The Cayman Islands Government today announced that it will provide access to comprehensive tax information assistance to 20 countries, including the majority of Cayman’s major trading partners.
Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands and South Africa now join eight other countries afforded tax information assistance to OECD standards, with a "unilateral mechanism, which does not require a bilateral treaty."
“The Cayman Islands took the proactive step of introducing the unilateral mechanism for the provision of information in tax matters, as a complement to our bilateral negotiation programme,” Cayman Islands Leader of Government Business, the Honourable Kurt Tibbetts said. “We recognised the need to increase the pace at which we could enter into tax information arrangements, while offering a phased approach to our negotiating partners under our bilateral programme in appropriate circumstances. We look forward to continuing this progressive approach.”
In combination, the arrangements noted above cover four of the seven G-7 states and 17 of the 30 OECD member states.
Based on its current negotiating programme – which reflects OECD countries (including significant trading partners) that have indicated interest in tax cooperation arrangements – the Cayman Islands aims in the following months to enter into arrangements with a number of additional countries, including the remaining G-7 and five other OECD member states.
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