Good morning. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the thirteenth IMF-Japan High-Level Tax Conference for Asian Countries. I would like to thank the Ministry of Finance for co-hosting this event and the government of Japan for their generous support. I am also grateful to my colleagues in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department and the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific for their help organizing this event. This is the first year since the COVID-19 pandemic that we have held the conference fully in person. Since then, the global economy has shown surprising resilience to successive shocks. As you have seen in ... (full story)