Today the Commission presented an [Action Plan](http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/company_tax/fairer_corporate_taxation/index_en.htm) to fundamentally reform corporate taxation in the EU. The Action Plan sets out a series of initiatives to tackle tax avoidance, secure sustainable … Read More
Emerging Energy Services Fund Listed on Exchange
Open-ended Investment Fund Emerging Energy Services Fund Ltd has completed the BISX Mutual Fund Listing Process and has been added to the roster of funds listed on the Exchange. [The … Read More
Permanent Mission to UN & Other International Bodies
Today in Switzerland the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie, Prime Minister of The Bahamas, spoke at the official opening of The Bahamas’ Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office and … Read More
Global Fight against Terrorist Financing
The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units released a statement today on the global fight against terrorist financing. Preventing terrorists, including foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs), from abusing the global financial … Read More
Financial Services Keeping Up with International Best Practices
Minister of Financial Services the Hon. Hope Strachan said international best practices are evolving at a rapid pace, particularly as it relates to automatic tax exchange initiatives, tax transparency, anti-money … Read More
New Countries Join the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA)
##Boost for International Efforts to Strengthen Cooperation Against Offshore Tax Evasion## The OECD reports that seven new countries have joined the agreement to exchange information automatically under the OECD/G20 standard. … Read More
Ministry of Financial Services Contributing to a Modern Bahamas
The Hon. C.V. Hope Strachan, M.P., Minister of Financial Services, today contributed to the 2015 2016 Budget discussions in Parliament. Noting that her Ministry has responsibility to ensure the continued … Read More
El Salvador Signs Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters
[El Salvador](http://www.oecd.org/ctp/el-salvador-joins-international-efforts-to-fight-offshore-tax-evasion.htm) today signed the [Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters](http://www.oecd.org/ctp/exchange-of-tax-information/conventiononmutualadministrativeassistanceintaxmatters.htm), becoming the 86th signatory to the most comprehensive instrument for boosting international co-operation against offshore tax … Read More
China-Bahamas Air Travel
Bahamas Minister of Transport and Aviation the Hon. Glenys Hanna-Martin and Li Jiaxiang, Chief of the Civil Aviation Administration of China yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to allow for … Read More
New Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality Takes Up its Mandate
Yesterday, the Standards Council of the Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality held its inaugural meeting at its new offices at Source River Centre, Bacardi Road. At the inaugural meeting … Read More