Executive summary
On 22 February 2021, the Council of the European Union (the Council) updated the European Union (EU) list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes (the EU List). Annex I (the so-called “black” list) of the EU List now includes American Samoa, Anguilla, Dominica, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Samoa, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, the US Virgin Islands and Vanuatu. This follows from the removal of Barbados and addition of Dominica. As regards Annex II of the EU list (the s…