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Exchange of information is an important tool in fighting non-compliance with the tax laws in an increasingly borderless world. The Committee on Fiscal Affairs is working to improve exchange of information both from a legal and a practical perspective.
What's new
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25-Apr-2008
Two new bilateral arrangements for the exchange of information for tax purposes, between Guernsey and the Netherlands and between the Isle of Man and Ireland, bring to fourteen the number of such agreements signed since the beginning of 2007 by jurisdictions committed to work with OECD countries.
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18-Apr-2008
Germany has joined 15 other countries in signing the OECD-Council of Europe Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, in a step that will help it to combat cross-border tax evasion more effectively in today’s open global economy.
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14-Mar-2008
In this joint press statement Mr. Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General and Ms. Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian Minister of Finance address the issue of cross-border tax evasion.
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26-Feb-2008
Grace Perez-Navarro, deputy-director of OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, addresses harmful tax practices, including tax havens, by improving transparency and establishing effective exchange of information.
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19-Feb-2008
Disclosures concerning alleged widespread tax evasion by German citizens through Liechtenstein highlight a much broader challenge in today's globalised economy: how to respond to countries and territories that seek to profit from tax dodging by residents of other jurisdictions.
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30-Jan-2008
The OECD and the Council of Europe have jointly issued a new publication of the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of its opening for signature on 25 January 1988.
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04-Dec-2007
Bermuda and the United Kingdom have signed a bilateral arrangement for the exchange of information for tax purposes, marking another step forward in international efforts to implement the principles of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes developed by the OECD's Global Forum on Taxation.
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30-Oct-2007
The Isle of Man has signed bilateral agreements with seven Nordic economies -- Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden -- on exchange of information for tax purposes, marking a significant step forward in international efforts to implement standards of transparency and exchange of information in tax matters developed by OECD’s Global Forum on Taxation.
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12-Oct-2007
Many financial centres, both onshore and offshore, are making progress in improving transparency and international co-operation to counter offshore tax evasion, but some still fall short of international standards that have been developed over the last seven years, according to OECD assessments.
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25-Sep-2007
The OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Pascal Saint-Amans as Head of its International Co-operation and Tax Competition Division.
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07-Aug-2007
The OECD is pleased to announce that the Republic of the Marshall Islands has made a commitment to implement a programme to improve transparency and to establish effective exchange of information in tax matters.
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24-Jul-2007
OECD is pleased to announce the removal of Liberia from its List of Unco-operative Tax Havens, following Liberia’s commitment to implement a programme to improve transparency and establish effective exchange of information in tax matters.
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20-Jun-2007
Jersey and the Netherlands signed a bilateral agreement to exchange information for tax purposes, patterned on the OECD Model Agreement for Exchange of Information in Tax Matters, while Nordic Finance Ministers announced progress towards tax information exchange agreements with Aruba, the Isle of Man, Jersey and the Netherlands Antilles.
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Fighting Offshore Tax Evasion
Grace Perez-Navarro, deputy-director of OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, addresses harmful tax practices, including tax havens, by improving transparency and establishing effective exchange of information.
Nicholas Bray speaks with Grace Perez-Navarro
Report
The Committee on Fiscal Affairs releases a new progress report which describes the progress made with respect to all of the measures set out in the report on Improving Access to Bank Information for Tax Purposes which was published in April 2000. The Committee published its first progress report on this issue in 2003.
Improving Access to Bank Information for Tax Purposes: The 2007 Progress Report
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