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European parliament agrees to add British overseas territories to post-Brexit tax haven blacklist
25/01/2021
MEPs have voted to add British overseas territories such as the British Virgin Islands, Guernsey, and Jersey to its post-Brexit tax havens blacklist.
UK overseas territories such as Cayman Islands also may lose protection once afforded by UK’s EU membership.
Listing sends signal that turning Britain into a low-tax island ‘will not be acceptable to the EU’.
Decision on British overseas territory comes less than two weeks after UK left bloc.
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