Channel Islands Brussels Office (CIBO)

EU Finance Ministers (ECOFIN) today confirmed that Guernsey and Jersey are cooperative jurisdictions with respect to tax good governance. ECOFIN endorsed the assessment of the European Commission and the EU’s Code of Conduct Group on Business Taxation (CoCG) that Guernsey and Jersey had met their commitments to address concerns raised …

For almost a decade, payments in euros across Europe  (e.g. bank transfers and direct debits) have been reliable, simple, quick and inexpensive thanks to the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) schemes rules which underpin such transactions.  The European Payments Council (EPC) is the private sector body which manages the SEPA …

The Chief Minister of Guernsey, Deputy Gavin St Pier, and the Minister for External Relations of Jersey, Senator Ian Gorst, visited Brussels on 24-25 January as part of the regular political engagement by the Channel Islands with the EU Institutions. Their programme, organised by CIBO, included meetings with the Permanent …