Improving Access to Bank Information for Tax Purposes

This Report was prepared by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs to consider ways to improve international co-operation with respect to the exchange of information in the possession of banks and other financial institutions for tax purposes.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autores Corporativos: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Committee on Fiscal Affairs, Content Provider (content provider)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2000.
Colección:Taxation (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CONTENTS; Chapter I Overview and Measures to Improve Accessto Bank Information for Tax Purposes; A. Overview; B. Measures to improve access to bank information for tax purposes; Chapter II Bank Secrecy - Traditional and New Dimensions; The importance of bank secrecy; The effects of bank secrecy on tax administration and law enforcement; Globalisation and Liberalisation of Financial Markets; Electronic Commerce and Electronic Money; Money Laundering and Tax Crimes; Chapter III Adverse Implications of Lack of Accessto Bank Information for Tax Purposes; Adverse Domestic Implications
  • Adverse International ImplicationsChapter IV Country Practices and Evolution: An Executive Summary; Legal basis for bank secrecy; Exceptions to bank secrecy; Bank account information requirements; Means of removing funds from accounts; Access to bank information for tax administration purposes; Exchange of information under tax treaties; Other instruments or mechanisms for exchanging bank informationfor tax purposes; Information reporting by taxpayers; Interest income: Use of withholding at source to tax interest payments; Trends concerning access to bank information
  • Proposals to change laws relating to bank secrecyConclusions to be drawn from current practices; Annex I Foreign Assets and Liabilities; Appendix I Survey of Country Practices on Accessto Bank Information for Tax Purposes; General Information about Bank Secrecy; The Obligation of Banks to Give Information in Mattersother than Taxation; Access to Bank Information for Tax Administrations; Obligation for Resident Taxpayers to Declaretheir Bank Accounts Abroad; Country Practice with Respect to Exchange of Bank Informationwith Treaty Partners; Regarding Trends Concerning Access to Bank Information