Cayman Islands Issue OECD Common Reporting Standard Penalty Regulations
By Tim Clipstone, Christopher Capewell, Tim Dawson, Tim Frawley, Patrick Head, Martin Livingston, Alasdair Robertson, James Turner, Tahir Jawed, Andrew Quinn, Richard Grasby, Harjit Kaur, Michael Gagie From Maples and Calder The Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority (International Tax Compliance)…
Cayman Islands Minister: ‘Critical errors’ in Oxfam Report
Minister of Financial Services Wayne Panton encouraged the public to notice the critical errors made by Oxfam in developing a list of ‘tax havens’ for their ‘Tax Battles: The Dangerous Global Race to the Bottom on Corporate Tax’ report. ‘Once…
OECD raises outlook for global growth on expected Trump stimulus
From Newsmax The OECD lifted its global growth forecasts for 2017 and predicted expansion in 2018 will reach its fastest pace in half a decade as Donald Trump’s planned fiscal stimulus provides a boost to major economies. World gross domestic…
Countries with best quality of life
11 countries with the best quality of life in the world By Leanna Garfield From Business Insider The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently released its 2016 Better Life Index of countries with the best quality of life….
New report says regional GDP will shrink in 2016
From Long Beach City College Viking CARTEGENA, (CMC) – A new joint report by the Development Center of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Development…
Bahamas denies ‘go-slow’ approach to tax data sharing
By K. Quincy Parker Nassau Guardian Business Editor From Caribbean News Now NASSAU, Bahamas — The Bahamas has rejected outright an attack by UK publication The Economist, which claims The Bahamas’ choice to implement automatic exchange of information (AEOI) through bilateral…
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Sanders: The US and the EU in harmful tax competition
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean News Now Over the last few weeks, a trans-Atlantic war of words has been going on between the US Treasury and the European Union Commission (EC) over what amounts to ‘harmful tax competition’. That’s…
BARCLAYS: A lot of pros are getting these 5 things wrong about the oil industry
By Akin Oyedele From Business Insider Barclays would like to clarify a few things about crude oil production. In a note to clients on Wednesday, Michael Cohen, the head of energy commodities research, wrote that the central story of the…
Politicians and the Panama Papers
By José Niño From Cayman Financial Review The recent Panama Papers leak has brought tax havens to the forefront of public policy discussions. Naturally, many individuals and supranational entities have advocated for more stringent regulations on tax havens and tougher…
Letter to FT From Anthony Travers May 16 2016
From Financial Times UK Sir, Toby Quantrill of Christian Aid (“UK can take lead on regulation of tax havens”, May 12) seeks to perpetuate an unsustainable myth. A cursory review of the publicly available information would have revealed the true…
