 The Executive Council of the Caribbean Organization of Tax Administrators, COTA, met in St. Lucia to discuss plans for the annual General Assembly and Technical Conference, scheduled for July 2024. Evelyn Wayne, Director for Economic Policy and Development at the Caricum Secretariat, and Executive Secretary of COTA, said issues and solutions relating to the impact of the international tax agenda on Caribbean jurisdictions will feature at the conference. COTA is a regional organization whose membership comprises 20 tax administrations from Caricum Member States, with St. Martin being the only observer within the grouping. The purpose of COTA is to improve the efficiency of tax administrators within the community. At this point in time when Member States are encountering considerable problems with fiscal space, the issue of revenue generation is high on our agenda. So our role is to collaborate and cooperate with each other to ensure that we share our experiences and for the betterment of tax administration in general within the community. The aim of the recent Executive Meeting in St. Lucia was to discuss COTA's strategic priorities and work program for 2024, in addition to planning the annual General Assembly. Sheenel Andrews is the President of COTA's Executive Council and Deputy Commissioner of Revenue for the Turks and Caicos Islands. Each country would have to implement their own individual measures outside of the tax administration, but of course revenue is key to any country. The more revenue we collect, the better government would be able to provide services to the people of that specific country. So once we can discuss ways that we can effectively and in an efficient manner implement revenue measures that can better enable the collection process for the country as well as do not put a burden on the taxpayers. Marcia Vite, Comptroller of the Inland Revenue Department in St. Lucia, is pleased that St. Lucia will host COTA's annual General Assembly in July 2024. Countries would volunteer to host the meeting. It's always good when you can be host, you can throw off your island and you get the opportunity to invite some of your other teammates to the meeting to listen to all of the discussions. At these meetings you will get more controllers and more heads of departments and so coming in making their contributions at that meeting, supervisors and so. So it will be at that level with a lot of speakers coming on and speakers will range around the world. Whether it be you and speakers or ECD but more on carbion and the carbion experience. The Executive Council meeting was held at the Finance Administrative Centre in Point Seraphine, Cass Trees. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, Glenn Simon reporting.