11/13/2013
The Tax Justice Network is often dismissed by players here but it is a well-known international NGO which focuses on promoting transparency in international finance and opposes all secrecy. Opposing legal tax avoidance as well as illegal evasion
11/12/2013
The Internal Revenue Service has obtained court orders to force five U.S. banks to divulge information about U.S. account holders who allegedly hid money with banks based in Switzerland and Bermuda to evade taxes
11/12/2013
The meeting was attended by delegates from more than 35 countries and by more than 150 representatives of business, academia, civil society and the press.
11/11/2013
Switzerland has once again been named the world’s most secretive jurisdiction by the Tax Justice Network, a UK-based campaign group.
11/11/2013
ZKB, the biggest of Switzerland’s publicly owned regional banks, “conspired with U.S. taxpayers to help them conceal their foreign accounts,”
11/09/2013
The government of Cyprus has said it will hold talks with India's income tax department this month to help remove the tag of a tax-non-cooperating jurisdiction that India had given the tag to the Mediterranean island nation last week.
11/09/2013
Failure to meet these new reporting obligations would result in a financial institution suffering a 30 per cent withholding tax on certain US source income.
11/08/2013
HMRC is wasting time and effort by continuing to deny Gibraltar as an acceptable Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes jurisdiction
11/07/2013
The International Monetary Fund issued a statement on November 05, 2013 denying that it favors a wealth tax
11/07/2013
Portugal Gazettes Tax Regularization Decree
11/04/2013
Officials from Jersey met with senior officials from France’s Ministry of Finance last week (Thursday 31 October) and were told that Jersey’s significant efforts to ensure tax information requests are responded to swiftly and effectively are b
11/04/2013
"We will be signing this afternoon a tax information sharing agreement with the Cayman Islands, the first ever with an overseas territory," Osborne told parliament.
11/04/2013
The department said the FATCA is “rapidly becoming the global standard in the effort to curb offshore tax evasion
11/04/2013
UK chancellor George Osborne will be signing a tax agreement with the Cayman islands for the benefit of collecting tax information.
11/04/2013
The deal is the latest step by Argentina--long famed for rampant tax evasion--to reach agreements with tax havens around the world to track down fiscal information on individuals and companies suspected of bilking the treasury.
11/04/2013
The Multilateral Convention provides for all forms of mutual assistance: exchange on request, spontaneous exchange, tax examinations abroad, simultaneous tax examinations and assistance in tax collection, while protecting taxpayers’ rights.
11/04/2013
The UK is a party to the convention and, in accordance with legal requirements, Cayman must formally request that the UK extend the convention to this jurisdiction.
11/03/2013
There have been certain requests for information made by the French under the terms of our TIEA that remain outstanding
11/03/2013
Guernsey has been commended for its leadership on tax transparency and cooperation by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) after concluding its 50th bilateral Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA).
11/03/2013
The impact of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act on the asset management industry is profound.