CARICOM, Cuba Expand Free Trade Deal

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Friday, November 10, 2017

The Caribbean Community countries and Cuba on November 9 signed a Second Protocol to an Agreement that will expand tax-free access to each other's markets for goods. Read Full Story

Enhanced US Tax Relief Urged For Dominican Apparel Exports

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Friday, October 6, 2017

Eight years after its implementation, the Earned Import Allowance Program is not providing enough incentives to significantly boost Dominican apparel exports to the US market, says the US International Trade Commission. Read Full Story

OECD Global Forum Adds Four To Its Ranks

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Friday, September 8, 2017

Greenland, Cambodia, Madagascar, and Haiti have joined the OECD's Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes. Read Full Story

IMF Reports On CARICOM Tax Reform Efforts

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Caribbean Community member states have benefitted from the introduction of value-added taxes, but more reform is needed, says a new paper from the International Monetary Fund. Read Full Story

10 IGAs Join 'In Substance' FATCA List Just Before July 1

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Monday, July 7, 2014

Ten further foreign jurisdictions were included by the United States Treasury in its latest monthly list, issued on July 1, 2014, as having reached agreements in substance on June 30, 2014, on the terms of intergovernmental agreements under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. Read Full Story

IMF Urges Caribbean To Cooperate, Not Compete

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has told Caribbean states that they can make their territories more competitive by working together on tax policy and by making tax incentives more transparent. Read Full Story

Help Improve Fragile Tax Systems, OECD Tells Donors

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has accused international donors of failing to do enough to help "fragile" states increase their domestic revenue. Read Full Story

CARICOM Change Team Pleased With Guyana Consultations

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, New York

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The Change Facilitation Team based at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has expressed satisfaction at the response by participants at the Guyana national consultations on a Five-year Strategic Plan for the trade bloc. Read Full Story

US, CARICOM Sign TIFA

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Friday, May 31, 2013

On May 28, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Vice President Joe Biden and Haitian President Michel Martelly signed a trade and investment framework agreement, which will provide for a forum to discuss specific trade issues between the United States and the Caribbean Community. Read Full Story

US-Antigua Spat Rumbles On At WTO Headquarters

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

True to their word, nations of the Caribbean Community rallied behind Antigua and Barbuda, at the recent meeting with the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body, in support of the territory's calls for the United States to cooperatively agree a meaningful compensation package for Antigua and Barbuda in relation to a WTO ruling against US legislation prohibiting the provision of overseas online gambling services. Read Full Story

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