La Dian signed an information exchange agreement for tax purposes

In the middle of the plenary meeting number 15 of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, Colombia accepted two multilateral agreements with which it seeks to facilitate the automatic exchange of information between the authorities of 22 countries, in order to combat tax evasion and avoidance.

(See: Will the tax reform calm the market?: this says the director of the Dian).

These are the ‘Multilateral Agreement of Competent Authorities on Automatic Exchange of Derived Income Information through Digital Platforms’ and the ‘Multilateral Agreement of Competent Authorities on Automatic Exchange Concerning CRS Circumvention Agreements and Opaque Offshore Structures’ .

This Forum, which It was founded in 2000 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), was the head of the international tax office of the Directorate of National Taxes and Customs (Dian), who was responsible for formalizing the agreements in the city of Seville (Spain).

(See: Step by step to get the RUT digitally and without lines).

As the Dian announced through a statement, the signing of the agreements was reached after several years of work and “These agreements represent a very important advance for Colombia in its objective of maintaining the fight against tax evasion and avoidance”.

In addition, the agreements are added to other international commitments that the country previously acquired in 2017 in exchange of tax information, under the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.

(See: Gross collection reached $176.76 billion in September).

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