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Almost all low-tax ('offshore') jurisdictions
control banking activity, not least in order
to prevent money laundering.
Domestic
and international banking are usually
separately licensed; domestic banking is
sometimes reserved for local banks.
Offshore
banks are normally free of taxation - but
there is usually a hefty annual license
fee; and the process of 'harmonization'
that took place in the first decade of the
21st century has led in some cases to the
imposition of a low tax rate across all
sectors.
Banking secrecy
is usually very good in offshore jurisdictions,
often enforced by statute; but jurisdictions
increasingly have international agreements
that permit breaches of confidentiality
in some circumstances, often under the auspices
of a Tax Information Exchange Agreement
(TIEA). TIEAs became prevalent between 2008
and 2010, when the OECD succeeded in imposing
standardized rules for mutual information
exchange on almost all countries and territories.
Typically, a TIEA (or equivalent wording
in a Double Tax Treaty) will permit one
country to extract information from another
when it has prima facie evidence of wrongdoing
(including tax evasion) on the part of a
named person or company. It is early days
in the process, but the high-tax countries
are doggedly pursuing their 'anti-offshore'
agenda, and the long-term survival of banking
secrecy, even in its last bastions such
as Switzerland and Andorra, seems doubtful.
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