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<p>The UK has around 150 tax treaties and tax information exchange agreements with
other countries around the world, including with all of the Crown Dependencies and
Overseas Territories.</p><p>HMRC is the body responsible for exchanging tax information
under international treaties. HMRC routinely exchanges information which is relevant
to tax investigations, including information about the beneficial ownership of companies
and property.</p><p>Last year, HMRC made 1,096 requests of other tax administrations,
and received 2,015 requests.</p><p>HMRC also automatically receives financial account
information about UK taxpayers under the Common Reporting Standard. This year we received
information from almost 50 jurisdictions and this will rise to over 100 jurisdictions
next year.</p><p>Tax treaties and other exchange of information instruments under
which exchanges take place have strict confidentiality requirements. This means that
the UK cannot provide a breakdown of numbers of requests in relation to particular
jurisdictions.</p>
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