Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum Heads to Cape Town

The programme for this year’s Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum™ (from 7-9 April in Cape Town, South Africa) has been released, 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.

The objective of the Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum is to bring together government excise and customs agencies, investigators and law enforcement, regulators, excisable product manufacturers and distributors, security printers, supply chain specialists and integrators, suppliers of authentication and serialisation technologies, and systems integrators, to hear about and discuss the latest developments in tax stamp and traceability systems.

To kick off this year’s event, a workshop will be held on 7 April focusing on the revised ISO tax stamp standard 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.