Category: Tax Havens
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IFC International Newslinks
Safe Swiss Passage Swiss reporter Myret Zaki, who sacrificed three months’ salary to probe the UBS financial scandal, was both prophetic and cryptic. “India will never get to know the names of those having accounts in banks across Switzerland. New Delhi has neither the will, nor the clout,” Zaki told TEHELKA. “You have to be…
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Why Go Offshore With Your Savings and Banking?
Offshore Savings Accounts Can Offer Valuable Tax Savings ST PETER PORT, Guernsey, April 30, 2010 – Each year, according to the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), around 400,000 UK nationals move abroad to work or retire. Opening an offshore savings account could bring significant tax benefits once they cease being UK residents for tax…
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IFC International Newslinks
Judge says Trio fraud INVESTORS with $123 million in an offshore fund managed by Trio Capital have almost certainly been victims of a ”fraudulent scam”, a NSW Supreme Court judge ruled yesterday. Justice George Palmer detailed ”vices” in Trio’s business and ruled it was in the public interest to wind up five schemes that it…
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Offshore Investors Forum in Abu Dhabi
National Bank of Abu Dhabi Added to Sponsor Roster for Next Week’s Latin America Mid-East Investors Forum in Abu Dhabi ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, April 21, 2010 – The National Bank of Abu Dhabi is the newest sponsor of next week’s Latin America Mid-East Investors Forum, a move that reinforces the growing bond between…
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IFC International Newslinks
UBS Client Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud A wealthy client of the Swiss bank UBS pleaded guilty on Monday to tax fraud, the ninth American caught up in an investigation of the bank’s offshore private banking services, The New York Times’s Lynnley Browning reports. The bank client, Harry Abrahamsen, of Oradell, N.J., pleaded guilty in…
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Impact Of Tax Amnesties On Offshore Financial Services
A new report provides detailed analysis of the Finance and Banking market This report introduces Datamonitor’s proprietary Tax Amnesty Assessment Index. It is a quantifiable assessment framework of 15 criteria, grouped within five critical amnesty conditions, that can be used by offshore banks to determine the likely impact of any announced amnesty on their assets…
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Cayman Island Offshore Company Guide
When you want to invest in the Cayman Islands, the place that you should be contacting is the Chamber of Commerce, as this is the best center to get any kind of business related information. This island has been a favorite spot for most business ventures for a long time now, since it has many…
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Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program
Anxious US Taxpayers Who Disclosed Foreign Bank Accounts and Await Their Call From the IRS Need to Decide Whether to Accept the “Offshore” Penalty or Withdraw From the Program, Says Marks Paneth & Shron Director and Former IRS Special Agent The Call From the IRS Will Come; Once It Does, US Taxpayers Must Make Tough…
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Best International Bank Award
ST HELIER, Jersey, March 31, 2010 – Abbey International is currently celebrating twice over having won the coveted Best International Bank award in this year’s Investment International Finance Awards and this week secured a “Best Buy” listing for its popular 18 month fixed rate deposit currently paying 3.57% AER with Moneyfacts, the independent industry monitor (source: Moneyfacts.co.uk). The Investment International awards are amongst the oldest…