Jurisdictions take action to address the potential misuse of RBI/CBI schemes for CRS-circumvention purposes
On Tuesday, 16 October 2018, the OECD issued guidance for financial institutions on how to conduct enhanced due diligence procedures under the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) in order to ensure that certain residence and citizenship by investment (RBI/CBI) schemes do not get misused by account holders for the purpose of circumventing the CRS. The schemes included in the guidance are those that pose a high risk for being misused because ...