Category: Tax Havens

  • Event in Monaco Unites US Companies with European Institutional Investors

    New York, NY & Monte Carlo, Monaco – July 7, 2016 – Small Cap Nation™ (SCN™) and Monaco Growth Forums by Andreea Porcelli™ today announced that Small Cap Nation has been selected as Media Sponsor for the upcoming event.  Monaco Growth Forums is an exclusive, invitation-only conference highlighting growth companies seeking capital and/or greater exposure.…

  • Malta U.S. Pension Scheme Review

    If we wrote a book about the Malta U.S. Pension Scheme it would be about 12 pages even if we covered everything imaginable in great detail…otherwise it would be a couple of paragraphs and not worthy of a white paper because it is NOT an occupational retirement plan it is a life time annuity with…

  • Tax Havens – Tax Optimization Schemes

    Tax havens are countries that allow businesses and individuals to avoid paying taxes in the nations they mainly operate out of by offering bank accounts with little or no tax liability. Tax havens also provide little or no financial information to nations where entities are based. And it’s mostly legal even though these individuals or…

  • British Offshore Investment Strategy

    While the world watches the Panama papers propaganda, Dubai finalizes the framework for the perfect British Offshore Investment Strategy, a tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) with the United Kingdom (UK) and the famous tax haven of Jersey to avoid double taxation and pave the way for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to become a leading…

  • The case for offshore

    Eye-popping revelations in the Panama Papers have fanned concerns that the so-called “tax havens” lie at the centre of a giant web of criminal conduct. Some, including UK Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn, have demanded that these offshore centres be “shut down”, and so disconnected from the global grid. The uproar invites examination of…

  • Luxembourg ranked as leading financial centre in the Eurozone

    The 19th Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) lists Luxembourg as the leading financial centre in the Eurozone, 2nd in the European Union after London and 3rd most competitive European financial centre. Luxembourg has improved its ranking by 5 places compared to GFCI 18. As in previous years, it is identified as the only European financial…

  • USA: The New Switzerland?

    At one time, tax havens took great pride in calling themselves just that, since low-tax jurisdictions provide people with freedom from oppressive taxation. But, in recent decades, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, based in France, but largely funded and controlled by the USA) has been on a rampage to crush tax havens.…

  • AEOI Automatic Exchange of Information

    FATCA and CRS regime are commonly referred to as AEOI Automatic Exchange of Information. GATCA, or global account tax compliance act introduces the global AEOI. The OECD has developed a standard for global information exchange which has been widely endorsed: On 21 July 2014 the OECD issued the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Information…

  • New Tax Haven Is the United States

    Moving money out of the usual offshore secrecy havens and into the U.S. is a brisk new business. According to the Bloomberg Business News article titled: The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States. This link was found on the Drudge Report for January 27th but not for entire 24 hours, here’s the…