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Harm Jan van Burg is senior policy-maker of the Directorate General of the Tax and Customs Administration, part of the Netherlands’ Ministry of Finance.
He is currently the programme director for the Netherlands’ Standard Business Reporting Programme – a Netherlands government initiative to reduce administrative burdens. The SBR programme is also one of the programmes of “renewal of Government services” in The Netherlands.
With a degree in social sciences and having previously worked for the Dutch Post and Telecommunications, Harm Jan has been active in various roles across the Dutch Civil Service since 1983, linked mostly with corporate communications and electronic filing. He was responsible for the pioneering videotext services and the first tax administration website. He was involved in developing electronic tax filing from 1996 onwards and from 2003 till 2009 vice-chair of the intergovernmental management team for the co-ordination of e-government development in the Netherlands.
Other examples of his work areas include customs communications, chain management for tax form production and distribution, innovation and development of E-tax services.
Worldwide tax administrations are actively interested in open standards for tax interoperability. The OECD Forum on Tax Administrations (along with OASIS – the world standards organisation for e-commerce) took the initiative to form the tax-XML technical committee. Since 2003, several tax administrations, together with major software vendors and accountancy firms, have joined this committee. Harm Jan has been the promoter and chair of this committee from the outset in 2003 till it finalised its business in 2009. He was awarded the Dutch XML award for his efforts. During this time he was also chair of OASIS- E-gov for two years and presently member of the Netherlands delegation in UNCEFACT
Convinced of the added value of standardisation, focusing on increasing the efficiency and transparency in financial reporting processes between businesses and government, Harm Jan was the initiator of the Netherlands Taxonomy Project (awarded the Netherlands innovation award in 2006) – which now is proceeding as the Standard Business Reporting Programme.
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