Today, at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, the Hon Colm Imbert MP, Minister of Finance of Trinidad and Tobago signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters (the Convention), bringing the total number of jurisdictions that participate in the Convention to 149.

By today’s signing, Trinidad and Tobago joins the world’s widest reaching international treaty for international tax co-operation and exchange of information and further strengthens the reach of the Convention in the Caribbean. The signing will pave the way for Trinidad and Tobago to engage in the exchange of information with 148 other jurisdictions, including all major financial centres. These exchange relationships will be added to the over 8000 exchange relationships already in place under the Convention.