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17 Jul, 2014
As Jersey, the British Crown Dependency and offshore financial centre, becomes the first jurisdiction in the world to establish a regulator-approved Bitcoin investment fund, this month we chart developments over the past year...
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25 Jun, 2014
Although one of the European UnionÂ’s smaller member states in terms of population, Ireland is one of its most important business and finance hubs and the jurisdiction of choice for US companies investing into Europe...
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24 Jun, 2014
Double tax avoidance agreements rarely generate controversy. Indeed, dozens of them are approved by legislatures around the world on an almost weekly basis with few people actually noticing. In the United States however...
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20 Jun, 2014
For corporate taxpayers in India, promises from the recently elected BJP Government that it will put a stop to retrospective law making must have felt like a breath of fresh air. However, with trust between investors and the Government...
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12 Jun, 2014
Situated in the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man's diminutive geographical stature - the island is 50km long and 22km wide at its broadest - belies its position as one of the world's largest and most reputable international offshore financial centres...
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28 May, 2014
On March 14, 2014, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published its Discussion Draft on Action 6 of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, on preventing treaty abuse. However, as with many other aspects of the OECD’s work in relation to BEPS, respondents have warned that the proposals threaten to punish innocent taxpayers and disrupt global investment flows.
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21 May, 2014
No, it wasn't some kind of April fool's joke. April 1, 2014, really was the second anniversary of the United States having the dubious distinction of possessing the highest total corporate tax rate among member countries...
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15 May, 2014
ItÂ’s hard to classify what Hong Kong actually is in one neat description. It isnÂ’t technically offshore, itÂ’s not really a country, but itÂ’s more than just a mere city. What is clear though is that this densely populated 400 square mile peninsula...
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20 Mar, 2014
Personally, tax jargon is all Greek to me. Frankly, itÂ’s worse than Greek. I graduated in English Literature, ages ago, but I also took a couple of university courses on the classics and ancient languages. Judging from my experience, James JoyceÂ’s Ulysses is less incomprehensible than tax laws; deciphering Homeric Greek is easier than wrestling with a pile of tax return forms.
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19 Mar, 2014
Guernsey is one of three Crown Dependencies of the United Kingdom and is located in the English Channel approximately 30 miles off the French coast. Although the UK Government is responsible for the conduct of external relations...
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