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11 Sep, 2018
Mark Friedlich, Senior Director of Tax and Accounting, North America, Wolters Kluwer, and a member of the Senate Finance Committee Chief Counsel's Tax Advisory Committee on Tax Reform, will be giving a presentation at the upcoming AICPA & CIMA U.S. Tax Reform Conference...
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15 Jun, 2018
Are you ready to set up your own offshore bank? Work through this 7-point checklist from Kevelex Corp, the experts in offshore bank licensing and correspondent account opening...
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13 Nov, 2017
Hong Kong has enacted CRS and specified 75 jurisdictions with which financial account information is to be exchanged starting from 2018. The first reporting period however falls into 2017 and for UK and Japanese account holders...
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25 Nov, 2016
Most people tend to perceive Sweden as a high tax country. This may be true for individuals but is far from the truth when it comes to corporate taxes, especially for holding companies. The corporate tax rate is a moderate 22%...
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13 Nov, 2014
A company registered as income tax taxpayer in Costa Rica that ceases to have economic activities must deregister with the tax authorities
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30 Nov, 2012
In the second week of November the Minister of Finance of Luxembourg submitted a revised budget to the Parliament for voting, in an effort to increase the revenues of the state and constrain public spending.
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14 Aug, 2012
Shelf companies are companies that have been previously incorporated and can be purchased off the shelf. They are also called ready-made companies and when they have been on the shelf for more than a year they are called aged shelf companies or vintage shelf companies (as in wine). Many types of companies from a number of jurisdictions can be bought from the shelf and the term shelf only refers to the fact that the company has already been registered and is sitting on a shelf waiting to be purchased.
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29 Aug, 2011
It is clear that there are fundamental changes underway worldwide. Martin Wolf of the FT spoke of a shift from west to east. The implications of the debt of large western countries are in play. Dissatisfaction with austerity is going to have to be dealt with in Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Italy and Ireland. There is likely going to be the usual reaction against immigration mainly due to the lack of resources.
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15 Mar, 2011
The New Zealand Government has recently introduced a new company regime to take effect from 1 April 2011. Officially the new type of company is referred in the legislation as a "look through company".
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11 May, 2010
Although Russia has (or had) its own domestic 'offshore' in the form of tax-haven territories which were much used by manufacturing and extractive businesses in the early 1990s to shelter income from taxation, legislation...
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