02/10/2014
Local commercial banks and near banks regulated by the Bank of Jamaica, as well as other entities regulated by the Financial Services Commission, which are counted as Foreign Financial Institutions under US law, should now be engaged in registering online
02/07/2014
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday announced they indicted Peter Amrein, a Swiss asset manager, on charges that he assisted U.S. taxpayers in evading millions in taxes by hiding money in offshore trusts at multiple Swiss banks.
02/06/2014
The treasurer for Chancellor Angela Merkel's party said he would give up his position in April, after facing criticism for transferring money into a Bahamas-registered trust in 1997 and as a widespread debate on tax evasion continues to simmer here.
02/04/2014
Attracted by the Netherlands’ policies and extensive network of tax treaties, IBM joins companies such as Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. that have used Dutch subsidiaries to cut taxes.
02/04/2014
Kendrick Christie, president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Bahamas Chapter, asserted that “Value Added Tax is viable in the Bahamas”.
01/31/2014
The Berne tax authority said it was investigating bank accounts, lease contracts, work contracts and commercial registers of a now liquidated Ammann-Group subsidiary company in Jersey, a British Crown dependency.
01/31/2014
Liechtenstein's Foreign Affairs Office Director, Martin Frick, and China's Consular General in Zurich, Liang Jianquan, have recently signed in Vaduz a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) between the two countries.
01/29/2014
The Caribbean archipelago, a tax haven otherwise dependent on tourism, has jumped up the league table of top investment destinations in the past five years.
01/29/2014
The Agreement was signed by the Minister for External Relations, Senator Sir Philip Bailhache, and the Hungarian Ambassador, His Excellency Janos Csak.