SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

Subject : Geography / IR

Context : The Union Cabinet has approved an Agreement between India and Saint Vincent and The Grenadines for the Exchange of Information and to provide assistance to each other in collection of tax claims.

Concept :

• This is a new Agreement between the Republic of India and Saint Vincent and The Grenadines. There was no such agreement in past between the two countries.
• Agreement also contains tax examination abroad provisions which provide that a country may allow the representatives of the other country to enter its territory to interview individuals and examine records for tax purposes.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Caribbean.
• It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.
• Kingstown is the capital and main port.