Channel Islands Brussels Office (CIBO)

On 12 October the Commission published an online update of information supplied by Member States about their national tax lists. The information is now portrayed on the DG TAXUD website as an interactive map under the title  “Tax good governance in the world as seen by EU countries” .  Commenting on the …

On 24 July, the Director General of DG TAXUD, Mr Heinz Zourek, invited  representatives of the jurisdictions included in the Commission’s 17 June “pan-EU list” to a meeting. Steve Williams represented Guernsey, as one of the jurisdictions included on this list. In a constructive and forward looking discussion, the Commission confirmed …

The Guernsey Chief Minister today welcomed the statements by the OECD that underlined Guernsey’s reputation as a cooperative jurisdiction. This follows the erroneous and wholly unjustified inclusion of Guernsey in a list published by the European Commission on 17 June, as part of it Action Plan on Corporate Taxation, which …