Zambia has become the 171st member of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (the Global Forum). Like all other members, Zambia commits to combatting offshore tax evasion through the implementation of the internationally agreed standards of exchange of information on request (EOIR) and automatic exchange of financial account information (AEOI). Zambia is the 39th African member to join the Global Forum and the sixth African country to join in the past eighteen months.