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01 Mar, 2019
Located in South East Asia, Singapore has emerged as the region's premier business and trade hub. With a highly developed and successful free market economy the city-state enjoys an open and corruption-free environment...
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15 Jan, 2018
Located in the Indian Ocean, Mauritius has long been a successful hub for business and finance, connecting investors from the developed world to key developing economies such as India and countries in sub-Saharan Africa...
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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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21 Apr, 2015
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 Jul, 2014
As in many countries, the tax code in the United States attempts to encourage people to save for their retirement by providing various tax incentives. However, as many savers, retirement plan providers and lawmakers have observed...
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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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28 May, 2014
On March 14, 2014, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published its Discussion Draft on Action 6 of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, on preventing treaty abuse. However, as with many other aspects of the OECD’s work in relation to BEPS, respondents have warned that the proposals threaten to punish innocent taxpayers and disrupt global investment flows.
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11 Mar, 2013
With its low tax, business friendly ‘E-Zone’ legislation, advanced telecommunications infrastructure, and sophisticated business environment, the Caribbean island of Curaao is now a very attractive proposition for e-commerce companies looking to locate operations or back-up facilities in the Americas region.
The jurisdiction of Curaao was created on October 10, 2010 when the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved and became two separate jurisdictions, the second being Sint Maarten. At the same time, the other three islands that made up the Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba) became special overseas municipalities of the Netherlands. Curaao lies about 50 km north of Venezuela and is about 2.5 hours by air from Miami.
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22 Aug, 2012
Countries seeking to boost the quality of their workforce and attract people and certain skills often do so by offering foreign workers tax incentives, such as reduced rates of income tax. However, with many governments battling to turn around deep budget deficits and finding ever more imaginative ways of raising revenues, expats are finding themselves increasingly under attack from revenue-hungry governments and tax inspectors in some countries, and here we summarise some of the more notable developments in expat taxation to have emerged in recent weeks.
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