Nigeria signs up to Multilateral BEPS Convention and Common Reporting Standard Agreement
Nigeria recently signed both the multilateral convention (MLI) and the multilateral competent authority agreement under the common reporting standard (CRS) and thus becomes the 71st jurisdiction to sign the MLI and the 94th jurisdiction to join the CRS MCAA.
The MLI is a legal instrument designed to prevent base erosion and profit shifting by multinational enterprises. The CRS MCAA is a multilateral competent authority agreement, which aims to implement the automatic exchange of financial account information and to deliver the automatic exchange of CRS information between 101 jurisdictions by 2018.