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Exchange of information is an important tool in fighting non-compliance with the tax laws in an increasingly borderless world. The Committee on Fiscal Affairs is working to improve exchange of information both from a legal and a practical perspective.
What's new
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09-Dec-2008
The Manual provides practical assistance to officials dealing with exchange of information for tax purposes and may also be useful in designing or revising national manuals. It has been developed with the input of both member and non-member countries. It is presented in a modular form which allows countries to tailor the design of their own manuals by incorporating only the modules that are relevant to their specific exchange of information programmes. It is available in English, French and now also in Spanish.
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30-Oct-2008
Some 16 new bilateral agreements on exchange of information for tax purposes signed this week between OECD countries and the British Virgin Islands, Guernsey and Jersey mark an important step forward in efforts to bring greater transparency to cross-border financial transactions. OECD countries have been working with financial centres around the world since 2000 to bring greater transparency and accountability to cross-border transactions.
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22-Oct-2008
The fight against tax fraud and evasion was given renewed political impetus on 21 October 2008 when 17 OECD countries agreed to step up pressure for full implementation of the OECD’s transparency and information exchange standards. The initiative, spearheaded by the French and German governments, called on OECD to review how countries and territories are assessed for full compliance with the exchange of information requirements. Read the Secretary-General’s speech to the ministers attending the conference.
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29-Sep-2008
The Isle of Man and the United Kingdom announced that they have signed a bilateral agreement for the exchange of information for tax purposes, bringing to 11 the number of such agreements entered into by the Isle of Man.
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30-Sep-2008
Advances are being achieved in bringing greater transparency to financial centres around the world, but progress on exchange of information on tax issues is more limited, according to OECD’s latest report on its drive to bring more fairness to cross-border tax co-operation.
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04-Jul-2008
Germany and Jersey have signed a bilateral arrangement for the exchange of information for tax purposes, bringing to 16 the number of such agreements signed since the beginning of 2007 by jurisdictions committed to work with OECD countries.
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25-Apr-2008
Two new bilateral arrangements for the exchange of information for tax purposes, between Guernsey and the Netherlands and between the Isle of Man and Ireland, bring to fourteen the number of such agreements signed since the beginning of 2007 by jurisdictions committed to work with OECD countries.
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18-Apr-2008
Germany has joined 15 other countries in signing the OECD-Council of Europe Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, in a step that will help it to combat cross-border tax evasion more effectively in today’s open global economy.
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14-Mar-2008
In this joint press statement Mr. Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General and Ms. Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian Minister of Finance address the issue of cross-border tax evasion.
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26-Feb-2008
Grace Perez-Navarro, deputy-director of OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, addresses harmful tax practices, including tax havens, by improving transparency and establishing effective exchange of information.
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19-Feb-2008
Disclosures concerning alleged widespread tax evasion by German citizens through Liechtenstein highlight a much broader challenge in today's globalised economy: how to respond to countries and territories that seek to profit from tax dodging by residents of other jurisdictions.
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Report
The Committee on Fiscal Affairs releases a new progress report which describes the progress made with respect to all of the measures set out in the report on Improving Access to Bank Information for Tax Purposes which was published in April 2000. The Committee published its first progress report on this issue in 2003.
Improving Access to Bank Information for Tax Purposes: The 2007 Progress Report
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Find out why OECD's work on improving the exchange of information is so critical.
