Britain said on Thursday it was suspending the exchange of tax information with Russia and Belarus in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Countries from across the world have signed bilateral agreements with each other which allow their national tax authorities to request information from counterparts elsewhere to crack down on tax evasion and on companies trying to shift profits to a low-tax country. “The UK is freezing tax cooperation with Russia and Belarus by suspending all exchange of tax information with them,” Lucy Frazer, financial secretary to the Treasury, said in a written sta…