Uganda commits to start automatic exchange of financial account information by 2023
Exchange of information
17/02/2021 – Uganda has committed to implement the international Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters (AEOI) by 2023. The commitment made by the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, the honorable Matia Kasaija, makes Uganda the 116
Maria José Garde, Chair of the Global Forum, said “I am delighted to welcome Uganda’s commitment to the AEOI Standard. As for the 115 other committed jurisdictions, the Global Forum will monitor Uganda’s progress in delivering its commitment to start exchanging automatically by September 2023 and updates will be provided to our members and the G20. The Global Forum Secretariat will assist Uganda in implementing the Standard and in addressing any challenges that may arise”.
Mumbai: Mauritius continues to be on the receiving end of regulatory flip-flops in India with a fresh blow coming from the Reserve Bank of India(RBI). Last week the banking regulator came out with a diktat saying no entity coming from a non-Financial Action Task Force (FATF) jurisdiction can hold more than 20% of voting rights in a non-banking financial company (NBFC). This would directly impact the investments coming from Mauritius since the island nation has been put on the ‘Grey List’ of FATF.
This stance taken by RBI is in steep contrast with that of what the central government did last year. In June 2020, the Finance Ministry brought out a circular giving special dispensation to Mauritius based funds in terms of foreign portfolio investor (FPI) licenses.
The FATF, during its virtual plenary in October last year, concluded that Pakistan will continue in its grey list till February 2021 as it has failed to fulfil six key obligations of the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog that include failure to take action against two of India s most wanted terrorists Maulana Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed.
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Sun Online Desk
17th February, 2021 09:27:49
It is February Pakistan will again be making a pitch for removal from the ignominious Grey List of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
In 2018, the country was placed in the list of “jurisdictions under increased monitoring”, more popularly known as the Grey List and was given an Action Plan comprising 27 Action Items for compliance pertaining to prosecutions, money laundering, terrorism financing, and targeted financial sanctions to choke the flow of funds to designated terrorist organizations, terrorists and their associates.
Some of these required Pakistan to make legislative and procedural changes while others required it to show demonstrative action against these entities.