Sentence examples for offshore registration from inspiring English sources

Specialist accountants told the Guardian such offshore registration was a classic method of escaping some or all of three kinds of heavy tax which ordinary homeowners must pay - inheritance tax, stamp duty and capital gains tax.

Then came Enron's collapse, which raised a whole raft of concerns about corporate America: conflicts of interest on Wall Street, impenetrable accounting, the offshore registration of corporate vehicles, large financial exposures, unhealthy deference given to celebrity chief executives, and high share valuations.

The US treasury says that one of Ilyumzhinov's aides was convicted of murdering an opposition journalist who "was investigating an offshore business registration mechanism in Kalmykia tied to Ilyumzhinov".

Offshore shell-company registrations (a BVI speciality) are back near record levels.

At the committee's legislative drafting session on Tuesday, Representative Paul Kanjorski, the Pennsylvania Democrat who heads the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, added the requirement of registration by offshore funds.

The scale of the withdrawals from Miami is not yet clear.America's other offshore speciality is shell-company registration.

The Corporate Services segment includes company secretarial services, share registration and business services, and offshore corporate and trust services.

Using ships registered in the Netherlands, they transport women offshore, where the laws of the country of registration apply onboard, and distribute the abortion pill at sea.

These are increasingly popular with rich Chinese keen to preserve newly acquired wealth.Offshore centres have to strike a delicate balance when levying fees and taxes on the industryPrivate-equity firms have become big investors in the offshore-incorporation business, lured by the strong, stable cashflows from registration and renewal fees.

A well-regulated offshore finance industry brings in $100m a year, mainly from company registrations.

By 2000, Niue, which is home to fewer than 2,000 people, had 6,000 registered offshore companies, and was making about $500,000 per year from those registrations.