The EU published a news release on 25th May confirming that the EU Council had removed the Bahamas and Saint Kitts and Nevis from the EU’s list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions – they having made commitments at a high political level to remedy EU concerns and EU experts have assessed those commitments. Implementation of their commitments will be carefully monitored by the code of conduct group. 7 places remain on the list – American Samoa, Guam, Namibia, Palau, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago and the US Virgin Islands.