03/05/2014
Anguilla: Premier Meade On Offshore Financial Sector
“At the end of the day, I think he was convinced to say that the British Overseas Territories were the best regulated tax jurisdictions anywhere in the world.”
03/05/2014
“At the end of the day, I think he was convinced to say that the British Overseas Territories were the best regulated tax jurisdictions anywhere in the world.”
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.
02/26/2014
Information exchange in Guernsey: the road to FATCA and beyond
Guernsey has been at the forefront in participating in international initiatives to promote tax transparency and fight tax evasio
02/26/2014
The Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations will hold a hearing on “Offshore Tax Evasion” on Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at 9:30AM, in Room G-50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. More information can be found on the Subcommittee’
02/25/2014
Expats With Property in UK to Face Capital Gains Tax
Expats non-resident in the UK who own British property will become liable for capital gains tax from next year.
02/25/2014
Cyprus and Norway sign agreement to avoid double taxation
Cyprus and Norway have signed an Agreement on the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Tax Evasion, concerning Income Taxes, as well as a relevant Protocol.
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' 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
Israel : Triggered by the Netanyahu scandal? New 'revolutionary' bill leaves little option for tax evasion in Israel
When wealthy Israelis and tycoons put their money in tax havens around the world, they could not have imagined that they would be exposed
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.
02/21/2014
The Obama administration said on Thursday it will seek new limits on overseas tax avoidance by corporations in its forthcoming budget proposal
02/20/2014
The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will hold a hearing next week on a crackdown on offshore tax evasion that has stalled as prosecutors conduct criminal probes of 14 banks
02/19/2014
There has been much debate on illegal offshore-accounts held by Indians
02/17/2014
Former US Virgin Islands official charged with tax evasion
Both men are scheduled to be arraigned on Feb. 27
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
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.
02/13/2014
OECD delivers new global standard on automatic exchange of information between tax authorities
The standard contained in this report and released in preparation for that meeting calls on jurisdictions to obtain information from their financial institutions and automatically exchange that information with other jurisdictions on an annual basis.
02/13/2014
India: Taxmen fail to get information on offshore money
The income tax department has not been able to make any headway in detecting the offshore investments by Indians, including 20 big names from Andhra Pradesh, in the safe havens abroad.