
From September 2023, Moldova will exchange financial account data with 108 jurisdictions.
This is provided for by the Multilateral Agreement on the automatic exchange of information on financial accounts between competent authorities, the ratification of which the government approved at a meeting on Wednesday. The agreement will provide tax authorities with access to information on foreign bank accounts of Moldovan citizens. According to the head of the Ministry of Finance Dumitru Budianschi, the agreement signed by Moldova on October 29, 2014 in Berlin will allow the competent authorities of the country to exchange information with 108 jurisdictions that have signed the agreement in order to identify individuals or legal entities that evade declaring income and paying taxes by transferring money to accounts abroad. Thanks to this exchange of financial information, the State Tax Service will have a general idea of the funds held in the foreign accounts of Moldovan residents. The exchange of information will be carried out in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Personal Data, it will become an important tool for reducing the shadow economy, counteracting illegal capital flows abroad and an additional source of revenue collection from the budget. The ratification of the multilateral agreement on the automatic exchange of information between competent authorities on financial accounts is due to the need for Moldova to move closer to international standards for the exchange of information for tax purposes after Moldova joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes in November 2016. All countries that have signed the document will equally cover the costs of the secretariat of the Coordinating Body for the implementation of the agreement. As the head of the Ministry of Finance noted, preliminary we are talking about 8 thousand euros, they will be allocated annually from the budget of the State Tax Service. // 26.01.2022 — InfoMarket