As of June 2008, 823,502 companies had been registered in the British Virgin Islands as of of which 445,865 were ‘active’. In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 41% of the world’s offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands.
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Often an offshore company address is nothing more than a mail drop assigned to the offshore company. Bank statements, invoices and any other type of company mail may be sent to this address. The mail will typically be picked up each or every two weeks by the offshore company administrator or facilitator. The mail will be put into a plain envelope and mailed to the address of the beneficial owner’s choice. Only the domestic return address and the recipient’s address appear on the envelope and there are no signs that in contains mail sent to the offshore company. Almost all offshore company providers give the possibility to have an offshore mail forwarding address for the offshore company.
read moreA nominee shareholder is when the real or beneficial owner chooses not to have his or her name on the share certificate or in the share register. Instead another person agrees to appear on the share certificates and in the share register. In order to protect the real of beneficial owner the nominee should sign Declaration of Trust to the beneficial owner giving up any right to exercise any powers over the shares including voting rights or the right to sell or transfer the shares.
read moreA registered shareholder is when the real or beneficial owner records his or her name on the share certificates or in the share register. However, concerning offshore companies very often the real or beneficial owner is not registered in the Register of Shares and not on the share certificates. Instead nominee shareholders are used in order to not disclose the beneficial owner.
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