Supporting Global Standards: How IVIX Empowers OECD Tax Crime Enforcement

On June 16, 2025, the OECD Task Force on Tax Crimes and Other Financial Crimes (TFTC) released a comprehensive Tax Crime Investigation Manual (TCIM) aimed at strengthening global efforts to combat tax crime. This manual was designed to:

·      Serve as a guiding framework to streamline investigative processes, enhancing both the quality and speed of investigations;

·      Provide clear protocols and procedures to ensure timely resolution by minimizing delays due to uncertainty or indecision;

·      Offer quick, easy access to legal and operational frameworks, ensuring enforcement actions comply with criminal procedures and safeguard the rights of suspects;

·      Define institutional arrangements in one place, enabling more effective allocation of human, financial, and technology resources;

·      Offer guidance on leveraging technological tools to expand officers’ investigative capacity; and

·      Support the integration of global best practices into domestic enforcement frameworks, bolstering efforts at the domestic, regional, and international levels.

At IVIX, we believe this initiative marks a transformative step forward in the global fight against financial crime. As jurisdictions move to adopt and adapt these standards, IVIX stands ready to support the TCIM’s implementation through advanced technology, intelligent automation, and strategic partnership.

Illuminating the Shadow Economy through OSINT

One of the most powerful tools in IVIX’s arsenal is our ability to harness Open‑Source Intelligence (OSINT) to uncover tax evasion and illuminate the often‑invisible corners of the shadow economy. While traditional tax enforcement relies on declarations and filings, IVIX taps into publicly available data—such as online business activity, social media signals, digital advertisements, marketplace listings, and licensing records—to identify entities and individuals engaged in unreported or underreported economic activity.

By automating the collection and analysis of vast OSINT datasets, IVIX helps tax authorities:

·      Detect businesses that operate informally or entirely off the books;

·      Identify income streams and assets that are deliberately concealed;

·      Match digital footprints with official tax filings to spot non‑compliance;

·      Surface high‑risk actors and networks operating across borders; and

·      Ensure and validate that audit leads meet the financial thresholds of the tax jurisdiction.

This capability is crucial in environments where tax evasion thrives due to lack of visibility or under‑resourced enforcement. OSINT empowers investigators to move beyond what is declared, enabling proactive detection and intervention—a core aim of the OECD manual.

Bridging Operational Gaps with Automation and Intelligence

The OECD manual rightly emphasizes the need for structured investigation frameworks and the integration of data and intelligence throughout the life cycle of tax‑crime investigations—from case referral and planning to prosecution and asset recovery. IVIX’s platform was designed precisely to augment these processes:

·      Automated Discovery – Our AI‑driven system identifies tax‑evasion patterns across publicly available and government‑sourced data, facilitating faster, more accurate case referrals—one of the first steps in the TCIM model.

·      Dynamic Risk Assessment – We help agencies prioritize high‑impact cases by generating risk scores based on behavioral, transactional, and network signals—streamlining case selection as encouraged by the manual.

Enabling a Whole‑of‑Government Approach

A key theme in the OECD manual is the operationalization of a “whole‑of‑government” strategy through enhanced inter‑agency cooperation. IVIX supports this goal by:

·      Creating Cross‑Agency Visibility – Our secure platform allows multiple stakeholders—tax authorities, FIUs, law enforcement, and prosecutors—to view and collaborate on risk profiles and investigation leads in real time.

·      Enriching Data Pipelines – We integrate external data sources with internal intelligence, improving context, accuracy, and enforcement readiness across agency boundaries.

Enhancing Investigator Capacity with Digital Tooling

The manual underscores the importance of equipping investigators with digital tools—capabilities to analyze financial transactions, trace assets, and detect hidden ownership. This aligns with IVIX’s core offerings:

·      Beneficial Ownership Resolution – IVIX excels at uncovering obscured ownership structures, a key obstacle in many tax‑crime cases.

·      Digital Evidence Collection – Our audit trails and structured evidence outputs support legal admissibility, as required in criminal proceedings.

Supporting Institutional Learning and Integrity

The TCIM recognizes that technical knowledge and organizational integrity are essential to sustainable enforcement. IVIX contributes on both fronts:

1.     Specialized Training Programs: IVIX partners with tax enforcement agencies to train investigators on advanced, high‑risk domains such as:

·      Cryptocurrency capital gains

·      E‑commerce platform TAX and VAT collection issues

·      Short‑term rental activity capital gains

·      Social‑media influencer income

·      FATCA/CRS cross‑border data analysis

These areas represent fast‑growing challenges for many jurisdictions, and our goal is to ensure officers are prepared to act decisively, using both OSINT and structured intelligence.

2.    Upholding Procedural Integrity: IVIX helps agencies align their investigative workflows with national legal frameworks and international norms—reinforcing due process, auditability, and the chain of evidence.

3.    Continuous Product Evolution: We integrate investigator feedback into our roadmap to ensure our platform evolves alongside emerging threats and policy changes.

Partnering for Impact

As jurisdictions begin to adapt and adopt the OECD's manual ,IVIX offers a natural complement: actionable intelligence, robust technology, and proven ROI results. From uncovering sophisticated tax‑evasion networks to operationalizing inter‑agency collaboration, our mission is to make enforcement scalable, efficient, and just.

We applaud the OECD’s leadership and are proud to support the global fight against tax crime.

Learn more at: https://www.ivix.ai.

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