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 13118/8). 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 regime. These four countries join American Samoa, Anguilla, the Bahamas, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, Vanuatu, the US Virgin Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Aruba, Belize, Curaçao, and Qatar have been put on the European ‘grey’ list of jurisdictions that have made commitments on good tax governance. These lists will be revised again in October. To consult them: https://aeur.eu/f/5bm (AD)