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U.S. COMPANIES RACE TO GO OFFSHORE
Threatened by possible federal legislation, American companies race to save taxes by re-incorporating offshore.
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WASHINGTON. Taxes and other restrictions on wealthy Americans are driving them offshore -- and could wreck the US economy.
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ZURICH. Amid rumors Swiss politicians may sell out the nation's strict banking secrecy, the government denies it. Then a top banking regulator says secrecy may have to yield. Who's in charge?
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LUGANO. The Italian tax amnesty has Swiss border town bankers nervous as cash flows south by the billions of euros.
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LONDON. UK Labour government says it will assure that Spain will honor any referendum result on Gibraltar sovereignty. Oh yeah?
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ST HELIER. British Labour's threat to penalize JERSEY unless it follows EU tax orders causes a crisis in this Crown dependency.
More on this story here.And these same threats cause Barclays Bank to locate its new private client banking on the ISLE of MAN, rather than Jersey.
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WASHINGTON. Task Force on Information Exchange & Financial Privacy recommends balancing financial privacy and national security.
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Click here.Richard Rahn asks, "Do You Need Financial Privacy?"
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Dan Mitchell calls for reforms to end IRS and US tax code violations of Americans' financial privacy.
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US government subpoenas flood telecom industry demanding personal information about Americans and their financial records.
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New law imposes costly, unnecessary rules on small businesses.
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Concerned about terrorists, Americans don't want to surrender their liberty in exchange for security.
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Will the US government succeed where terrorists have failed?
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David Boaz new book 'Toward Liberty: The Idea That is Changing the World' is highly recommended.
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The US Treasury and IRS are stepping up enforcement of the law requiring reporting of all US persons' offshore financial accounts.
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NASSAU. Thursday's election will produce a new prime minister, but it wont change the destruction of the islands' offshore financial role.
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ST. GEORGE'S. 1 more bank closed, 4 under investigation, added to 32 shut down since 2001. Only 13 banks remain.
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A new poll says 53% of Swiss says bank secrecy should be eased, 55% say tax evasion should be a crime.
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Answers UK critics who claim anti-EU tax attitude is childish.
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The people of GIBRALTAR fight for their own way of life and have been resolutely British since the early 18th century.
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Federal banking agencies have serious concerns about cross ownership between foreign and US banks as a risk to the financial system.
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A major reason to move assets offshore, the explosion of lawsuits in the United States, including massive class action law suits.
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13,000 investors swindled out of US$60m (£41m) in Internet fraud.
More on this story here.Nigerian Internet e-mail fraud rolls on.
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LONDON. Growing alarm over plans for the taxation of UK branches of overseas companies; mass exodus from UK predicted.
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The Boston College International & Comparative Law Review says the OECD has no legal basis for its blacklisting of tax havens.
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A leading islander says the OECD is trying to destroy small tax havens.
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NASSAU. Leadership and jobs were the issues; the offshore financial community sees more hard times ahead.
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HAMILTON. So says one of its financial leaders.
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MIAMI. Money laundering entrapment grabs a Latin businessman.
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EU Court of Justice rules The Rock's tax exempt companies are not unfair state aids to business; a victory for the embattled tax haven as rumors swirl about its doubtful future as a British colony.
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VALETTA. EU membership opponents want the island to become an international financial haven like Switzerland.
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Conservative parties ready to move up in the coming election.
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WASHINGTON. Dan Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation exposes the fallacies of proposals to curb offshore re-incorporation by US companies seeking to avoid high US taxes.
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Thursday the dollar was down & the euro up.
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Pressure on the dollar produces muddled Washington statements.
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LONDON. Tax and spend is once again Labour Party policy.
More on this story here.And UK taxing of offshore funds is under discussion.
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Britain's proposed replacement for the EU withholding tax is causing more problems than the rejected original.
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Get the straight tax facts before you decide to go.
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