French Finance Minister François Baroin and Budget Minister Valérie
Pécresse have recently updated the country’s ‘black
list’ of countries deemed to be ‘uncooperative’ in tax matters.
The Sub-Committee on Least Developed Countries, on January 20, agreed to start
work on developing recommendations to “further strengthen, streamline and operationalize”
current guidelines on the accession process of LDCs, as called for in a decision
by the Eighth WTO Ministerial Conference last month.
India is playing a major role in the global crusade against black money and has completed negotiations for 16 new tax information exchange agreements, according to the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes M C Joshi.
The UK has begun its ratification process of three tax information exchange agreements, with Aruba, Liberia and the former Netherlands Antilles islands.
The Liberian Registry has welcomed its admittance by the United States Coast Guard
on its QUALSHIP 21 programme for 2011/12, making the territory one of twenty which the US considers maintain the highest standards of safety and quality.
Complete search and rescue cover around Africa’s coast was secured on March 3 with the signing of an ad-hoc multilateral cooperative agreement on the North and West African sub-regional Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, which establishes a new base in Morocco, the International Maritime Organization announced.
The Liberian Shipping Registry has carried out the first Seafarer Recruitment and Placement Services audit for compliance with the International Labour Organization Maritime Labour Convention, ahead of the convention's entry into force.
The Liberian International Ship and Corporate Registry, the US-based manager of the Liberian Registry, has appointed a new general manager to its dedicated office in London, with effect from August 2, 2010.
China’s Ministry of Commerce has announced that, following an
exchange of letters, 60% of imports from 26 of Africa’s least developed
countries are duty free with effect from July 1, 2010.
The Dutch government has united on plans put forward recently by Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees De Jager to conclude tax
information exchange agreements with Uruguay, Mauritius and Brunei, in a
further endeavour to combat tax evasion.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has developed a new approach to negotiating tax information exchange agreements involving multilateral negotiations, in order to assist developing countries with resource constraints.
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