IMF Staff Concluding Statement on Article IV Mission: ‘The authorities’ strong efforts to improve revenue administration have brought tangible results and need to be continued, the authorities should subsequently consider introducing a fully-fledged VAT in place of the sales tax which would reduce distortions’ (Curaçao)
The IMF Staff Concluding Statement of the 2022 Article IV Mission regarding Curaçao and the Monetary Union of Curaçao and Sint Maarten has been published on the website of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on June 7, 2022. The IMF mission took place during May 18-25. A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or ‘mission’), in most cases to ...
Tax aspects in IMF Country Report regarding Suriname’s Request for an Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (Suriname)
On 23 December 2021, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a new 36-month arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility for Suriname, in an amount equivalent to SDR472.8 million (about US$688 million or 366.8 percent of quota). The decision enables an immediate disbursement equivalent to SDR 39.4 million (about US$55.1 million). The IMF financial arrangement will support Suriname’s authorities’ homegrown economic plan aiming to restore fiscal sustainability, ...
IMF Technical Assistance Report Sint Maarten: Sustainable Tax Reforms (Sint Maarten)
On 19 October 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published its Country Report No. 2021/231: Kingdom of the Netherlands—Sint Maarten: Technical Assistance Report—Sustainable Tax Reforms. Click here to go directly to the relevant page on the website of the IMF. This Technical Assistance Report was prepared by a staff team of the IMF. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed in March 2021. The ...
Deloitte Dutch Caribbean Tax Seminar 2020 on the most important Tax Developments in Curaçao and the Netherlands, January 14th
Deloitte Dutch Caribbean is organizing a Tax Seminar on January 14th, 2020, with Arne Kattouw LL.M., Julian Lopez Ramirez LL.M. and Prof. dr. Peter Kavelaars as presenters. Arne Kattouw LL.M. will discuss the legislative changes in the Curaçao Profit Tax, which came into effect as of January 1st, 2020. Julian Lopez Ramirez LL.M. will discuss the Curaçao Sales Tax with a focus on the envisioned ABB regime. Prof. dr. Peter ...
Dossier: Belastinghervormingen m.i.v. 2020 (‘reforma fiscal’) (Aruba)
Dossier: Belastinghervormingen m.i.v. 2020 (‘reforma fiscal’) (Aruba) LET OP: in een persbericht van van 20 maart 2020 op de website van de overheid van Aruba heeft de minister-president naar aanleiding van de effecten van de coronavirus-crisis aangegeven dat de fiscale hervorming wordt geschrapt uit de begroting voor 2020. Zie hierover meer in de samenvatting hieronder. Ontwerp-Landsverordening houdende wijziging van de Landsverordening belasting over bedrijfsomzetten en additionele voorzieningen PPS-projecten (AB 2006 ...
Kort overzicht van de gepresenteerde belastinghervormingsplannen (Aruba)
Op woensdag 4 en donderdag 5 september 2019 heeft de regering van Aruba een bijeenkomst georganiseerd voor de “stakeholders” in het bedrijfsleven over de voorgenomen belastinghervormingen (“stakeholders meeting belastinghervorming”). Tijdens de bijeenkomst werden de plannen van de regering met betrekking tot de belastinghervormingen toegelicht. De bijeenkomst werd ingeleid door de Minister van Financiën van Aruba, mevrouw mr. Xiomara Ruiz-Maduro. De Minister verzorgde een algemene inleiding over onder meer de functies ...
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 ...