Bahrain and Bermuda sign protocol amending double taxation agreement

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GCC CONTEXT

Double taxation agreements (DTAs) historically serve as structural enablers for cross-border capital flows and financial services activity within and beyond the GCC, with Bahrain's banking and asset management sectors particularly sensitive to shifts in treaty frameworks governing withholding taxes and treaty benefits eligibility. Protocol amendments to existing DTAs typically reflect evolving regulatory standards around Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) compliance and automatic exchange of financial information, factors that have progressively reshaped GCC financial institutions' operational and compliance costs since the mid-2010s. Bahrain's position as the GCC's primary international financial centre makes treaty modernization relevant to regional fund domiciliation, Islamic finan

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