Posts Tagged ‘ Doing Business Offshore ’

What is an Offshore Bank Account?

Nov 17th, 2008 | By James Green | Category: Doing Business Offshore, Offshore Tax Planning

An offshore bank account can be described as: “a bank account maintained by an individual or business in a bank in any country of which they are not normally a resident”. Basically what this long phrase means is that if you are a British resident and you open a bank account in somewhere like Spain [...]



Investing Offshore - It’s Legal So Why Not Do It?

Aug 12th, 2008 | By James Green | Category: Doing Business Offshore, Investments, Offshore Tax Planning

“Going Offshore” is a phrase that one commonly hears usually accompanied by a wry smile or a sly wink of the eye.
There is an assumption that somehow “Offshore” is “dodgy” and anyone who has an offshore bank account or business must automatically be up to no good. Phrases like “tax avoidance”, “tax evasion” and, increasingly [...]



Jumping on the Tax Haven Band Wagon

Jul 3rd, 2008 | By James Green | Category: Doing Business Offshore, UK Business Taxes, UK Personal Taxes

Following this year’s Caribbean Investment Forum meeting in Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago) on the 11th and 12th June, several countries have announced that they too want to turn themselves into tax havens.
So why the sudden rush? Well the countries involved: Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic don’t exactly have what could [...]