On 27 March 2024, the German Official Gazette published a regulation that revises the list of jurisdictions involved in the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) for exchanging country-by-country (CbC) reports. The regulation comes into force and becomes effective on 28 March 2024.
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