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09 May, 2014
Countries all over the world are becoming increasingly concerned that their outdated tax systems are failing to keep pace with rapid developments in technology and business practices which are eroding...
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08 May, 2014
This feature summarises key developments in value-added tax (VAT) law internationally since the turn of the year...
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20 Mar, 2014
Personally, tax jargon is all Greek to me. Frankly, its 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 Joyces 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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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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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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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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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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15 Jul, 2013
In the search to find the most suitable offshore base for e-commerce or e-gaming operations, the island of Jersey is often overlooked in preference to neighbouring Channel Island Guernsey or fellow UK Crown Dependency the Isle of Man, both of which are at the forefront of the remote gaming industry. All this might be about to change however, as the Jersey Government begins to put in place the necessary ingredients to allow the industry to grow.
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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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