Tag: tax haven

  • DeltaQuest Group Launches MyBankingLicense.com

    Limassol, Cyprus, 03/21/2011 – DeltaQuest Group has launched another of their online specialized service portals: MyBankingLicense, which is specifically designed to assist clients in obtaining offshore banking licenses in over 15 jurisdictions worldwide. MyBankingLicense.com offers clients from across the globe assistance in acquiring both onshore and offshore banking licenses. The DeltaQuest Group consultants have expert…

  • Luxembourg To Introduce New Investment Vehicle

    The Luxembourg Parliament has adopted a law on Specialized Investment Funds (SIF), which offers a number of new features, including a broader definition of “eligible investors” to include both professional and private “well-informed” investors. The new law replaces the law of 19 July, 1991 which concerned collective investment schemes reserved for institutional investors. According to…

  • Global Investors Pour Money Into Ireland

    Ireland has become the jurisdiction of choice for high value investments in hi-tech manufacturing plants, research and development projects and financial services according to the Irish government’s Industrial Development Agency (IDA Ireland) as it marked an “outstanding” year for growth and new investments in 2006. “Ireland is now seeking and winning high value investments, that…

  • Invest Offshore to Avoid Tax

    QUESTION: I have just left my company and I have $175,000 in my savings and investment account.Is there any way to transfer that money in an offshore account to grow for the next 15 years, to avoid my heavy tax burden when that money is drawn out? I am new to this, and with my…

  • Offshore Havens ‘Declare War’ on Honest Taxpayers

    By Paul Lashmar The US Senate has accused the Isle of Man, the Cayman Islands and other offshore havens of facilitating tax evasion that costs other countries billions of pounds every year. The accusations are made in a report by Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He said: “I believe the…

  • EU Orders Luxembourg to Repeal Tax Breaks

    The European Commission has ordered Luxembourg to repeal its preferential tax regime for financial holdings by the end of the year. The commission said the scheme gives unjustified tax advantages to providers of certain financial services with holding companies in Luxembourg. Stable and high-income market economy features moderate growth, low inflation, and a high level…

  • Tax-Haven Changes Proposed

    ”This is not a small correction to the existing Tax-Haven regulations,” says one international tax lawyer. Federal regulators are proposing new rules aimed at curbing efforts by multinational businesses to shift income to low-tax jurisdictions overseas, according to reports. The proposal focuses on how high-tech, pharmaceutical, and other companies value intangible assets such as research…

  • Carlyle holds Qinetiq shares in tax haven

    Investors set to make a colossal profit on their investments in Qinetiq, the former research arm of the Ministry of Defence, have registered their shareholdings in Guernsey, the offshore tax haven. According to filings by Qinetiq – which is still 56 per cent owned by the MoD – shares controlled by Carlyle, the US private…