04/10/2022 (Agence Europe) – Gathered in Luxembourg on Tuesday, 4 October, the Ecofin Council decided to add Anguilla, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands to the EU’s blacklist of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes (see EUROPE 13029/16). These three countries thus join American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, Vanuatu, and the US Virgin Islands. “I believe all 12 countries on the list will deliver on their commitments and carry out the necessary reforms in the field of taxation as soon as possible so that they can be deleted from this list when we will next revise it in 6 months’ time”, commented Czech Minister of Finance Zbyněk Stanjura in a press release. As for the EU’s ‘grey’ list of jurisdictions that have made commitments with respect to good tax governance, Armenia and Eswatini have been added, but Tunisia has been removed. (AD)