The Government of the Cayman Islands and Brazil have signed a tax information exchange agreement.

A reminder that the deadline for FIs to register and report to the Tax Information Authority is two weeks away.

Good news - the DITC in Cayman has extended the CRS reporting deadline to the end of August.

On May 11th 2015, the Cayman Islands Department for International Tax Cooperation announced that Notifications may now be submitted on or before Thursday, 21 May 2015; and that returns may be reported on or before Friday, 12 June 2015.

The Cayman Islands Department of International Tax Cooperation has extended the deadlines for Cayman Reporting Financial Institutions (RFIs) to provide notification and reporting and to the Tax Information Authority for U.S. FATCA Reportable Accounts.

The penal withholding tax provisions of FATCA are making it difficult for US citizens to do business with foreign (non-US) financial institutions

In this Q&A Nigel Porteous and Alex Way provide an overview of private client law and policy as it relates to the law in the Cayman Islands.

On 7 December 2015 the Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority published a list of 95 participating jurisdictions pursuant to The Tax Information Authority (International Tax Compliance) (Common Reporting Standard) Regulations, 2015...

The registration deadline of 31 July, 2017 for both CRS and FATCA registrations has now passed. Financial Institutions that missed the deadline need to focus on completing their registration...

The Cayman Islands Department for International Tax Cooperation has announced updates regarding the AEOI regime.

With the 15 September deadline to appoint a designated US Partner Representative around the corner, do you know who your partnership will choose?

On the 18th February 2020, the European Council (the ‘EC') adopted a revised list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes.

On 6 October 2020, the EU affirmed that it considers the Cayman Islands to be a fully cooperative jurisdiction for tax purposes.

It is greatly disappointing that two of our financial services firms helped US citizens to engage in illegal activity by evading their tax responsibilities.

Reports in the UK suggest a dossier of more than 100 names of people with money here, and other tax free jurisdictions, has been compiled to find those who are avoiding paying tax.

The Minister of Financial Services Wayne Panton and the Ambassador of Belgium signed a tax information exchange agreement on Thursday, 24 April.

The media is advised that the Cayman Islands Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) Portal is open as of 4:15 p.m. on Friday, 20 March 2015.

In a keenly anticipated development the Cayman Islands was removed from the EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions (the "EU blacklist") on 6 October 2020 after adopting reforms relating to...