The Asia-Oceania Tax Consultants' Association - AOTCA - was established in 1992 by 10 tax professional organizations in the area and started its activities in 1993.

The foundation of AOTCA was attributed to the existence of the Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE), the international organization for tax advisors in the European Communities with a long history of 49 years. Over the years tax professionals doing businesses in the Asian and Oceanic regions had been strongly conscious of the necessity that the same international professional body as CFE would exist in the area. On 6 November 1992 the inaugural meeting took place in Tokyo with the attendance of the representatives of each founding member organization from 8 countries and regions.

Since then, embracing new members year by year, AOTCA has grown to be with 20 national organizations including 2 associate members. The jurisdictions to which the AOTCA members belong count as many as 16 ; Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.

For further information on the member organizations, please see AOTCA members.

Purposes

The purposes of AOTCA are:

1. to promote mutual understanding and cooperation among the organizations;

2. to contribute to the expansion of the component members' businesses related to taxation and its related areas; and

3.  to promote friendship among the members.

Activities

In order to achieve the purposes AOTCA carries out various activities, major of which are as follows.

AOTCA convenes a general council meeting annually and a general meeting bi-annually in collaboration with a host organization. At the time of convening meetings, it holds technical sessions and discussions on local and international tax matters, investment, etc.

Membership

The AOTCA members are: 1) the organizations established in the Asian and Oceanic region; 2) the organizations which include tax professionals such as tax consultants, tax lawyers. etc.; 3) recognized as ones of good standing by general consensus or by domestic law in their own countries/regions.
Please see Article 5 of the Statutes for details.

Officers

President / Gil Levy
Vice Presidents / Representative of each member organization
Deputy President / Thomas Lee
Secretary General / Hirotaka Ishii
Auditors / Younus Rizwani, Harphal Singh Dhillon  
Honorary Advisors / Teruaki Kataoka, Bang Hyo-sun, David Russell,
                                Rehan Hasan Naqvi, Koo Jong-Tae, Chang Luck,
                               Ahmad Mustapha Ghazali
Advisor /  Michael Dirkis

* AOTCA publishes two issues of its newsletter, “AOTCA Journal” and “Technical Reports” annually.