Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum 2025 – The Programme So Far

The programme for this year’s Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum (from 7-9 April in Cape Town, South Africa) is shaping up nicely, with some important themes on the agenda. This article describes some of these themes, which will be presented as workshops, standalone papers or panel discussions.

Putting the new tax stamp standard into practice

We’ll kick things off with a roundtable workshop on 7 April focusing on the revised ISO tax stamp standard – which will be almost ready for publication – and its implications for revenue authorities and solution providers.

The standard (full title: ISO 22382:2018 – Guidelines for the content, security, issuance and examination of excise tax stamps) was originally published in 2018.

It is ISO practice to review standards every five years, and when 22382 was reviewed in 2023 it was agreed that a) it was a valuable standard, but b) it needed updating.

The result of this review is a standard that is shorter and less technical than the original version, making it more approachable for tax authority personnel.