I WAS invited by the Tax Accountancy Association Union of Chinese Taipei (Taauct) to speak during its Corporate Integrity and Sustainable Development Asia Regional Seminar recently held in Taiwan. Deputy ministers from the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Justice were guest speakers, and other speakers included officers of the Asia-Oceania Tax Consultants Association and of the Tax Institute of Hong Kong. Around 200 participants attended the seminar.

Corruption perception index Taiwan ranked 25th in Transparency International's 2022 corruption perceptions index (CPI), while Hong Kong ranked 12th. The Philippines ranked 116th. The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, scoring on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).