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1/11/2018 
GRENADA TO BE REMOVED FROM EU BLACKLIST  
Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell says Grenada is expected to be removed from the European Union Blacklist by the end of January. The decision to remove Grenada, one of 17 countries blacklisted by the EU, is expected to follow a meeting of the Financial and Economic Unit of the OECD set for January 23. “I gave it up because I felt angered by the behavior of a couple of our leaders in the region ". On December 5, the Council approved and published conclusions containing an EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions in taxation matters. It said Grenada did not sign or ratify the OECD Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance as amended and did not clearly commit to addressing these issues by December 31, 2018. However, Prime Minister Mitchell says in any serious and objective situation, Grenada ought not to have been placed on the list initially, since the country has met all the conditions required. “On January 23rd the Financial and Economic Unit of the OECD will be meeting after the response from Grenada and of course we pointed out the mistakes that were made,” Mitchell said, adding that the island will be removed from the list – “So I think we would have gone through that process successfully”. The Ministry of Finance had issued a statement saying Grenada made high level commitments, complete with timelines, to the EU Code of Conduct group by way of letters on November 17 and 28, 2017. Grenada's commitments were in response to concerns raised by the OECD group regarding meeting all the criteria set up by the EU Council for Transparency and fairness in Taxation, and was well on track to doing so. Mitchell said it was accepted that the decision was unfair. “But the specific case of Grenada, we had asked for some communications sent to us so that we would move and deal with what we are supposed to do,” the Prime Minister said. “And they took a very long time to send it, so since the black list came on they have sent the information and we then replied and like I said before the end of the month from indication in correspondent received last week. We expect to be release from that black list”. Source: ja observer
 

 


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GRENADA TO BE REMOVED FROM EU BLACKLIST  
As a reminder to some of our Grenadians who whenever our country is in the headline for all the wrong reasons,and as soon as Mitchell goes away and come back and says ah fit it one should step back and wait for as the record will now show our little country grenada is still in hot water if one reads the latest information coming from the E.U. Tax evasion monitoring bodies where Grenada is still on that black list and have not been cleared as was previously stated by government due to transparency and accountability.
80By: gabe
3/5/2018 12:02:58 PM