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05 Mar, 2014
A small island in the English Channel it may be, but Jersey packs a serious punch on the world stage as an offshore financial centre (OFC), with an estimated GBP1.2 trillion of wealth held in the islands banks, trusts, specialist corporate...
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03 Mar, 2014
Estonia generally is not viewed as a low-tax jurisdiction, and as such it is probably overlooked by many international investors when they are planning the most appropriate corporate structures to optimise tax in favour of more high-profile...
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20 Feb, 2014
Although its a piece of European Union legislation, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is having an impact on the funds industry way beyond European shores, prompting changes to legal frameworks for investment funds in...
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18 Feb, 2014
On February 5, 2014, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and National Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay announced that, after lengthy negotiations, Canada and the United States had signed an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) under the longstanding Canada-US Tax Convention to implement enhanced information reporting between the two countries required by the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
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05 Feb, 2014
As one of the first British dependent territories to develop tax-exempt corporate forms, Gibraltar has a long history as an offshore financial centre, with the focus initially on the traditional forms of offshore business like company incorporation...
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30 Jan, 2014
The management of tax cost is one of the main preoccupations for companies doing business across national borders, and without adequate planning and forethought, taxes can be a significant drain on resources, financially and in terms of time spent on compliance...
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16 Jan, 2014
Petroleum has traditionally dominated the economy of the UAE. At one time an underdeveloped area, by 1985 the region had the highest per capita income in the world. This immense wealth has been invested in huge infrastructure projects in all seven of the emirates.
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30 Dec, 2013
Labuan, situated a few miles off the northern coast of Borneo in Malaysia and just 60-odd square miles in size, is one of the newer additions to the list of the worlds offshore jurisdictions. But the jurisdiction has quickly risen to prominence as one of the preferred platforms for investment into the regions emerging economies.
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11 Dec, 2013
The islands Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman cover an area of just 100 sq miles in the Western Caribbean Sea, but, together, the Cayman Islands punch well above their weight in terms of their importance to the global financial system.
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28 Nov, 2013
As legal services markets in major onshore countries struggle to recover to their pre-crisis levels, demand for cross-border legal services in key offshore jurisdictions is going from strength to strength.
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