The Hong Kong government announced that a competent authority agreement (CAA) for the exchange of financial account information in tax matters (AEOI) from 2018 has been signed with New Zealand on 14 July 2017. With this latest agreement, Hong Kong’s network of bilateral CAAs relating to the exchange of financial account information now covers 14 jurisdictions. The other jurisdictions are: Belgium, Canada, Guernsey, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, So…