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The failure of the Treasury and HMRC to answer questions about the Panama Papers will alienate our EU partners and further cement London’s reputation for dirty business Tuesday 21 February 2017 16.56 GMT By Prem Sikka Leaked documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca drew attention to UK involvement in tax avoidance and money laundering. Photograph: Arnulfo Franco/AP https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/21/british-snub-eu-investigation-panama-papers-treasury-hmrc -
Just for information purposes. More so-called 'tax havens' have agreed to disclose the bank details of British taxpayers as part of the crackdown on evasion. The deal signed today commits Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands to automatically share information with the UK. The British Overseas Territories will pass on names, addresses, dates of birth, account numbers, account balances and payment details and the move also extends to some accounts held by trusts. They will also share information with other G5 nations - France, Germany, Italy and Spain - as part of an international pilot to clamp down on wealthy banking clients who escape paying taxes by hiding their money overseas. According to the Treasury, the Isle of Man, which was the first non-US jurisdiction to agree to greater exchange of information with the UK, will also extend information to the four other nations involved in the scheme. The move was announced ahead of the UK's presidency of the G8, which Prime Minister David Cameron vowed would see tax transparency as a top priority.
