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		<title>Swiss Banking Secrecy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Swiss banking secrecy is subject to much discussion at the moment and Switzerland is under strong pressure to change the country’s banking secrecy laws. It is easy to say that Switzerland immediately must change their banking secrecy laws since it only protect criminals around the world. But why does Switzerland have such strong bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;more than 800 000 Companies have been registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of June 2008, 823,502 companies had been registered in the British Virgin Islands as of of which 445,865 were &#8216;active&#8217;. In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 41% of the world&#8217;s offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;that Cyprus is regarded as having the most attractive tax regime in Europe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a survey KPMG interviewed more than 400 tax professionals across Europe. According to the poll Cyprus was regarded as the most attractive tax regime in Europe followed by Ireland, Switzerland and Malta. The least attractive tax regime was that of neighboring Greece.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;only French nationals pay income tax in Monaco?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monaco has no personal income tax except for French nationals who has to pay income tax according to French law and directly to the French government. Under some circumstances even French nationals may be exempt from income tax. These situations are as follow: 1. they have had been habitually resident in Monaco for 5 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230; in Cyprus you can earn up to 19.500 Euros without paying personal income tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most jurisdictions allow for a free amount to be earned without having to pay personal income tax. This non-taxable amount differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but it is clear that Cyprus is one of the jurisdictions having the most generous rules in this area. According to Cyprus tax law you are allowed to earn up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than 14,700 Americans have disclosed their secret foreign bank accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to American Internal Revenue Service (IRS) more than 14,700 Americans have disclosed their secret foreign bank account under the amnesty program agreeing to repatriate the assets and pay back taxes and interest as well as reduced penalties. One major reason for this has without doubt been the between the IRS and the Swiss bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thai Company Structure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thailand is not a tax haven or an offshore center. However, Thailand is a very popular country in which to buy real estate and this can be done with an offshore structure although it is not possible to buy real estate directly from the offshore company. Instead an offshore structure with a local Thai company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information from Deloitte about the Tax System in Cyprus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deloitte is one of the largest providers of audit, tax,consulting and financial advisory services in Cyprus and constitutes a part of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) that is one of the world’s leading professional services firms with almost 170.000 people in more than 140 countries. Deloitte&#8217;s professional services in Cyprus includes: audit of financial statements in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on German Authorities buying information on Germans having hidden money in Swiss Banks Accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since a couple of months ago there have been a lot of fuzz in the media regarding data with information about Germans having undeclared money in Swiss Banks Accounts. The data has been stolen from a Swiss bank and the person who has stolen the information has offered the German state to buy the information. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.offshorepedia.com/update-on-german-authorities-buying-information-on-germans-having-hidden-money-in-swiss-banks-accounts</link>
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		<title>Swiss Trust Company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Swiss Trust Company is a dormant Swiss corporation, either an SA (Société Anonyme) or AG (Aktiengesellschaft), that has been purchased from its original owner and reinstated. The buyer receives a tax and liability release certificate and takes over operation of the entity. A &#8220;seasoned&#8221; Swiss company has an original incorporation date that remains intact [...]]]></description>
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