The following is excerpted from a 27 October 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.
At the invitation of the Head of Secretariat, Ms. Monica Bhatia, the Deputy Secretary General of the WCO, Sergio Mujica, attended the fifth meeting of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes held in Cape Town, South Africa from 26-27 of October 2012.
The Global Forum comprises 116 member jurisdictions and 12 international organizations as observers. Its mandate is to ensure that all jurisdictions adhere to the same high standard of international cooperation in tax matters.
This report is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wcoomd.org/reports/?v=1&lid=1&cid=2&id=415