UK Attempts to Catch Tax Evaders

It is said that the British tax office, HM Revenue & Customs, is tightening its regulations in order to find and catch tax evaders with offshore bank accounts.
Revenue & Customs has called for an exploratory meeting with the 170 largest banks in the UK, so see what can be done to prevent tax evasion and […]

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Growing Demand for Swiss Banking

Although the Swiss Banking community has been concerned the past couple of years due to increased European tax regulations and the interest in the private banking sector showed by upcoming Dubai and Singapore, it turns out that, despite these developments, the Swiss do not have to worry at all.
Private banking as well offshore […]

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Advantages of offshore banking

There must be many advantages to offshore banking, considering the size of the offshore banking industry. What exactly are those advantages of offshore banking?
The most important advantage of opening an offshore bank account is that it offers you strong financial privacy, although since 11 September 2001 authorities are working to decrease the secrecy policies of […]

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Offshore Bank

An offshore bank is a bank that provides services to someone that is not a resident of the country where the bank is located. Any bank can be an offshore bank, but usually the term is referred to banks that operate in so-called tax havens, countries with very low or no taxation.
Although offshore banks have […]

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