The CIS states intend to share information about taxes paid by individuals and businesses, as well as information about the property they own, in an automatic mode. The plans are set out in a draft CIS protocol on the exchange of digital information for the sake of tax administration, BelTA has learned. On 14 September 2018, CIS Economic Council approved the draft protocol during the session in Moscow.

The draft protocol was approved by the CIS Economic Council during the session in Moscow on 14 September. The protocol’s implementation will allow the CIS member states to detect legal and natural persons, who dodge taxes in any CIS member state. If the protocol is signed by the prime ministers, it may be enforced as from 2019. The document has already passed intrastate approval procedures in the CIS member states.