Prevention of Treaty Abuse – Second Peer Review Report on Treaty Shopping

San Marino

A. Progress in the implementation of the minimum standard

San Marino has 22 tax agreements in force, as reported in its response to the Peer Review questionnaire. Its agreement with Serbia complies with the minimum standard.

San Marino signed the MLI in 2017, listing 21 tax agreements.1

San Marino is implementing the minimum standard through the inclusion of the preamble statement and the PPT.2

The agreements that will be modified by the MLI will come into compliance with the minimum standard once the provisions of the MLI take effect.

B. Implementation issues

No jurisdiction has raised any concerns about their agreements with San Marino.

Summary of the jurisdiction response – San Marino

 

	Treaty partners	Compliance with the standard	If compliant, the alternative implemented	Signature of a complying instrument	The alternative implemented through the complying instrument (if not the MLI)	Comments
1	Austria	No	N/A	Yes	N/A	The treaty partner has not listed this agreement in its MLI position.
2	Azerbaijan*	No	N/A	Yes	N/A	Partial compliance (the treaty just lacks the new preamble).
3	Barbados	No	N/A	Yes	N/A	Partial compliance (the treaty just lacks the new preamble).
4	Belgium	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
5	Croatia	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
6	Cyprus*	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
7	Georgia	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
8	Greece	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
9	Hungary	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
10	Italy	No	N/A	Yes	N/A	A Partial compliance (the treaty just lacks the new preamble)
11	Liechtenstein	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
12	Luxembourg	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
13	Malaysia	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
14	Malta	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
15	Portugal	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
16	Qatar	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
17	Romania	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
18	Saint Kitts and Nevis	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
19	Serbia	Yes	PPT alone	N/A	N/A
20	Seychelles	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
21	Singapore	No	N/A	Yes	N/A
22	Viet Nam	No	N/A	Yes	N/A