If you hid income in a sham domestic trust instead of an offshore one, you're not eligible for the offshore deal and its automatic exemption from civil fraud penalties; the IRS figures it already knows enough about the domestic trust pushers.
At his mutual fund, a cross between small- and mid-cap value, he goes for the pricier Ensco International (trailing price/earnings multiple: 61) and National Oilwell (25) instead of rival offshore oil service companies FMC Technologies (20) and Offshore Logistics (11).
Where possible you should go for the low-cost option, for example with wind, instead of expensive offshore wind we could import onshore wind from Ireland… which is likely to be cheaper.
Now instead of shallow offshore drilling, our oil companies are drilling six miles down in water two miles deep, which means the chances of anything going wrong, then going catastrophically wrong, increase geometrically.
Had the paintings been owned directly under her name, instead of through offshore entities, she may have been required to pay millions of dollars a year in taxes, ICIJ's research indicates.
With fast-expanding export economies like China becoming price setters instead of price takers, offshore inflation and disinflation are of growing importance.
A 2012 study of Pacific walruses conducted by researchers from the US Geological Survey's Alaska Science Center and Russia's Pacific Research Fisheries Center found that the lack of sea ice in September and October caused walruses to forage in areas nearer to the shore, instead of going further offshore as they did in the past. .
Instead of the 13GW of offshore wind power by 2020 called for by the Committee on Climate Change – the statutory body that advises ministers on carbon emissions targets and how to meet them – the government wants the UK to have as much as 18GW by the same date.
But under current treaties, ISDS lets them apply instead to offshore tribunals operating in secret, without such basic safeguards as judicial review and rights of appeal.
