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Timms Announces UK Tax Treaty Priorities,
by Jason Gorringe, Tax-News.com, London
Monday, July 06, 2009
UK Treasury minister, Stephen Timms, has announced details of the UK’s treaty
negotiating priorities for the year to March 31, 2010.
Timms, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, disclosed in a July 1 announcement
that the government intends to take forward work on new tax conventions with
almost 20 onshore and offshore jurisdictions, including Australia, Austria,
Belgium, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Croatia, Ethiopia,
Germany, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar, Spain, Switzerland
and Thailand.
The UK’s double taxation convention priorities are reviewed by the government
each year to ensure that the treaty network continues to meet the needs of the
businesses and individuals receiving income from abroad.
Several new double tax treaties signed by the UK have come into force recently,
including agreements with: Saudi Arabia (signed October 31, 2007, in force January
1, 2009); Slovenia (signed November 13, 2007, in force September 11, 2008);
and Moldova (signed November 8, 2007, in force October 30, 2008). In addition,
new protocols signed with Switzerland and New Zealand on June 26, 2007 and November
7, 2007, respectively, came into force on December 22, 2008 and August 28, 2008,
respectively.
In 2008 and 2009, double tax agreements were also signed with the Netherlands,
France, Libya, Mexico, and the Cayman Islands.
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Turks & Caicos Islands.
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A TIEA between the UK and Bermuda was signed in London on December 4, 2007,
entered into force on November 10, 2008 and took effect from December 4, 2008.
A TIEA and an arrangement amending the 1955 Double Taxation Arrangement between
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into force on April 2, 2009. The provisions of the TIEA also took effect in
the UK and the Isle of Man on April 2, 2009.
A tax information exchange agreement and an agreement for the avoidance of
double taxation of individuals, between the governments of the UK and the British
Virgin Islands were signed in London on October 29, 2008 and laid before the
UK parliament on June 17, 2009 at the same time as TIEAs and treaty amendments
with Guernsey and Jersey.
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