Lowtax Features Tagged 'Russia'
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25 Oct, 2018
Cyprus is a recognized financial centre and a significant gateway for EU inbound and outbound investments. It complements the traditional links Cyprus has with central and eastern Europe, Russia, India and China...
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07 Jan, 2016
Automatic exchange of information for tax law enforcement purposes started first in Europe with the EU Savings Tax Directive, went international with the US Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act, and, from 2017, will go global...
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25 Aug, 2015
No single offshore financial center can really lay claim to be the world's best. Most offer similar tax advantages and there has been a tendency over the last 20 years or so for jurisdictions to specialize in certain areas of offshore finance...
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29 Aug, 2014
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...
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10 Jul, 2014
Described by the US Government as a "major milestone" on the path to eradicating offshore tax evasion, but branded by its critics as "the worst law that most Americans have never heard of", the Foreign Account...
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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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13 Jun, 2013
Foundations have long existed in civil law countries where the concept of an Anglo-Saxon trust is unfamiliar. But as competition for a larger slice of the global wealth management cake has intensified in recent years, several, mainly offshore, common law jurisdictions have incorporated foundations laws into their own suites of offshore legislation in order to attract new money from a rapidly increasing population of wealthy individuals and families in emerging economies such as China, Russia, and in Latin America. Guernsey is the latest jurisdiction to begin offering foundations, and is the focus of this feature.
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20 Feb, 2013
Offshore financial centers have long acted as a linking channel for investment between “high tax” countries, and this feature examines how modern international business trends and the demand for ever more sophisticated corporate structures has fueled the demand for offshore legal services. There has always been a certain level of demand for offshore legal services, particularly in the sphere of wealth management and asset protection. Understanding trust laws in a foreign jurisdiction often requires specialist help, and it can be difficult to establish complex corporate structures from afar, hence the presence of well-established networks of legal and corporate services providers in most offshore jurisdictions.
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