Uitspraak van verwijderd op zaterdag 6 december 2014 om 12:41:
Het heeft er misschien niet zo veel mee te maken, maar nu je het over de elite hebt. Eigenlijk best wel opvallend dat in West Europa je 'per regio' overal een soort dwergstaatje aka belastingparadijs hebt.
Hier ben je volgens mij wel aardig warm mee hoor, maar is zelfs wereldwijd te bekijken. Het is geen geheim dat vele vermogenden hun geld via offshoring constructies hebben weggezet in dat soort "tax havens".
-Bahamas, which has a considerable number of registered vessels. The Bahamas used to be the dominant force in the offshore financial world, but fell from favour in the 1970s after independence.[53]
-Bermuda, which is market leader for captive insurance, and also has a strong presence in offshore funds and aircraft registration.
-British Virgin Islands, which has the largest number of offshore companies.[54]
-Cayman Islands, which has the largest value of assets under management in offshore funds, and is also the strongest presence in the U.S. securitisation market.
-Jersey is the most international of the British Crown dependencies, all of which can be counted as offshore centres. Jersey has particularly strong banking and funds management sectors and a high concentration of professional advisers including lawyers and fund managers.[55]
-Luxembourg, which is the market leader in Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) and is believed to be the largest offshore Eurobond issuer,[citation needed] although no official statistics confirm this.
-Singapore has recently risen in stature as a centre for wealth management and ranked fourth in the world in the 2009 Global Financial Centres Index. The state is a hub for hedge funds and its private banking industry is growing at a rate of 30 per cent annually.[56]
-Mauritius is used for both inward and outward investment platform for Asian, African and European countries, it has the effective commercial and legal infrastructure required to support the development of a global network. The island nation has a number of double taxation agreements and is listed on the OECD list of jurisdictions that have substantially implemented internationally agreed tax and transparency standards.
-Panama, which is a significant international maritime centre. Although Panama (with Bermuda) was one of the earliest offshore corporate domiciles, Panama lost significance in the early 1990s.[57] Panama is now second only to the British Virgin Islands in volumes of incorporations.[58]
-New Zealand, the most remote jurisdiction, has the advantage of being a true primary jurisdiction but with a tough but practical regulatory regime. It is well positioned for the Asian market but retains close ties to Europe.
-Switzerland: taxes in Switzerland are levied by the Swiss Confederation, the cantons and the municipalities. Switzerland is sometimes considered a tax haven due to its general low rate of taxation, its political stability as well as the various tax exemptions or reductions available to Swiss companies doing business abroad, or foreign persons residing in Switzerland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_financial_centre
Dat heeft bijv. tot gevolg dat er bijv. op de Kaaiman eilanden en de Bahama's bijna 300 geregistreerde banken zijn (bron: zelfde wiki). Best bizar voor dat soort kleine eilanden.
