14/02/2023 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday, 14 February, the Ecofin Council adopted the revised EU ‘blacklist’ of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, adding the British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, the Marshall Islands, and Russia to the list (see EUROPE B13118A8). Swedish Minister for Finance Elisabeth Svantesson commented, “[There] is not a political reason” behind the addition of Russia. Moscow has not fulfilled its commitment to change its harmful preferential tax...