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February 17, 2023

European Union blacklists Virgin Islands, but government pushes back

The European Union placed the Virgin Islands on its blacklist of uncooperative tax jurisdictions on Tuesday, but the VI government quickly responded by suggesting that the territory doesn’t belong on …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
February 10, 2021

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May 26, 2020

New EU rules to combat money laundering

In response to outcry from several countries, the European Commission published a new anti-money-laundering action plan this month and added 12 more countries to its AML blacklist. The addition of …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
February 20, 2020

Virgin Islands makes EU ‘white list’

The Virgin Islands is one of 16 countries and territories newly whitelisted by the European Union on Tuesday, with the reveal of the EU’s revised “white list” of “non-cooperative tax …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
January 20, 2020

Fahie responds to French blacklisting

Premier Andrew Fahie last week responded to the French blacklisting of the Virgin Islands, calling it a “misunderstanding” involving a delay in responding to French requests for tax information that …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
December 12, 2019

France may blacklist Virgin Islands, others

France plans to add the Virgin Islands to a blacklist along with the Seychelles, Anguilla and the Bahamas because they are “not cooperative enough in terms of financial transparency,” French …

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by GENEVIEVE GLATSKY
May 3, 2019

Draft Economic Substance Code “makes the job easier”

In gauging what did and didn’t go in to the hotly anticipated draft Economic Substance Code released last week by the International Tax Authority, some insiders say one need only …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
April 26, 2019

Draft Economic Substance Code released

As financial services professionals meet behind closed doors, trying to make sense of the newly released draft Economic Substance Code, Simon Gray, head of business development and marketing at BVI …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
December 19, 2018

House rushes law to avoid blacklist

In hopes of avoiding a European Union blacklist, the House of Assembly spent several hours in closed-door committee discussions this week to fine-tune the Economic Substance (Companies and Limited Partnerships) …

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by Amanda Ulrich
December 11, 2018

EDITORIAL: With EU blacklist looming, VI has precious little time

It is good news that the government has finally produced a draft law designed to keep the territory off the looming European Union blacklist, but with a deadline of Dec. …

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by The BVI Beacon
October 4, 2018

Government hires UK lawyer in attempt to avoid EU blacklist

The government is paying a tax lawyer in London up to $400,000 to try to derive a legislative solution that will keep the territory off the European Union’s tax-avoidance blacklist …

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by Conor King Devitt

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