IMF Executive Board Concludes 2019 Article IV Consultation with Curaçao and Sint Maarten. Analysis was prepared before the COVID-19 outbreak which has significantly worsened the outlook. Staff is closely monitoring the situation (Curaçao and Sint Maarten)

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Curaçao and Sint Maarten and considered and endorsed the staff appraisal without a meeting. These consultation discussions form part of the Article IV consultation with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Staff Report and the Statement by the Executive Director was released on 1 April 2020, guided by a press release posted on the website ...

New Beneficial Ownership Toolkit will help tax administrations tackle tax evasion more effectively

The first ever beneficial ownership toolkit was released today in the context of the OECD’s Global Integrity and Anti-Corruption Forum. The toolkit, prepared by the Secretariat of the OECD’s Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank, is intended to help governments implement the Global Forum’s standards on ensuring that law enforcement officials have access to reliable information on who the ultimate beneficial owners are behind ...

IMF Country Report on Curaçao and Sint Maarten: 2018 Article IV Consultation

On 25 January 2019 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published its Country Report “Kingdom of the Netherlands—Curaçao and Sint Maarten: 2018 Article IV Consultation Discussions”. Hereunder we will take up the integral texts (however without footnotes!) of the Press Release, the Executive Board Assessment and the Staff Report for the 2018 Article IV Consultation Discussions in the report. Furthermore, for both Curaçao and Sint Maarten we have filtered phrases from ...