The Finance Ministry has announced that the Double Tax Treaty (DTA) between Canada and New Zealand entered into force on 26th June 2015, and that agents of the governments of Canada and the Cook Islands signed a tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) on 15th June 2015.
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