{"id":7218,"date":"2015-06-11T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sccblog\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2015-10-14T15:59:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:29:47","slug":"agreement-signed-for-automatic-exchange-of-financial-account-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2015\/06\/11\/agreement-signed-for-automatic-exchange-of-financial-account-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement signed for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p ><span lang=\"EN-US\">On 03.06.2015, <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">India<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> joined the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in a signing ceremony held in <st1:city w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Paris<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. The objective of the agreement is to exchange information on an automatic basis a<span>s per the new global standards on automatic exchange of information, known as Common Reporting Standards (CRS) on Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI), which obliges treaty partners to exchange wide range of financial information in their country\/jurisdictions including information about the ultimate controlling persons and beneficial owners of entities.<span> The agreement <\/span>would enable <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">India<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> to receive information from almost every country in the world including offshore financial centres, to prevent international tax evasion and avoidance and to receive information about assets of Indians held abroad. 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