On 24 June 2015 the OECD announced that Mauritius has signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters. The Convention provides a framework for cooperation between tax authorities to exchange tax information, including automatic information exchange and simultaneous tax audits, and to assist each other in tax collection. A total of 87 jurisdictions have now signed this international instrument and Mauritius is the seventh member state of the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) to sign the agreement.