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Sri Lanka joins Global Forum as 173rd member
Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka
|September 20, 2025
Sri Lanka has taken steps to fight tax evasion and other illicit financial flows, becoming the 173rd member and 23rd Asian member of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (Global Forum).
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Like all other members, Sri Lanka will participate in the Global Forum on an equal footing and is committed to combatting offshore tax evasion through the implementation of the internationally agreed standards of transparency and exchange of information on request and automatic exchange of information.
The members of the Global Forum include all G20 countries, all OECD members, all international financial centres and a majority of the developing countries.
This story is from the September 20, 2025 edition of Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka.
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