INTERNATIONAL TAX PLANNING IN A WORLD OF GLOBAL TRANSPARENCY

On 15 July 2014, the OECD published the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters, also known as the Common Reporting Standard or CRS. Since then 102 jurisdictions have committed to commence exchange of information on non-residents bank accounts in 2017 or 2018. Unfortunately, Ukraine is not in the list of the countries participating in the exchange. With exchanges under the CRS, having now commenced amongst almost 50 jurisdictions there has been a major shift in international tax transparency and the ability of jurisdictions to tackle offshore tax evasion. This article studies the influence of the automatic exchange of financial information on the global tax transparency and international tax planning trends.