The international fight against cross-border tax evasion has taken a step forward with the initiation of a peer review group which aims to assess the progress made by nations in implementing internationally agreed standards of tax transparency. On March 18th the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced the initiation of the first step in the most extensive and through international tax transparency assesment process that has ever been undertaken. Eighteen nations from the 91 participating members of the Global Forum on ... Read More

Since the April G20 summit, over 50 new TIEA agreements have been signed across the globe. The London G20 Summit, held on the 2nd of April this year, heralded an unprecedented wave of Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA). In what was described as “revolutionary” by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, the number of completed TIEAs has almost doubled since their inception in late 2000. Since the G20 summit, and subsequent global push for greater tax transparency and compliance, the following 53 agreements have been ... Read More

Monaco and the US signed a bilateral Tax Information Exchange Agreement on the 8th of September. The Taxation Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) between the city-state of Monaco and the US will allow each jurisdiction a greater set of capabilities in fighting cross border tax evasion. The agreement will allow either nation to request bank, tax and other information from the other jurisdiction on the grounds that there have already been reasonable attempts made to obtain it by other means. The agreement also extends ... Read More