USCIB and the National Foreign Trade Council organized an all-day conference in Washington on November 5 to examine the OECD’s growing role in international taxation policies, and how business can make its views known to the 30-nation organization. The event brought together high-level officials from the U.S. government and the OECD's Center for Tax Policy and Administration to discuss tax issues arising from the evolution of the digital economy, the clarification of the “permanent establishment” concept, transfer pricing and the OECD’s model tax convention. Speakers included Michael H. Jordan, CEO of EDS, OECD Deputy Secretary General Richard Hecklinger, Under Secretary of Commerce Philip J. Bond and Richard M. Hammer, USCIB’s international tax counsel.