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16 Aug, 2018
Initial Coin Offering, or commonly known as ICO, is an innovative form of crowdfunding or fund-raising activity using so-called coins or tokens and can also be called an initial token offering or token sale...
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16 Oct, 2017
It was not long ago that Bitcoin was the running joke in financial circles. Only a few short years back, Bitcoin was widely considered a joke that had no place in the financial marketplace. Some called it a scam, and some simply...
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02 Oct, 2017
Over the years, funding of new businesses has evolved from debt, equity to venture capitalists to crowd funding to the latest source - ICOS. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOS) are now taking the world by storm...
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10 Jun, 2016
Here is John Max, 28, sitting in his makeshift office in downtown Oslo, typing away furiously on his Mac, oblivious of any sound or sight about him. His latest app on how to trade wine collections is almost ready...
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20 May, 2016
A press note was released on 10 May 2016 notifying the signing of the Protocol and highlighting the major amendments to the convention for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to...
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21 Feb, 2014
In an event entitled the war on the 1% last week, venture capitalist Tom Perkins once more reaffirmed his belief that continuing taxation could lead to the extermination of the top 1% in society.
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13 Jan, 2009
A company is deemed to be tax resident in New Zealand if it is incorporated in New Zealand, or if its head office or centre of management is in New Zealand, or if control of the company by its directors (or persons acting in that capacity) is exercised in New Zealand.
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16 Jul, 2008
The New Zealand government has been busy in the last year or two responding to complaints that its tax regime is anti-competitive, particularly on the international level. Here we examine some of the specific changes that have been made, or are going to be made.
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