Posts Tagged ‘ Offshore Tax Planning ’

Domicile - Having Your Cake and Eating It

Nov 18th, 2008 | By James Green | Category: Offshore Tax Planning, Taxation (and can you avoid it?)

International businessman Robert Gaines-Cooper has failed to persuade the Court of Appeal that he has changed his UK domicile.
We read a lot in the UK press about “non-doms” and how they don’t pay their fair share of tax. Recent legislation has made it more difficult for “non doms” to benefit but as usual the only [...]



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 [...]