The Bermudan government said Monday that it has signed a tax information-exchange agreement with the Netherlands which allows it to meet international standards on tax-haven transparency.
Luxembourg Minister of Budget Luc Frieden concluded a new tax agreement with Dutch State Secretary of Finance Jan Kees de Jager on 29 May. The agreement will provide for the exchange of information in tax matters between the two countries in accordance with the OECD standard.
Jeffrey Owens is the director of tax planning and administration at the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy, which is responsible for framing tax principles and ensuring that tax havens fall in line on disclosure norms and share information. He spoke to Sidhartha on recent developments and the strategy India should adopt on double taxation avoidance treaties.
The OECD is working to improve the way the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information evaluates the progress made by countries in implementing the internationally agreed tax standards, Jeffrey Owens, director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, told Tax Analysts in a June 1 interview.
Luxembourg signed a new tax cooperation agreement with France on Wednesday that reduces the scope of its banking secrecy, one of over a dozen such deals it intends to reach this year to avoid being branded a tax haven.
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has announced that Andorra, Liechtenstein and Monaco have been removed from its list of ‘uncooperative tax havens’.
Switzerland may find it “difficult” to get referendum approval for a tax deal with Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey in an interview.
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Swiss and Saudi Arabian officials have initialled the first double-taxation treaty that eases portions of Switzerland’s banking secrecy laws.
Tax havens are at the heart of the corruption that is sucking the continent dry.
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