OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría welcomed Hungary's steps to strengthen international tax co-operation after it became the 61st signatory to the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.
Hungary's Minister of State for Taxation and Financial Policy Affairs Orbán Gábor signed the Convention during a ceremony at the OECD in Paris.
 
Hungary's signing comes one week before the 21-22 November meeting of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, in Jakarta, Indonesia, at which a number of additional countries and jurisdictions are expected to sign the Convention.
 
The Convention must now be ratified by Hungary.
 
The 61  signatories to the Convention are: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States.
 

Bron: OECD

Informatiesoort: Nieuws

Rubriek: Internationaal belastingrecht

H&I: Actualiteiten

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