automatic exchange of information

Op 13 september 2018 zijn de Engelse teksten van een viertal verklaringen van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in het kader van de effectieve data voor uitwisseling van informatie onder het WABB-verdrag (Verdrag inzake wederzijdse administratieve bijstand in belastingzaken) en de Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) in het Tractatenblad van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden geplaatst (Trb. 2018, 167). Ten behoeve van Nederland, zowel voor het Europese als voor het Caribische deel ...

On 22 July 2018, the OECD Secretary-General report to the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was published on the website of the OECD. The report contains two parts. Part I is a report on the activities and achievements of the OECD’s tax agenda, and is made of two subparts: looking back at significant achievements and looking ahead at the further progress needed, in particular through the OECD/G20 Inclusive ...

Over 70 participants from 20 countries in Europe and Central Asia gathered in Tbilisi, Georgia, for a high-level regional event on Developments in International Tax Co-operation: Fighting Tax Evasion and Avoidance on 17-18 July 2018. This was announced in a press release dated 20 July 2018 published on the website of the OECD. From the press release: Over two days, participants discussed policy responses to fighting tax evasion and avoidance, as well ...

On 5 July 2018, the OECD published a new set of bilateral exchange relationships established under the Common Reporting Standard Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (CRS MCAA). This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 5 July 2018. In total, the international legal network for the automatic exchange of offshore financial account information under the CRS now covers over 90 jurisdictions, with the remaining dozen set to follow ...

Op 20 maart 2018 is de ontwerplandsverordening tot wijziging van de Landsverordening op de Winstbelasting 1940, de Algemene landsverordening Landsbelastingen en de Landsverordening internationale bijstandverlening bij de heffing van belastingen (Landsverordening houdende aanvullende documentatieverplichtingen verrekenprijzen) (Zittingsjaar 2017-2018-123) (hierna: de ontwerplandsverordening) ter goedkeuring aangeboden aan de Staten van Curaçao. In een artikel in het CFN van 13 april 2018, nr. 2018/15 maakten wij er reeds melding van dat deze ontwerplandsverordening op vrijdag ...

Yesterday, 5 April 2018, the OECD published a new set of bilateral exchange relationships established under the Common Reporting Standard Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (CRS MCAA) which for the first time includes activations by Panama. This was announced in a press release published on the website of the OECD. In total, there are now over 2700 bilateral relationships for the automatic exchange of offshore financial account information under the CRS in ...

The OECD has published the OECD Secretary-General Report to the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, for their meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The report contains two parts. Part I is a report on the activities and achievements of the OECD’s tax agenda, and is made of two subparts: looking back at significant achievements and looking ahead at the further progress needed, in particular through the Inclusive Framework on ...

Op 22 december 2017 is het Landsbesluit, houdende algemene maatregelen, van 19 december 2017 ter uitvoering van artikel 6 van de Landsverordening internationale bijstandsverlening belastingen (Landsbesluit uitvoering Common Reporting Standard) uitgegeven en gepubliceerd in het Afkondigingsblad van Aruba, jaargang 2017, no. 76 (AB 2017 no. 76). In dit landsbesluit worden ten behoeve van de automatische uitwisseling van inlichtingen op basis van de Common Reporting Standard nadere regels gesteld. Dit landsbesluit ...

In de uitgaven van het CFN van 15 december 2017, nr. 2017/49, en van 22 december 2017, nr. 2017/50, attendeerden wij er reeds op dat op 4 december 2017 de Ontwerplandsverordening houdende bepalingen inzake de internationale bijstandsverlening bij internationale belastingaangelegenheden (Landsverordening internationale bijstandsverlening belastingen) (Staten van Aruba, Zittingsjaar 2017-2018-877) (hierna: de LIBB) door de Staten van Aruba werd aangenomen. De Landsverordening internationale bijstandsverlening belastingen is inmiddels op 19 december 2017 ...

In het CFN van 15 december 017, nr. 2017/49, attendeerden wij er reeds op dat op 4 december 2017 de Ontwerplandsverordening houdende bepalingen inzake de internationale bijstandsverlening bij internationale belastingaangelegenheden (Landsverordening internationale bijstandsverlening belastingen) (Staten van Aruba, Zittingsjaar 2017-2018-877) (hierna: de LIBB) door de Staten van Aruba is aangenomen. Wij kondigden daarbij aan dat details zouden volgen. Inmiddels is de ontwerplandsverordening zoals die op 15 november 2017 door de toenmalige ...

On the website of the OECD, the international state of play can be discovered with an interactive map presenting key indicators and outcomes of the OECD work on international tax matters (in particular regarding transparency and co-operation in tax matters through the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes and most recently the Inclusive Framework on BEPS), with close to 150 countries and jurisdictions. Refer to the ...

On the website of the OECD, the international state of play can be discovered with an interactive map presenting key indicators and outcomes of the OECD work on international tax matters (in particular regarding transparency and co-operation in tax matters through the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes and most recently the Inclusive Framework on BEPS), with close to 150 countries and jurisdictions. Refer to the ...

On the website of the OECD, the international state of play can be discovered with an interactive map presenting key indicators and outcomes of the OECD work on international tax matters (in particular regarding transparency and co-operation in tax matters through the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes and most recently the Inclusive Framework on BEPS), with close to 150 countries and jurisdictions. Refer to the ...

On the website of the OECD, the international state of play can be discovered with an interactive map presenting key indicators and outcomes of the OECD work on international tax matters (in particular regarding transparency and co-operation in tax matters through the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes and most recently the Inclusive Framework on BEPS), with close to 150 countries and jurisdictions. Refer to the ...

In an announcement dated 5 December 2017 on its website, the OECD notes that over the last 50 years, the OECD led the way on tax issues and has been at the forefront of promoting transparency and co-operation in tax matters through the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes  and most recently the Inclusive Framework on BEPS. Both the Global Forum and the Inclusive Framework on ...

The first ever EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions has been agreed today, Tuesday 5 December 2017, by the Finance Ministers of EU Member States during their meeting in Brussels, as the European Commission announced today in a press release published on its website. The Council, at its meeting of today, adopted the Council conclusions on the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. In total, ministers have listed ...

200 Delegates from more than 90 delegations met in Yaoundé, Cameroon for the 10th meeting of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes which now includes 147 countries and jurisdictions. The meeting took place last week, 15-17 November 2017. The Global Forum adopted the first report on the status of implementation of the AEOI Standard a few weeks after almost 50 countries started exchanges of information ...

The Peer Review Report on the Exchange of Information on Request in relation to Curaçao 2017 (Second Round) released today by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, concludes that Curaçao is rated “Partially-Compliant” overall. The report – full name: Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes: Curaçao 2017 (Second Round). Peer Review Report on the Exchange of Information on Request, ...

In a press release on the website of the OECD, the publication of the second round peer review report for Curaçao has been announced to take place during the 10th meeting of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, in Yaoundé, Cameroon on 15-17 November 2017. During the 10th meeting of the Global Forum, new efforts to ensure a worldwide level playing field and global implementation ...

New efforts to ensure a worldwide level playing field and global implementation of transparency standards will top the agenda during the 10th meeting of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, in Yaoundé, Cameroon on 15-17 November 2017, according to a press release dated 9 November 2017 on the website of the OECD. Global Forum members will discuss key developments in the areas of exchange of ...

The Forum on Tax Administration (FTA) is the leading international body concerned with tax administration. The FTA, which brings together Tax Commissioners from 50 advanced and emerging tax administrations (including OECD and G20 countries), held its Plenary meeting in Oslo on 27-29 September. In an item dated of 29 September 2017, the OECD brings forward the key themes as discussed during the Plenary.  At the close of said meeting a communiqué was released which ...

In 2014, the OECD and the G20 approved the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), which will be the basis for the automatic annual exchange of information on offshore financial accounts to the tax authorities of the residence country of account holders. In an item on its website on 14 September 2017, the OECD informs that at present, 102 jurisdictions have publicly committed to implement the CRS, with 49 being committed to ...

  As part of its ongoing efforts to maintain the integrity of the OECD Common Reporting Standard (CRS), the OECD on 5 May 2017 launched a disclosure facility on the Automatic Exchange Portal which allows interested parties to report potential schemes to circumvent the CRS. Also today, a further important step to implement the CRS was taken, with an additional 500 bilateral automatic exchange relationships being established between over 60 ...

  The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have signed exchange of notes of 22 December 2016 in which they have have declared, that the Agreement between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the automatic exchange of information regarding savings income in the form of interest payments (hereafter the “Convention”) will no longer ...

  The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Slovenia have signed exchange of notes of 25 November, 21 December and 23 December 2016 in which they have declared, that that the Agreement between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Slovenia concerning the automatic exchange of information regarding savings income in the form of interest payments (hereafter the “Convention”) will no longer be applied from 1 January ...

  The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Finland have signed exchange of notes of 15 and 20 December 2016 in which they have declared, that that the Agreement between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Finland concerning the automatic exchange of information regarding savings income in the form of interest payments (hereafter the “Convention”) will no longer be applied from 1 January 2017 in ...