The OECD has announced that on 12 May 2017, Lebanon signed the OECD-Council of Europe Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters as amended by the 2010 protocol, as well as the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information. The same day, Lebanon deposited the ratification instrument for the Convention, which will enter into force for the country on 1 September 2017. With regard to financial account information exchange, Lebanon intends to begin the first exchange by September 2018. Click the following link for the signatories to the Mutual Assistance Convention to date.