IMF Staff Concluding Statement of the 2021 Article IV Mission to Aruba – belastinggerelateerde passages (Aruba)

Het Internationaal Monetair Fonds (International Monetary Fund, “IMF”) heeft op 8 maart 2021 een Concluding Statement uitgegeven inzake de “Article IV Mission” naar Aruba: “Kingdom of the Netherlands—Aruba: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2021 Article IV Mission”. Over de publicatie van het rapport en de bevindingen is door de regering van Aruba een persbericht uitgegeven: klik hier om naar het persbericht op de website van de overheid van Aruba te gaan ...

OECD releases the final batch of the stage 1 peer review reports for BEPS Action 14 on dispute resolution mechanisms

On 16 February 2021 the OECD released the final batch of the stage 1 peer review reports for BEPS Action 14 on dispute resolution mechanisms. The stage 1 peer review assessments for Aruba, Bahrain, Barbados, Gibraltar, Greenland, Kazakhstan, Oman, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates and Viet Nam evaluate the efforts made by each jurisdiction to implement the Action 14 minimum standard of the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, which aims to improve the resolution of tax-related disputes between jurisdictions ...

Stage 1 peer review report on dispute resolution released by OECD: overall Aruba meets the majority of the elements of the Action 14 Minimum Standard and where it has deficiencies, Aruba is working to address some of them

On 16 February 2021 the OECD released the final batch of the stage 1 peer review reports for BEPS Action 14 on dispute resolution mechanisms, including the stage 1 peer review assessment for Aruba. This has been announced by the OECD with a press release dated 16 February 2021 on the occasion of the release of the peer review reports. The reports evaluate the efforts made by each jurisdiction to implement ...

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 ...

Stage 1 peer review report on dispute resolution released by OECD: overall Curaçao meets most of the elements of the BEPS Action 14 Minimum Standard

On 24 February 2020 the stage 1 peer review report for Curaçao on dispute resolution (BEPS Action 14) was released by the OECD: Making Dispute Resolution More Effective – MAP Peer Review Report, Curaçao (Stage 1): Inclusive Framework on BEPS: Action 14, OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project (hereafter to be referred to as: “the report”). The report assesses the country's efforts to implement the Action 14 minimum standard ...

IMF: additional measures should contain a mix of tax reforms and expenditure rationalization (Aruba)

IMF Executive Board concluded the 2019 Article IV Consultation with the Kingdom of the Netherlands-Aruba. Under Article IV of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement, the IMF holds bilateral discussions with members, usually every year. In the context of the 2019 Article IV consultation with the Kingdom of the Netherlands—Aruba, the following documents have been released and are included in this package: A Press Release on the staff report that concluded ...

IMF Staff Concluding Statement of the 2019 Article IV Mission to Aruba

Het Internationaal Monetair Fonds (International Monetary Fund, “IMF”) heeft op 1 april 2019 een Concluding Statement uitgegeven met betrekking tot de “Article IV Mission” naar Aruba: “Kingdom of the Netherlands—Aruba: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2019 Article IV Mission”. In het Concluding Statement laat het IMF zich ook uit over de belastinghervormingen. Hieronder nemen wij de Concluding Statement op: “Kingdom of the Netherlands—Aruba: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2019 Article ...

Kingdom of the Netherlands deposits instrument of acceptance of the Multilateral Instrument (MLI) for Curaçao and (the European and Caribbean parts of) the Netherlands

On 29 March 2019, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (multilateral convention or "Multilateral Instrument", "MLI") (Trb. 2017, 86, en Trb. 2017, 194) with the OECD’s Secretary-General, Angel Gurría, underlining its strong commitment to prevent the abuse of tax treaties and base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) by ...

Aangewezen nationale gerechten – waaronder het Gemeenschappelijk Hof van Justitie – kunnen het EHRM verzoeken om advies over principiële (rechts)vragen

Op 19 januari 2019 is de Rijkswet van 5 december 2018, houdende goedkeuring van het op 2 oktober 2013 te Straatsburg tot stand gekomen Protocol nr. 16 bij het Verdrag tot bescherming van de rechten van de mens en de fundamentele vrijheden (Trb. 2013, 241 en Trb. 2014, 74) in werking getreden. De Rijkswet (Kamerdossier 34 235 (R2053)) werd uitgegeven in het Staatsblad van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden van 18 ...

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 ...