7th Belt and Road tax administration forum closes in Jakarta with six outcomes on digitalisation

The 7th Belt and Road Tax Administration Cooperation Forum closed in Jakarta, Indonesia on Oct 15. Over three days it drew more than 300 people, among them tax administration heads from nearly 40 countries and regions, eight international organisations and representatives of Chinese and foreign multinationals, under the theme of digital governance and shared tax benefits. Cai Zili, deputy administrator of China's State Taxation Administration, told the forum that digital economy and artificial intelligence are advancing so fast that every country faces new tax governance questions; China's tax authority has built a digital capability training system spanning training audiences, knowledge frameworks, course resources, teaching methods and application of results, and has trained more than 1,400 foreign tax officials through its two Belt and Road tax academies in Beijing and Yangzhou. Six outcomes were released: a joint statement, version 2.0 of the tax administration product system and of the taxpayer service product system, a collection of 20 supporting products, academy courses with added French and Portuguese subtitles, and the 2026 annual report. The 8th forum will be held in Tajikistan.