This is the best bit as far as I'm concerned:
We underline the importance of comprehensive tax information exchange and encourage work in the Global Forum to define the means to improve it.
But since they're asking the OECD to do this and they are not committed to automatic information exchange which is the only way in which such exchange can be comprehensive I have little hope.
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Do not forget, Richard: the OECD is its member states, ie UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, USA, France and so on. So calling upon the OECD is basically calling on the industrial countries themselves.
There are a 105 member states of the Global Forum and the UN has observer status. Not just an OECD party!
it is run by OECD
You are wrong
Best you can do – wrong?
1. All 105 member states have equal standing – read the most recent information brief (which was issued last week!!!)
2. The Steering Committee has more non-OECD members on it than OECD members.
So just how is it run by the OECD and why exactly is the UN participating if it is run by the OECD?
Come on, stick with the facts.
Oh come on
Look at where the power is, where the funding is and where the secretariat are
This is a wholes structure designed to preserve OECD preference for information exchange in request
That’s the be all and en all of it