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Netherlands Antilles, Aruba Meet White List TIEA Quota,
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The Nordic countries – consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway
and Sweden, and the associated territories the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland – on September 11 signed tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs) with
Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. The new agreements are 'part of a campaign
led by the Nordic Council of Ministers to encourage greater efforts to prevent
international tax evasion', according to Norden.
Norden states that 'the TIEAs will provide the tax authorities with access to all information
about citizens who try to avoid paying tax on income and capital investments
and who have undeclared assets in their home countries. The information covered
includes details of the real ownership of companies, i.e. throughout the entire
ownership chain, details of the founders, trustees and beneficiaries of trusts,
and information held by banks and financial institutions'.
The TIEAs were signed at ceremonies at the Danish (Aruba) and Finnish (Netherlands
Antilles) embassies in Paris. Similar
deals have already been struck with the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, the
Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and the British Virgin Islands.
Denmark has recently signed agreements with Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda,
Gibraltar, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Turks
and Caicos Islands. Other Nordic countries are scheduled to sign agreements
with these states soon. The Faroe Islands also signed a treaty with San Marino
on September 11. Negotiations continue with many other states.
The agreements mean that both Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles have satisfied
the 12 TIEA quota defined at the G20 summit on April 2, placing them on
the OECD’s white list of territories that have substantially implemented
the agreement standard. Aruba, to date, has signed 12 agreements, whilst
Netherlands Antilles has now concluded 15 agreements.
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