25/04/2025 (Agence Europe) – Maurice Kouakou Bandaman, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire to France and Monaco, signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters on Wednesday 23 April at OECD headquarters in Paris (see EUROPE 13148/35). Côte d’Ivoire joins the world’s widest-reaching international treaty for international tax co-operation and exchange of information and further strengthens the reach of the Convention in Africa. The signing will pave the way for Côte d’Ivoire to engage in the exchange of information with 149 other jurisdictions. Beyond the exchange of information on request and the automatic exchange pursuant to the Standard, the Convention is also a powerful tool in the fight against illicit financial flows and is a key instrument for the implementation of the transparency standards of the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project. (AD)