Luxembourg Chooses Model I FATCA Agreement For Sharing Account Information With the US

We originally posted U.S. Engaging with More than 50 Jurisdictions to Curtail Offshore Tax Evasion on November 8, 2012, where we discussed that the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it is engaged with more than 50 countries and jurisdictions around the world to improve international tax compliance and implement the information reporting and withholding tax provisions commonly known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
 

Luxembourg is one of the largest financial centers, which is built upon bank secrecy laws.  As such, it has come under intense pressure from the EU and the US, in their global effort to crack down on tax evasion.  

Luxembourg has now chosen the Model I FATCA Agreement, which provides for an automatic exchange of information between the Luxembourg and American fiscal authorities on bank accounts held in Luxembourg by citizens and residents of the United States.  

This decision will put Luxembourg’s relations with the US in line with the declaration of 10 April 2013, by which Luxembourg announced that it will introduce, on 1 January 2015 and within the scope of the 2003 EU Savings Directive, the automatic exchange of information within the European Union.

Luxembourg wishes to see the same conditions apply to all competing financial centers and to see the automatic exchange of information accepted as the international standard.

It has therefore agreed on May 14, 2013 to grant the European Commission a mandate to negotiate with Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Monaco and San Marino.

 

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Source: 

Luxembourg Ministry of  Finance