The Government has appointed a Committee of 5 persons to undertake this Review. The Committee is comprised of the following distinguished Papua New Guineans, who collectively have significant experience in tax policy and administration, trade and business:

• Sir Nagora Bogan (Chairman)
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  Qualifications :

  • Graduate in Law (LLB)
  • Fellow of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Directors
  • Member of the Australian Institute of Directors
  • Professional Company director and business executive

  Experience:

  Sir Nagora Bogan has over 30 years management and business experience acquired through unstinted high level service and positions in the Government and the private sector. He has served as the first Papua New Guinean Chief Collector of Taxes and subsequently as Commissioner General of Internal Revenue Commission, Chairman of the Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators in London for 3 triennium, Ambassador to United States of America with concurrent accreditation to Canada and Mexico, and most recently as private entrepreneur and professional company director. He has extensive international and regional knowledge and experience in a wide range of discipline in the public and private sector such as finance, foreign relations, media, superannuation, banking, taxation, FMCG industries, and macro and micro economic matters.

  Other Appointments

  • Chairman, Director and Trustee of Nambawan Super Limited
  • Independent Director of Bank of South Pacific Limited
  • Director of Paradise Food Limited
  • Director of Mapai Transport Limited
  • Director of Ahi Holdings Limited
  • President of the Indigenous Business Council of Papua New Guinea.
  • Chancellor of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology
  • Chairman – Papua New Guinea Tax Review Panel
• David Sode (Deputy Chairman)
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• Sir John Luke Crittin (Member)
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• John Lohberger (Member)
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• Lady Aivu Tauvasa (Member)
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  Lady Aivu Tauvasa has held various key including CEO positions in the Pacific in work related to business, trade, export facilitation and enterprise development over the past 28 years.

  She served as Managing Director, Investment Promotion Authority in PNG for five years then in 1998 became the first Pacific Island national to be appointed as Trade Commissioner, Pacific Islands Trade & Investment Commission (PITIC) in Sydney, Australia. PITIC (since renamed Pacific Islands Trade Invest (PT&I), is an agency of the Fiji-based Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS)).

  In August 2010, Lady Tauvasa was appointed as Permanent Representative of the Delegation of the Pacific Islands Forum to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland. She opted to serve two of her three year contract and returned to Papua New Guinea in late 2012.

  Lady Tauvasa holds an MBA – Aviation Management from the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida, USA; a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Papua New Guinea and a Primary School Teacher’s Certificate from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

The Committee provides strategic and leadership directions, oversight and guidance on the timely delivery of the Tax Review work program and scheduled activities as prescribed by the terms of reference (TOR) for the Review.

The Committee formally commenced work on 1 September 2013. It submitted an Interim Report to Government in advance of the 2015 Budget. This interim report provided an update of the Review, outlined possible broad directions for reform and identified any early wins that the Government may wish to consider as an initial step towards tax reform. The main final report, which will set forth a possible substantive tax reform package going forward, will be provided to the Government by mid-2015.