Nick Shaxson ■ Update: report on the OECD’s information exchange standard

Update: report on the OECD’s information exchange standard

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25 November 2014

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A month ago we published a preliminary report entitled ‘The end of bank secrecy?’Bridging the gap to effective automatic information exchange, looking at the OECD’s new system of automatic information exchange.

We have now completed our final technical analysis of the report. It is not very different from the preliminary version: the main updates are to the timeline section and the main Annex about the signatories to the multilateral agreement (M-CAA) and commitments by others to join AIE later, following the G20 summit of world leaders in Australia this month and an earlier meeting in Berlin.

The new report is here, and will replace the old version in our reports section.

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Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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Comments • 1

Jo Marie Griesgraber
February 6, 2015 - 2:42 pm
This report is brilliant and singularly useful The Introduction gives the substance and only approach the rest with great respect and trepidation–it is great, but intimidating!

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