By Dónal Godfrey, Global Forum Secretariat Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes Global Forum web site: www.oecd.org/tax/transparency Transparency and Exchange of Information: The Impact of the Global Forum’s work on the Internal Market Brussels March 2012
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By Dónal Godfrey, Global Forum SecretariatGlobal Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes
Global Forum web site: www.oecd.org/tax/transparency
Transparency and Exchange of Information:
The Impact of the Global Forum’s work on the Internal Market
Brussels
March 2012
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What’s at stake in the EU? tax fraud and evasion:
distorts the internal market prevents fair competition based on services shifts tax burdens to law abiding taxpayers
facilitated by lack of transparency and EOI, i.e. strict bank secrecy and confidentiality laws
lax response to requests for information, e.g. delayed or inadequate response
= no level playing field inside or outside the EU
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Who we are in the EU?
http://eoi-tax.org/
New GF members:Latvia (review in 2013)Lithuania (review in 2013)
What we do?The Global Forum standards on transparency and exchange of
information can be depicted as a triangle or pyramid:
• Exchange of information on request with safeguards to protect taxpayers’ rights and confidentiality.
• Availability of information particularly accounting, bank and ownership information
• Access to information and powers to obtain it
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Implementing the Standards
Global Forum peer reviewso Terms of Reference (3 categories/10 essential elements)o Peer driven exercise (2 Phases)o More than 60 reviews already completedo Determinations and recommendations with 3 tier rating system (Phase 1) + 4
tier rating mechanisms (Phase 2)
Report to the G20 analyses o Level of cooperationo Level of complianceo Main deficiencies: number of recommendations…
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Number of recommendations made under Phase 1 for each
of the reviewed jurisdictions
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CHANGES IN EUROPE
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All countries commit to lift bank secrecy for exchange of information for tax purposes: Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
And remove restrictive conditions on bank information requests: Andorra, Estonia and United Kingdom
And ensure owners of bearer shares are identified: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom
And sign TIEAS: Liechtenstein and Monaco
And make available accounting information consistent with the standard: Andorra, Austria, Hungary, Netherlands, Liechtenstein and Monaco.
And improve exchange of information in practice
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What’s next now? Supplementary Reports – ongoing Phase 2 reviews – will commence in 2012 starting with
the review of Brazil in June 2012 Competent authority meeting – May 2012 Technical assistance – already commenced Report to G20 again in June 2012 (Mexican Presidency)