TRINIDAD & TOBAGO BANKING BODY NOW WANTS 2017 BILL PASSED TO REPAIR COUNTRY’S TAX REPUTATION
May 1st, 2019
Trinidad & Tobago has a problem regarding tax transparency, one that its financial sector and government want to go away. The Caribbean twin-island state remains the only country that is a member of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes Global Forum that is listed as totally non-compliant with its rules - see https://www.oecd.org/tax/transparency/exchange-of-information-on-request/ratings/. It has also been blacklisted by the European Union (EU) as a tax haven that flouts EU tax haven standards.
As a result, the ...
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