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EU set to remove Seychelles from tax haven blacklist
September 29th, 2021
European Union finance ministers are set to remove the Seychelles, Dominica and Anguilla from the bloc’s blacklist of tax havens next week, documents seen by Reuters indicate, while Panama has failed in its request to be delisted. The list ...
EU tax haven blacklist not catching worst offenders
December 30th, 2020
MEPs adopted a resolution setting out changes to be made to the system used to draw up the EU list of tax havens, which they deem is currently “confusing and ineffective”. Criterion to judge if a country’s tax system ...
EU puts Cayman Islands on tax haven blacklist
February 19th, 2020
The European Union has added the Cayman Islands, a UK overseas territory, to its tax havens blacklist. It joins Oman, Fiji and Vanuatu, which have also been accused of failing to crack down on tax abuse. Oxfam, which lobbies ...
EU removes Belize from its Tax Haven Blacklist
November 14th, 2019
The European Council agreed to remove Belize from the EU’s list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. North Macedonia meets commitments. Belize has passed the necessary reforms to improve its tax regime for international business companies that was due to be ...
EU tax haven blacklist shrinks to five
November 7th, 2018
European Union finance ministers on Tuesday removed Namibia from the bloc’s blacklist of tax havens, an EU statement said. The list is now down to five non-cooperative jurisdictions: American Samoa, Guam, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago and the US Virgin ...
Liechtenstein and Peru removed from EU “gray” list of tax havens
October 5th, 2018
Liechtenstein and Peru are compliant with EU laws on tax after implementing necessary reforms and were therefore removed from EU “gray” list of tax havens, the Council of the European Union said Tuesday in a statement. In late 2017, ...
Virtual currency may be next tax haven, European Parliament warns
September 11th, 2018
Virtual currencies could become a new “virtual tax haven,” posing a major risk for governments, according to a report released amid an EU finance ministers meeting on the topic. The European Parliament report warned virtual currency poses a “direct ...
Russia passes tax haven laws to bypass sanctions
August 1st, 2018
International firms can use new laws to establish an offshore domicile and thereby bypass sanctions. The Russian parliament’s upper chamber has approved a package of laws to enable Russia-controlled foreign offshore companies to be re-registered in offshore financial centers ...
Tax haven myths challenged by think tank
June 19th, 2018
A new report debunks the myths surrounding the purposes of tax havens and challenges the image of ‘hotbeds of tax evasion.’ In research debunking myths about tax havens, UK think tank The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) argues tax ...
EU set to remove Bahamas, St Kitts from tax haven blacklist
May 21st, 2018
European Union finance ministers are set to remove the Caribbean islands of the Bahamas and Saint Kitts and Nevis from an EU list of tax havens next week, EU documents show. The two islands had been included in the ...