The agreements allow sharing of information between the tax authorities of different countries about a wide range of financial accounts and investments and your account provider may ask you for information to help with this. Who is affected? Mostly people who open or already hold a bank or building society account.
The automatic exchange of information (AEOI) is a standard process developed by the OECD in order to prevent tax evasion. Participating countries share data with one another about taxpayers' bank accounts and securities custody accounts.
AEOI requires participating jurisdictions to obtain information from their financial institutions and automatically exchange that information with other jurisdictions on an annual basis. AEOI became effective in 2016 and has since been implemented by more than 100 jurisdictions.
The AEOI is a tax standard that governs how tax authorities of participating countries exchange information with one another related to taxpayers' foreign bank and safekeeping accounts. The AEOI standard has been developed and published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
AEOI refers to the Automatic Exchange of Information between international tax authorities in an effort to reduce global tax evasion and increase tax transparency. This includes information relating to Financial Accounts, tax rulings, cross-border arrangements, etc.
The Privacy Act of 1974 established the Information Exchange Agreement (IEA). The IEA is a document used when CMS discloses Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Operating Division (OpDiv), another federal agency, or a state agency.