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Category: Tax Havens

  • Not Singapore or Mauritius: Paris is the new tax haven for FPIs

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    Global financial giant Citi has drawn financial ministry officials’ attention that foreign funds and global banks are taking advantage of India’s treaty with France by using Paris as a base for investments in India to escape tax, reports the Economic Times. Foreign funds and global banks may be taking advantage of India’s treaty with France…

  • Mauritius to become Southern Hemisphere’s number 1 financial centre within a decade

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    [box]Mauritius is destined to become the Southern Hemisphere’s leading international financial centre within the next decade, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations.[/box] The comments from Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere Group, follow the announcement that his company has received an investment banking licence from the…

  • Strengthening Singapore-Shanghai Collaboration in a Changing Financial World Order

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    [box size=”large” style=”rounded” border=”full”]3rd Singapore-Shanghai Financial Forum takes financial collaboration to new heights[/box] Singapore, 14 April 2017… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Shanghai Municipal Financial Services Office (SFSO) held the 3rd Singapore-Shanghai Financial Forum (SSFF) in Singapore today.  The SSFF is an annual forum that brings together industry participants from Singapore and Shanghai…

  • Singapore Wealth Industry 2017 Sizing the Market Opportunity

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    “Wealth in Singapore: Sizing the Market Opportunity 2017” analyzes the Singaporean wealth and retail savings and investments markets, with a focus on the HNW segment. The report is based on our proprietary datasets. Singapore is Asia’s pre-eminent offshore investment center, with 80% of the wealth invested in funds sourced from non-residents in 2015. However, the…

  • The Heavens. Annual Report

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    “The Heavens. Annual Report” Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti Centre Assas | Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas AS A PART OF THE MOIS DE LA PHOTO DU GRAND PARIS 2017 The Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and the Rencontres d’Arles are teaming up for a groundbreaking approach to the debate over major social issues by bringing specialists…

  • European Parliament: The U.S. is a Haven for Tax Cheats and Money Launderers

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    Earlier this week, we blogged about how the United States recently declared the Philippines to be a “major money laundering country.”  On the same day of our post, March 7, the European Parliament (EP) issued a Report which describes the United States as a growing haven for tax evasion and money laundering.  Specifically, the Report…

  • A Future for Offshore Financial Services?

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    Globalization has been a one-way street of impositions by powerful countries; fiscal sovereignty has been violated by the strong; and tax competition remains under threat from the mighty. Indeed, if the current pattern of incursions, restrictions and false labelling of Caribbean jurisdictions as ‘tax havens’, and the Caribbean as a region of ‘high risk’, is…

  • Global investment flowing through tax havens grows by $700bn

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    The portion of global investment flowing through tax havens has risen by $700bn in two years, according to an analysis by ActionAid. The NGOs evaluation of data from the International Monetary Fund evidences a 5% increase in investment moving through tax havens between 2013 and 2015, from $11.8tn to $12.5tn. ActionAid said this growth was…

  • Overseas Territories of the USA

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    U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for February 6: Overseas Territories WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Following is the daily “Profile America” feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: OVERSEAS TERRITORIES Profile America — Monday, February 6th. On this date in 1899, the Senate ratified the Treaty of Paris, concluding the Spanish-American War of 1898. The…