The OECD has announced that on 10 November 2017, Qatar signed the OECD-Council of Europe Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters as amended by the 2010 protocol. The Convention must now be ratified by Qatar and the ratification instrument deposited before entering into force in the country. Click the following link for the signatories to the Mutual Assistance Convention to date. At the same time, Qatar also signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information, which provides for the exchange of information under the OECD Common Reporting Standard (CRS). Qatar intends to begin...