Exchange of Information Upon Request

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....its own tax purposes or whether the conduct being investigated would constitute a crime under the laws of the requested Party if such conduct occurred in the requested Party. 2. If the information in the possession of the competent authority of the requested Party is not sufficient to enable it to comply with the request for information, that Party shall use all relevant information gathering mea....

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....rmation regarding the legal and beneficial ownership of companies, partnerships, collective investment funds or schemes, trusts, foundations, "Anstalten" and other persons, including, within the constraints of Article 2, ownership information on all such persons in an ownership chain; in the case of collective investment funds or schemes, information on shares, units and other interests; in the ca....

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....vance of the information to the request: (a) the identity of the person under examination or investigation; (b) the period for which information is requested; (c) the nature of the information requested and the form in which the requesting Party would prefer to receive it ; (d) the tax purpose for which the information is sought; (e) grounds for believing that the information requested i....

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....btain the information, except those that would give rise to disproportionate difficulties. 7. The competent authority of the requested Party shall forward the requested information as promptly as possible to the requesting Party. To ensure a prompt response, the competent authority of the requested Party shall: a) Confirm receipt of a request in writing to the competent authority of the request....