# The International Tax Compliance (Amendment) Regulations 2025, Regulation 3: Amendment of regulation 1 (interpretation)


In regulation 1—
(a) in paragraph (3)—
(i) before sub-paragraph (b), insert—
“(aa) the OECD (2014), Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters as amended by the 2023 update to the Common Reporting Standard contained in the OECD (2023), International Standards for Automatic Exchange of Information in Tax Matters: Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework and 2023 update to the Common Reporting Standard, including the commentary (the “CRS”).”;
(ii) omit sub-paragraph (b);
(iii) for sub-paragraph (c), substitute—
“(c) the agreement reached between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the United States of America to improve international tax compliance and to implement FATCA, signed on 12th September 2012 and amended in June 2013 and February 2019 (“the FATCA agreement”)”;
(b) omit paragraph (3A);
(c) in paragraph (6), omit “222 or”;
(d) after paragraph (6), insert—
“(7) In its application for the purpose of these Regulations, the CRS is to be read as if—
(a) the optional wording in paragraph 36sexies of the commentary to Section VIII of the CRS adding the term “qualified non-profit entity” were included in the definition of “non-reporting financial institution” at sub-paragraph B(1)(f),
(b) the optional wording in paragraph 36sexies of the commentary to Section VIII of the CRS defining the term “qualified non-profit entity” were included at sub-paragraph B(10), and references in that wording to “Jurisdiction” were a reference to the United Kingdom,
(c) the published list referred to in Section VIII(D)(4)(ii) (definition of reportable jurisdiction) were the list contained in a notice published by the Commissioners further to this regulation, and
(d) the published list referred to in Section VIII(D)(5)(ii) (definition of participating jurisdiction) were the list contained in a notice published by the Commissioners further to this regulation.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/740/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/international-tax-compliance-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-3
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