IN a ceremony at OECD Headquarters in Paris today, Burkina Faso, Malaysia,
Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Samoa signed the
Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters,
bringing the number of participating jurisdictions to 103. Mamadou Sangaré,
Ministre Conseiller Chargé d’affaires at the Burkina Faso Embassy to France,
H.E. Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, H.E. Cenio E.
Lewis, High Commissioner of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United
Kingdom, Theresa Penn, Counsellor at the Embassy of Samoa to Belgium, and H.E.
Ibrahim Abdullah, Ambassador of Malaysia to France, signed the Convention on
behalf of their countries in the presence of the OECD Deputy Secretary-General
Mari Kiviniemi.
In
addition, Andorra, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Senegal deposited their
instruments of ratification of the Convention today. As a result, the Convention
will enter into force in each of these jurisdictions on 1 December
2016.
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