The European finance ministers will add three countries to the list of non-cooperative jurisdictions in taxation matters, at their monthly meeting on Tuesday 13 March. The countries in question are St Kitts and Nevis, the Bahamas and the US Virgin Islands.
These countries are among eight jurisdictions hit by natural disaster last year. They were therefore given extra time to send in their commitments. The countries in question were Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the US Virgin Islands. According to our information, ahead of the meeting of the permanent representatives of the member states to the EU, only the US Virgin Islands had yet to send in its letter of commitments. The others were therefore expected to be placed on the "grey list" of countries presenting problems, but which have made commitments to resolve them.
The EU finance ministers are, on the other hand, expected to take Bahrain, the Marshall Islands and St Lucia off the blacklist on Tuesday 13 March. (Original version in French by Élodie Lamer)