OECD launches facility to disclose CRS avoidance schemes; over 1800 relationships now in place to automatically exchange CRS information between tax authorities
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 ...