Tax and Accounting

AREA: INTERNATIONAL

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• One loose-leaf volume
• Approximately 4 updates per year
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International Offshore Financial Centres provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on 29 countries which offer competitive tax regimes.  It provides a general outline of the tax system in each jurisdiction and discusses specific tax planning issues relating to the use of that jurisdiction in the foreign business structure.  Topics are treated consistently across countries so you can quickly and easily compare jurisdictions and hypothetical scenarios illustrate planning strategies in a visual and practical way.

Features & Benefits

• Extensive coverage of 29 countries
• Written in plain English: customers do not have to translate!
• Consistent treatment of topics across countries: allows for quick and easy comparisons between jurisdictions
• Hypothetical scenarios illustrate planning strategies in a visual and practical way
• Written in-country tax experts: you can be confident that the commentary is accurate, authoritative and relevant
• Quarterly updates: keeping customers informed of the latest developments and up coming changes

Contents Includes

• What is an IOFC (International Offshore Financial Centre)
• Basic tax system outline, including full coverage of all taxes and rates
• Taxation of foreign income
• Finance, licensing, trading, holding, administration companies
• Special entities
• Financing an entity
• Repatriation of income
• Selling the foreign subsidiary
• Return of capital
• Exchange controls
• Tax treaty planning
• Anti-avoidance
• Trusts

Countries covered include:

• Andora 
• Bahamas 
• Barbados 
• Bermuda 
• British Virgin Islands 
• Cayman Islands 
• Cook Islands 
• Cyprus 
• Gibraltar 
• Guernsey 
• Hong Kong
• Ireland
• Isle of Man
• Jamaica
• Jersey
• Labuan
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg
• Madeira
• Malta
• Mauritius
• Monaco
• Netherlands Antilles
• Nevis
• Panama
• Samoa
• Switzerland
• Turks & Caicos Islands
• Vanuatu