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04 Feb, 2014
With its low tax, business friendly âE-Zoneâ legislation, advanced telecommunications infrastructure, and sophisticated business environment, the Caribbean island of Curaçao is now a very attractive proposition for e-commerce companies looking to locate operations or back-up facilities in the Americas region.
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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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16 Oct, 2013
In a globalized world, where ever-increasing volumes of trade and investment are being conducted with little regard to national borders and huge sums of money can be transmitted around the earth at the press of a button, the demand for international companies, often located in offshore jurisdictions, has been rising steadily over the last two decades or so.
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10 Oct, 2013
A year has passed since we last wrote on the e-gaming dispute between Antigua and Barbuda and the United States, and for the tiny Caribbean jurisdiction it has been another year of frustration. Yet Antigua is not giving up the fight, and this special report provides an update on the current status of this 'David versus Goliath' struggle.
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20 Sep, 2013
It has now become the norm for ships to be registered in International Offshore Financial Centres (IOFCs) and there has been intense competition between some of the IOFCs to offer the most advantageous operating and fiscal regime. The major shipping registries are adding new features like yacht registries and expedited registrations procedures in order to attract new business, and in this feature, we round up some of the most interesting developments in the fast-growing world of offshore shipping and yacht registries over the past few months.
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23 Aug, 2013
Research tends to inform us that as individuals we pay much more in tax then we actually need to. However, when it comes to tax planning, it is difficult in the current climate to know where the line between acceptable and unacceptable tax planning is drawn. This feature does not attempt to suggest where that line is or should be, but to draw attention to the issue of tax planning by highlighting some key developments in this area covered by our sister publication, Tax-News.com.
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09 Aug, 2013
The corporate world has generally accepted that taxation rules have fallen far behind the fast-evolving world of international business practice, and that the BEPS project provides a basis for a discussion between taxpayers and governments on how things can change for the better for both parties.
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