Bahamas, Malta Sign Tax Agreement

By: - January 19th, 2012

Above: The High Commissioners of the Bahamas and Malta sign the agreement (BIS Photo/

By the Caribbean Journal staff

The governments of the Bahamas and Malta signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement during a ceremony in London yesterday.

Bahamian High Commissioner to the Court of St James Paul Farquharson and Malta’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Joseph Zammit Tabonato, signed on behalf of their governments.

It is the 29th such tax information agreement signed by the Bahamas.

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