Guernsey has signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA)
with Greece.
It was signed by Guernsey's Chief Minister, Lyndon Trott and
Ilias Plaskovitis, Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance in
Greece.
Mr Plaskovitis signed the agreement during the Global Forum on
Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, which
took place in Singapore on 29th September. The document
was then transported back to Guernsey by Rob Gray, Guernsey's
Director of Income Tax (who was the Island's delegate at the
Global Forum Meeting), for counter-signature by the Chief Minister
on 8th October.
Guernsey's Chief Minister said: "I am delighted that
Guernsey has signed another international tax agreement with an EU
Member State. I think it is especially symbolic that this agreement
was signed, on behalf of Greece, during the course of the Global
Forum Meeting, as it is the Global Forum that decides the
international standards for exchange of information for
