On 5 June 2021, IKV Chairman Ayhan Zeytinoğlu attended the TOBB Turkey-EU Tax Cooperation Working Group Meeting. Chairing the meeting in his capacity as TOBB Vice President, IKV Chairman Zeytinoğlu pointed out that cooperation on tax and information sharing issues were constantly  brought to the agenda of the OECD and G20 while emphasizing the increasing importance attributed to those by the EU as indicated by the steps taken in recent years. Stating that the EU took certain measures against countries that did not sufficiently cooperate with the EU on tax matters, Zeytinoğlu outlined the steps Turkey should take in order to avoid being included in the EU’s so-called blacklist of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. Highlighting automatic exchange of information on taxation as the most crucial step, he said that Turkey was expected to commit to this issue. The meeting was also attended by the presidents of certain chambers and commodity exchanges under TOBB, TOBB officials, TEPAV Area Studies Program Director Prof. Güven Sak, researchers from TEPAV as well as IKV Secretary General Assoc. Prof. Çiğdem Nas and TOBB and IKV Brussels Representative Haluk Nuray on behalf of IKV.