India Branch of International Fiscal Association, is honoured to host the joint meeting of IFA USA and India Branches and the International Tax Conference on January 23-25, 2006 at New Delhi, India, focussing on cross-border investment, trade and services. IFA India branch acknowledge the initiative for this meet, taken by the IFA USA Branch.

The conference is open to IFA members and non-members. For those, who are not presently members of IFA, we may say that International Fiscal Association is the only world-wide representative body of tax professionals, corporate finance and tax managers, tax administrators and fiscal academicians. Its headquarters are at Rotterdam, Netherlands. India hosted 51^st World Congress of IFA in India in 1997, which was attended by nearly 1500 delegates from all over the world, including 30 heads of Revenue from different countries. The US and Indian Revenue Service are members of IFA and will actively participate in the meet.

The papers relating to scientific agenda of the conference, programme highlights and social programmes, registration form, are in the accompanying pages.

It will be a great opportunity and unique platform for tax professionals from India and abroad to share their experiences and learning.