Vapes: Emerging Challenges for Tax Administrations in Latin America
22 Dec 2025 | Press Releases
itsa | latin america | revenue | tax administration | tax stamps | vapes
The following was written by ITSA for the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT) and appeared on their website 9 December 2025. The vape market is booming, despite products being banned in most Latin American countries. This creates huge levels of illicit trade and enforcement challenges. Balanced regulation – taxation, …
ITSA Webinar: The Canada Excise Stamp Journey
16 Dec 2025 | Press Releases
canada | itsa | revenue | security features | tax stamps | webinar
This webinar took place on 22 October 2025, and was previously only available to ITSA members. It is now publicly available and can be viewed at this link. About This Webinar For this webinar, the International Tax Stamp Association was delighted to welcome Linda Desrochers, Director General of the Excise …
ITSA Webinar: Tax Stamp and Traceability Systems on Excisable Products: What Works, What Fails, What’s Ahead
11 Dec 2025 | Press Releases
authentication | illicit trade | itsa | revenue | security features | tax stamps | track and trace | webinar
This webinar took place on 24 September 2025, and was previously only available to ITSA members. It is now publicly available and can be viewed at this link. About This Webinar As an increasing number of governments move toward implementing track and trace systems to control their excisable goods supply …
ITSA Raises Concern Over Weakened DPP Provisions
11 Nov 2025 | Press Releases
authentication | counterfeiting | dpp | itsa | standard | tax
This summer, the draft versions of several European standards for digital product passports (DPPs) were published for public review and enquiry. One of these drafts – prEN 18246:2025 – covers the authentication, reliability and integrity of DPP data, with the aim of minimising product fraud and counterfeiting. However, for a …
Interview with Incoming ITSA Chair Tim McIntyre
13 May 2025 | Press Releases
This month, we sat down with the new Chair of the International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA), Tim McIntyre of Canadian Bank Note Company Limited, to discuss his background, his thoughts on the industry and how he plans to support an evolution of ITSA to take a more agile and proactive …
Innovation in Tax Stamps – Physical and Digital Aspects
2 May 2025 | Presentations
Presentation given by Dr Marietta Ulrich-Horn at Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum held in Cape Town, April 2025 Click here to view the video.
Securing the Future: Why Physical Features Matter in the Digital Age
2 May 2025 | Presentations
ITSA seminar at Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum in Cape Town, April 2025 ITSA Seminar At TSTF Cape Town 2025
ITSA Appoints New Chairman as it Celebrates 10th Anniversary
29 Apr 2025 | Press Releases
Following its 7th Annual General Meeting, held in April 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa – on the occasion of the Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum™ – the International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA) is pleased to announce the appointment of a new chairman, and the re-election of two directors, as …
ITSA Selected as Liaison Organisation to EU Standards Body
3 Feb 2025 | Press Releases
In the February 2024 issue of Tax Stamp & Traceability News™, we described how the International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA) had submitted recommendations1 for a secure and interoperable implementation of the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) to the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation …
LatAm Tax Authorities Share Updates at ITSA Event
4 Dec 2024 | Press Releases
In October, 40 participants turned up for the latest International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA) webinar, which was in Spanish only and directed towards tax and customs authorities across Latin America. The webinar provided updates on information presented at ITSA’s in-person seminar in June, in Santiago, Chile, and allowed those authorities …