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It becomes the second G20 country to warrant increased monitoring
It becomes the second G20 country to warrant increased monitoring
As it removes Barbados while the country undergoes a review by the OECD
Crown dependency canvassing stakeholders on substance rules in bid to avoid being branded a tax haven
The EU Commission has sent a “wake-up call” to those on its blacklist for non-cooperative tax jurisdictions, announcing its first sanctions to counter their “aggressive tax practices”.
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.
The European Union’s finance minister is expected to remove almost half of the jurisdictions, including Panama and the UAE, from the tax haven blacklist next week, in a move that critics may see as a watering down of its tax avoidance campaign.
Dubai wealth managers have questioned why countries like the US and Switzerland have been left off the EU tax haven blacklist but the UAE has been included.
Oxfam has warned that the EU grey list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes should not be treated as a way of letting tax havens “off the hook”, as those named try to get to grips with the implications of their inclusion.