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Executive Summary – Below you will see a list of the OECD model tax treaties signed in the last 12 months. There is a large amount of British and former British Colonies signing the treaties at this point. We do find this curious. These treaties have to be ratified by the parliaments of all the nations involved. There are 82 countries involved in the tax treaties. It appears that the UK put a lot of pressure on the jurisdictions which were in most instances also considered to be classical offshore tax havens as well as having some relation or ties to the British Crown.
Jurisdiction Picking – The high tax countries behind this OECD tax treaty push are cherry picking the countries they want tax treaties with first. This is to get the people to come to them and negotiate settlements on past taxes. They much rather prefer this versus incurring the expense of prosecuting them. Some of the high tax jurisdictions driving this OECD push for more transparency in banking are: USA, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and Australia. If a country like for instance Switzerland or perhaps Panama happens to have a lot of citizens from these countries banking in their banks they become a priority target for a fast track tax treaty signing.
The OECD intends to eventually have all 82 nations sign their model tax treaty with the other nations or else impose sanctions. Sanctions can include cancellation of international treaties, taxes of various sorts imposed by the other nations on goods and money transfers, and of course interfering with their correspondent bank relationship impeding with the ability of banks in a certain targeted country to send and receive wire transfers, checks and credit cards. As the OECD crunch progresses it will cause capital flight from the offshore tax havens, again in our opinion.
This can upset the liquidity in many of the offshore banks and result in bank liquidations. Again just our opinion but we are advising our clients to exercise extreme caution and avoid the traditional offshore banking tax havens. We are not using these tax havens anymore and instead using Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Costa Rica.
List Of Recent OECD Tax Treaties Signed -
Recent bilateral agreements (by date of signature)
The source page for the list of OECD signed treaties is here:
Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEAS)
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