Singapore and Switzerland Sign Competent Authority Agreement for Exchange of Tax Information

The Swiss government announced that in the margins of a Global Forum meeting in Geneva, Swiss Ambassador Alexander Karrer, deputy secretary of state of the SIF, and Singapore Deputy Commissioner of the Inland Revenue Authority Mrs. Huey Min Chia-Tern signed a bi-lateral automatic exchange of information agreement in tax matters (AEOI). This agreement was signed on 17 July 2017 and will be applied provisionally from January 1, 2018 with the first exchange of data in 2019. The agreement is subj…