EU backs Gibraltar’s tax transparency measures
The EU Commission says Gibraltar’s financial services industry is not ‘harmful’ to other EU tax regimes
The EU Commission says Gibraltar’s financial services industry is not ‘harmful’ to other EU tax regimes
Crown dependency canvassing stakeholders on substance rules in bid to avoid being branded a tax haven
If the US does not comply with the OECD Common Reporting Standard by June next year it faces being placed on the EU blacklist for non-cooperative jurisdictions, an EU top official has warned.
The much-maligned European Union tax haven blacklist is set to shrink to seven jurisdictions following the removal of the Bahamas and St Kitts & Nevis.
The EU has told the Isle of Man if it wants to stay off its tax haven blacklist, the island’s government needs to address the “lack of legal substance requirements” for all companies doing business on the island, according to chief minister Howard Quayle.
The Isle of Man’s chief minister, Howard Quayle, says the jurisdiction faces the “very real danger” of being put on the EU tax haven blacklist.
The UK “should regard it as a matter of national shame that the crown dependencies and overseas territories that fly our flag give shelter to the wealth of the world’s financial elite”, HM Treasury sub-committee chair John Mann has said.
A “fast-tracked” OECD review could decide if the European Union adds the United States to its blacklist for non-cooperative tax jurisdictions, according to media reports.
Malta has backed EU regulation that will crackdown on aggressive tax planning, a move the jurisdiction’s finance minister hopes will quash criticism about its tax practices.
Letters have been released that show the raft of promises several jurisdictions made to avoid being included on the EU’s tax haven blacklist for non-cooperative jurisdictions.
EU officials are set to add the Bahamas, St Kitts and Nevis and the US Virgin Islands to its tax haven blacklist, taking the total number of jurisdictions on the list to nine.
EU finance ministers are expected to remove three more jurisdictions from the EU tax haven blacklist, meaning it has shrunk from 17 to just six since its inception in December.