Relationship dossier
Macau
United Kingdom
Relationship assessment
Practical tax cooperation within Macau’s limited external-affairs authority
Macau toward United Kingdom
+25Within its authorized economic powers, the Macau SAR government concluded tax arrangements with the United Kingdom, including agreements on double taxation and tax information exchange.
United Kingdom toward Macau
+25The United Kingdom concluded tax arrangements with the Macau SAR, including agreements on double taxation and tax information exchange.
Overall relationship
+25The relationship includes practical bilateral tax cooperation, while Macau’s status as a special administrative region limits its authority to conduct foreign affairs independently. The known cooperation is concrete but does not by itself establish a broader or especially close partnership.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Macau is a special administrative region of China and does not conduct an independent general foreign policy. Within its authority over economic matters, Macau and the United Kingdom have concluded tax cooperation arrangements, including agreements on double taxation and tax information exchange. These provide concrete, practical cooperation, but the breadth of wider government-to-government engagement is unclear.
Key developments
Macau and the United Kingdom concluded an agreement on double taxation.
Macau and the United Kingdom concluded a tax information exchange agreement.
Major uncertainties
- The scope of economic and tax cooperation beyond the known agreements is unclear.
- The extent of direct UK–Macau engagement outside economic matters is unclear.