03/05/2014

Seychelles' New FSA To Regulate Offshore Financial Sector

The authority's Chief Executive Wendy Pierre confirmed that the FSA has the capacity and the commitment to fulfill its mission, which is to provide a sound regulatory system in compliance with international laws and practices.

02/28/2014

Russia targets offshore investors

The Russian Finance Ministry will offer companies based offshore but with operations in Russia a choice: either disclose their ultimate beneficiaries and maintain their zero tax rate, or pay taxes at the higher Russian rate.

02/25/2014

Bermuda cited as G-20 focuses on multinational tax issues

The world’s top economies agreed on Sunday to develop stricter rules on cross-border taxation to close loopholes that have allowed multinationals such as Starbucks Corp, Google Inc, Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc to avoid paying taxes.

02/24/2014

Barbados To Expand Double Taxation Network

Barbados' financial-services sector is rated as the second-largest source of foreign exchange earnings, behind tourism, for which new markets are being sought outside of Canada.

02/24/2014

Gibraltar Widens Tax Change Network

Parliament unanimously approved new legislation on Friday that will dramatically expand Gibraltar’s network of agreements for the exchange of tax information.

02/24/2014

G20 agrees on new rules to combat offshore tax evasion

The world's top financial officials have ramped up co-operation to combat offshore tax evasion after the G20 meeting in Sydney signed off on a global standard for the worldwide automatic exchange of tax information.

02/17/2014

France Removes Bermuda from Tax Blacklist

Bermuda’s Minster of Finance, Bob Richards, commented, “We were confident that any entry on France’s list would be very short-lived as Bermuda is globally recognised as complying with the highest international standards on tax transparen

02/17/2014

Govt continuing crackdown on wealth stashed by Indians abroad

Cracking down on alleged wealth stashed by Indians abroad, the government has initiated enquiries in several cases while information has been received in 67 such cases and prosecution for wilful tax evasion has been launched in 17 other cases.

02/13/2014

Bahamas Gov't Continues To Push VAT Positives

The Bahamas Government has taken to the social media platform Facebook in a bid to win support from taxpayers over the introduction of a value-added tax in the territory.