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Hong Kong and Ireland Sign a Comprehensive Double Taxation Agreement

June 24, 2010

Hong Kong signed a Comprehensive Double Taxation Agreement (“CDTA”) with Ireland on June 22, 2010.  This is Hong Kong’s 13th CDTA.
Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury, Professor Chan commented that “the agreement will encourage Hong Kong enterprises to leverage on the success of Irish companies in the [...]

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Hong Kong Concludes Two More CDTAs

May 17, 2010

The Inland Revenue Department signed comprehensive double taxation agreements with Hungary and Kuwait on May 13, 2010.  This takes to 10 the number of comprehensive double taxation agreements that Hong Kong has signed.  With agreements having been reached with a number of other countries, including Austria, France, Ireland, Japan, Switzerland [...]

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Exchange of Information Bill Introduced into LEGCO

July 28, 2009

The adoption of the more liberal OECD 2004 Exchange of Information Article (“AOI”) moved a step closer following the introduction of the Inland Revenue (Amendment) (No.3) Bill 2009 into the Legislative Council on 8th July 2009.
In case you are not familiar with the impact of this article it provides that;
“The competent authorities of the Contracting [...]

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Hong Kong is NOT a Tax Haven

April 20, 2009

The Government has clearly stated that it will enact legislation to amend the Inland Revenue Ordinance in order to allow the Inland Revenue Department to share information with overseas tax authorities, in other words acceding to the demands of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to sign up to international agreements facilitating tax [...]

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