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08 Jul, 2016
Bermuda is one of the most prominent of the international offshore financial centers, with particularly strong insurance, investment fund and trusts sectors, and with a very well-developed advisory and financial infrastructure...
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07 Jun, 2016
Those unacquainted with the esoteric world of modern international finance (which is probably the vast majority of people), would probably dismiss Jersey as one of many tax havens, which must be shut down...
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16 May, 2016
It has had a troubled start to life as an independent nation, with political instability holding back its development. But the Government of the Comoros Islands (also referred to here as Comoros) is putting in place a legal framework...
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03 May, 2016
Naturally, the debate about whether or not the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union has focused largely on the impact of a "Brexit" on the economies of Britain itself and of the EU and, to a lesser extent...
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05 Apr, 2016
Dubai may have had its fingers burnt in the financial crisis of 2009 as its booming property sector slumped and the emirate was effectively bailed out by the parent government of the UAE. However, the crisis hasn't deterred foreign...
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29 Mar, 2016
It's hard to classify what Hong Kong actually is in one neat description. It isn't technically "offshore," it's not really a country, but it's clearly more than just a mere city. What is clear though is that this densely populated 400 square mile...
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08 Mar, 2016
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 world's offshore jurisdictions. But the jurisdiction has quickly risen to prominence...
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11 Feb, 2016
To describe Andorra as an offshore jurisdiction in the legal sense is misleading. This is because Andorra has never had a separate "offshore" regime catering for international business like, say, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands...
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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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15 Dec, 2015
According to Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the United Kingdom "is at the forefront of a dramatic increase in transparency about company ownership"...
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