Financial Transparency Coalition

SANTIAGO (Dow Jones)--Chile's lower house has approved a bill that would allow the national tax service to access Chileans' bank-account information and share it with other countries' tax authorities.

NZPA: New Zealand has signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement with Guernsey -- one of the Channel Islands off Britain, known as a tax haven.

SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- The governments of Singapore and Belgium have amended their tax agreement to "enhance" their cooperation on the exchange of information for tax purposes, Singapore's Ministry of Finance said Friday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium has been removed from a "grey list" of countries seen as lacking financial transparency after it signed 12 agreements with other countries to exchange tax-related information, the OECD said on Thursday.