1991

• First Tax and Investment Mission to Russia (organized by the Tax Foundation, the precursor to ITIC)

• Fall of the USSR Independence for Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan

1992

• Tax Mission to Russia at the invitation of the State Tax Service and Ministry of Finance

• Creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

1993

• First Tax Mission to Kazakhstan at the invitation of the Ministry of Finance and Main Tax Inspectorate 

• Cooperation Protocol signed with Republic of Kazakhstan 

• Cooperation Protocol signed with Russian Ministry of Finance & State Tax Service 

• ITIC founded under the above Protocols

• First Russian Duma elected

• Kazakh Tenge introduced

1994

• Tax and Investment Forums launched in Russia 

• Tax Code Project launched in Kazakhstan 

• Over 225 CIS officials participate in ITIC study tours in the USA and UK 

• Tax Roundtables and Bulletins launched

• Kazakhstan mass privatization begins

• New Russian Civil Code adopted

1995

• ITIC launches Parliamentary Outreach and Education Programs in Russia and Kazakhstan 

• ITIC launches Russian Tax Code Project 

• European office opened

• Kazakhstan Tax Code enacted

• Second Russian State Duma elected

• New Kazakhstan Constitution

1996

• Excise tax economic impact model developed 

• Russian Oil and Gas Working Group created 

• Kazakhstan Oil and Gas Tax Working Group created 

• First Annual Survey of Investor Opinions

• President Yeltsin re-elected

• First Kazakhstan Majilis elections Russia enacts sweeping excise tax reforms

• Kazakhstan State Committee on Investments created

1997

• Caspian Mineral Tax Committee (CMTC) created 

• Russian Commercial Tax Committee (RCTC) created

• Asian financial crisis affecting Central Asia and Russia

• Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev announces “2030 Development Strategy” 

• Kazakhstan moves capital to Astana

1998

• Russian Financial Services Taxation Committee (RFSTC) created 

• CIS Tax Harmonization Project launched (with Eurasia Foundation support) 

• ITIC selected (with GSU) for USAID Russian Tax Reform Project 

• Astana office opened

• Kazakhstan pension reform launched 

• Russian financial crisis

1999

• Vladimir Samoylenko appointed Budget Committee Taxation Advisor 

• New Memorandum of Cooperation with Kazakhstan Ministry of State Revenues signed 

• First Annual CIS Comparative Tax Regime Study

• Third Russian State Duma elected

• Russian Tax Code Part I enacted

• Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev re-elected

2000

• First ITIC Academy launched in Atyrau and Aksai 

• Kiev office opened

• Russian Tax Code Part II (four parts enacted) 

• Kazakhstan Tax Summit 

• President Putin elected

2001

• Russia implements destination principle VAT 
• Second ITIC Academy launched in Baku

• Russian Tax Code Profits Tax Articles enacted 
• New Kazakhstan Tax Code enacted

2002

• Baku office opened
• Excise tax conference held in the Hague
• China Tax Reform Project launched with IBFD

• Kazakhstan first CIS nation with debt rating of BBB
• First oil shipped via Caspian pipeline
• Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline inaugurated

2003

• 900th CIS government official participated in ITIC educational program
• ITIC chosen (with Bearing Point) for EU-funded project, "Russian Tax Reform"
• New Kazakhstan Customs Code

• Russian PSA tax articles enacted
• Azerbaijan tax code amended
• Kazakhstan Inter-Regional Oil & Gas Taxation Committee established

2004

• Russian Tax Policy Forum
• Kazakhstan Investors' Roundtable
• ITIC publishes Special Report on Iraq

• Presidential elections lead to Orange Revolution in Ukraine
• Vladimir Putin re-elected

2005

• Iraq Petroleum Taxation Workshop
• Asia Excise Conference in Singapore
• First Annual CIS Intergovernmental Fiscal Conference
• First Asia Tax Forum Conference Held in The Philippines

• President Nazarbayev re-elected in landslide victory
• Part I and Part II of Russian Tax Code Amended
• Parliamentary Elections in Azerbaijan

2006

• Petroleum Fiscal Workshop in Tripoli
• Second Annual Intergovernmental Fiscal Conference for CIS Ministries of Finance
• Second Asia Tax Forum held in Bangkok, Thailand
• ITIC's Iraq Study presented at Iraq Energy Roundtable

• Ukrainian Parliamentary (Verkhovna Rada) elections held
• Civic and Otan parties merge in Kazakhstan

2007

• Fourth ATF meeting in Hanoi held
• Tax Dispute Workshop for Russian Judges Held in Moscow
• Excise taxation conference held in The Hague

• Kazakhstan Parliamentary elections
• Vliktor Zubkov becomes Prime Minister in Russia
• Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow elected as President of Turkmenistan