Executive summary
On 6 October 2020, the Council of the European Union (the Council or ECOFIN) updated the European Union (EU) list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes (the EU List).
The Council decided, by written procedure, to remove the Cayman Islands and Oman and add Anguilla and Barbados to Annex I (the so-called “Black” list) of the EU List as these jurisdictions did not implement the tax reforms to which they had committed by the agreed deadline. The total number of jurisdicti…