OECD Receives Backing For Historic International Tax Overhaul

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Friday, August 6, 2021

The OECD has said 131 countries and jurisdictions have put their name to an international agreement on an overhaul to tax rules for the digitalized economy and for large multinational businesses. Read Full Story

Caribbean States Appeal To EU Over Tax Blacklisting

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Friday, March 23, 2018

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, a grouping of 15 Caribbean territories, says it is working hard through its Brussels embassy to address EU concerns, which have led to a number of its members being included on a tax blacklist. Read Full Story

IMF Urges Saint Vincent To Broaden The Tax Base

by Lorys Charalambous, Tax-News.com, Cyprus

Thursday, December 21, 2017

The International Monetary Fund has recommended that authorities in the Caribbean territory Saint Vincent and the Grenadines look to broaden the tax base. Read Full Story

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

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

Saint Vincent Plans Deeper Fiscal Consolidation

by Amanda Banks, Tax-News.com, London

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Caribbean territory Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has committed to undertake a more ambitious fiscal consolidation program in recent negotiations with the International Monetary Fund. Read Full Story

Mercosur To Establish New Economic Zone

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Monday, August 4, 2014

Latin American trade bloc Mercosur discussed at its 46th Summit on July 29, 2014, proposals to create an economic zone with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, Petrocaribe, and the Caribbean Community. 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

CARIFORUM FTA A Force For Good, Says EU

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

European Union Ambassador to the Caribbean region, Paola Amadei has sought to dispel misconceptions in relation to the Economic Partnership Agreement concluded to establish a free trade zone between the European Union and the fifteen members of the Caribbean Community and the Dominican Republic in 2008. Read Full Story

Developing Nations Told To Wind Up Tax Schemes

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Thursday, November 1, 2012

The World Trade Organization's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures has granted a final extension to the transitional period - until the end of 2013 - for the removal of tax-based export subsidy programmes by 19 developing countries. Read Full Story

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