Certificate of Resident Status (CoR) is a document issued by the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department (IRD) stating that the applicant, who can be an individual or an entity, is a Hong Kong tax resident under the double tax agreement (DTA) between Hong Kong and a particular foreign tax jurisdiction for a particular calendar year. […]
Due to global implementation of common reporting standard (CRS) and automatic exchange of information (“AEOI”), financial institutions (“FIs”) are required to conduct due diligence on tax residency certificate holders to ascertain their tax residency, and accordingly whether certain information of the financial accounts of the account holders is required to be exchanged to foreign tax […]
