BARBADIAN TAXPAYERS NEED NOT fear any witchhunt as the island signs on to new international standards that govern the automatic exchange of information among OECD member countries.
Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss gave this assurance on Thursday night as Revenue Commissioner of the Barbados Revenue Authority, Margaret Sivers, signed on behalf of the island in what was described, by Deputy Director of Legal Affairs at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Josee Fecteau, as “the second largest singing ceremony ever of the multi-lateral competent authority agreement which implements the new international standard on the automatic exchange of information”.
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