30/09/2021 (Agence Europe) – As expected (see EUROPE 12800/15), the Ecofin Council, which will meet on Tuesday 5 October in Luxembourg, will formally remove three third countries - Anguilla, Dominica and the Seychelles - from the European Union’s ‘blacklist’ of non-cooperative jurisdictions and third countries for tax purposes. The item was approved without debate on Wednesday 29 September at the meeting of Member States’ ambassadors to the EU. These three third countries will become part of the ‘grey’ list of countries or jurisdictions that have made commitments to automatic exchange of tax information. American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, the US Virgin Islands and Vanuatu will remain on the ‘blacklist’. Although Turkey has not met all the requirements put to it, it will still be on the EU’s ‘grey’ list. (MB)