By Ronald Sanders The Caribbean regional integration project is often described and criticized almost entirely on the uneven benefits of trade to member countries. But, important...
Financial institutions in Jamaica will for the first time, from next month, have to report specified financial account information on American citizens who have accounts in...
The Governor of the Bank of Barbados DeLisle Worrell has revealed that new challenges such as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) are affecting the...
Over the past few years, financial institutions have been preparing for the new reporting requirements for United States clients which form part of the Foreign Account...
Barbados International Business Minister, Donville Inniss recently announced that the Freundel Stuart administration and the United States have agreed to start negotiations with respect to an...
The Perry Christie administration in the Bahamas says the country is well advanced in finalizing the compliance arrangements with regards to the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance...
The Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will put pressure on offshore companies seeking to do business in the Caribbean, says Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart....
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank has established a working group to ensure that financial institutions which operate within the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) are prepared...
The Bahamas Ministry of Financial Services will be hosting a workshop on the United States’ Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) on April 9-10, 2013 in...
The move will have far reaching implications and may adversely affect the growth of the financial centers in the Caribbean. The United States Department of the...
Government officials in The Bahamas have revealed that they are reviewing the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in a move that suggests that the...
The Barbados Central Bank has revealed that a Working Group to negotiate an inter-governmental agreement (IGA) with the United States within the next six months to...
A leaked document has revealed that Britain plans to impose its own version of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) on its overseas territories,...
Caribbean Export Development Agency head Pamela Coke-Hamilton has expressed concern over the burden the forthcoming Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is placing on the region’s...
Barbados has set up a select committee to determine whether the country should enter an intergovernmental agreement with the United States government on the Foreign Account...
Jamaican bankers and financial stakeholders lobbying the Jamaican government to take on a US tax compliance rule, which require them to release client information to American...
Jamaica is now the the latest jurisdiction to raise the possibility of concluding a bilateral agreement with the United States to implement the Foreign Account Tax...
Regional banking institutions have expressed concern over the likely consequences for banking in the region over US legislation that could lead to capital flight, loss of...
(Jamaica Observer) Thousands of Jamaicans will have their personal financial information released to American authorities if local banks sign on to a new tax compliance agreement...