Mauritius ready to sign tax info exchange pact with India

17 May 2013 Evaluate

Mauritius, the nation from where India receives maximum foreign investments, is ready to sign a new Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with India, which would help the two countries to exchange information on tax matters of the entities doing business in the two countries. Beside this, both the countries are working on a new Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) and progress has been made on various fronts.

Mauritius’s finance secretary Ali Mansoor said that a joint working group has been set up for revision of the DTAA and Mauritius has taken a number of steps within and outside the provisions of pact to address India's concerns over possible money laundering activities through Mauritius. By adding further, he said that a pact has been signed between market regulators of two countries, SEBI and Financial Services Commission (FSC) by which Indian auditors have been allowed to come and check the books of entities operating from Mauritius. 

Recently, there have been concerns that Mauritius is being used for money laundering and round tripping of illicit funds as it accounts for almost half of the foreign money coming into India. Further, concerns related to Mauritius based entities coming to light in some cases of corruption and alleged tax evasion, which were suspected to have been set up by Indian entities to dodge the tax authorities in India.

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