn Gottselig Blog Editor IMF Weekend Read ggottselig@IMF.org   Thank you again for your interest in IMF Blog. Read more of our latest content here.

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