(August 25, 2015)

On August 25, 2015 an informal working meeting between German-speaking finance ministers took place in Salzburg. It was organized by the Austrian Minister of Finance (Hans Jörg Schelling), who invited the German Minister of Finance (Wolfang Schäuble), the Swiss Federal Councilor (Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf), the Luxembourg Minister of Finance (Pierre Gramegna) and the Liechtenstein Minister of Finance (Adrian Hasler).

According to press releases issued by the different Ministries of Finance, the topics discussed at the meeting included a.o. the current status of the OECD talks on new international rules for the taxation of internationally operating companies and the implementation of the global standard for the automatic exchange of information in tax matters.

Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Switzerland have already issued press releases with respect to the meeting. A video of a joint press conference is attached to the press release as issued by the Austrian Ministry of Finance, which is the most extensive press release issued in this respect.

Below we provide links to the press releases issued by the respective Ministries of Finance:

·         Austria

·         Luxembourg

·         Liechtenstein

·         Switzerland (German, English, French and Italian).

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