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15 Aug, 2017
In this feature we explore what makes Hong Kong tick as one of the world's major business and financial centers...
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02 Aug, 2016
Located in South East Asia, Singapore is a highly developed and successful free market economy which enjoys an open and corruption-free environment, stable prices, a low tax regime and the sixth-highest per capita GDP in the world...
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10 Aug, 2015
The latest Singapore company formation statistics from Hawksford, the corporate services firm, show that business registrations grew by an impressive 9 percent in the second quarter of 2015 compared with the previous three months...
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25 Nov, 2014
Thanks to SingaporeÂ’s status as one of South East AsiaÂ’s main business hubs and commercial centres, built on the foundations of a stable and predictable legal regime, this city-state has grown in stature as one of the worldÂ’s major centres for the arbitration of contractual and other disputes between international investors, the numbers of which have risen as an inevitable consequence of growing investor interest in the Asia-Pacific region. This feature summarises the main points of interest regarding the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and related developments as the Government seeks to increase SingaporeÂ’s influence in the field of commercial dispute resolution.
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15 Sep, 2014
To listen to United States President Barack Obama and members of Congress rail against "unpatriotic" companies using corporate "inversions" to escape America's high 35% rate of corporate tax, you'd think that tax was the sole factor in a company's...
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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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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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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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08 Nov, 2013
Unusually for a major global business and financial centre, Hong Kong has only a limited network of double tax avoidance agreements, and until quite recently, had no comprehensive tax treaties in force at all. But as the global tax landscape shifts, and pressure increases on low-tax and offshore territories to become more transparent, the situation is beginning to change, as this special feature shows.
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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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