OECD RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT TAX HAVEN TAX INFORMATION EXCHANGE

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has released detailed reports on 13 countries, mostly key financial centres, highlighting some shortcomings their providing tax information with foreign tax authorities. Particular problems were underlined with the British Virgin Islands (BVI), where there where “difficulties obtaining and exchanging information for tax purposes” from July 2009 to June 2012, with a “significant proportion” of responses to tax information requests being “incomplete”. The BVI financial regulator has ...


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