
OECD Tax Havens as per May 2010
If one is interesting in offshore companies the first thing they may want to
look at, are the tax haven list of the OECD, we have done this work for you just
to make it easier to see which tax havens are left in 2010 according to the
OECD.
A quick run down from the OECD Tax haven list show the following:
Jurisdictions that have substantially implemented the internationally agreed
tax standard:
| Argentina Australia Barbados Canada China2 Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France | Germany Greece Guernsey Hungary Iceland Ireland Isle of Man Italy Japan Jersey | Korea Malta Mauritius Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Russian Federation | Seychelles Slovak Republic South Africa Spain Sweden Turkey United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States US Virgin Islands |
What does the above list show us, that it isn't of any benefit to incorporate
a offshore company in the above countries? Defiantly not, many of the tax
benefits an onshore company can get from incorporating a offshore holding
company in a tax haven are specifically available in the listed countries,
however, this does not mean that all of the listed countries are of any specific
benefit for your purpose.
According to the OECD Tax Haven list then the following countries are only or
should we say they are still in the process to be compliant to the
internationally agreed tax standard, that means, those countries may be a way
more attractive if the goal is zero tax or in other words total exemption from
any corporate tax as well as to protect your privacy.
Let's have a look at the following OECD Tax Havens:
| Andorra Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Bahrain Belize Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands4 Cook Islands Dominica Gibraltar Grenada Liberia Liechtenstein | 2009 2002 2002 2002 2002 2001 2002 2000 2002 2000 2002 2002 2002 2002 2007 2009 | (0) (0) (7) (4) (1) (6) (0) (3) (3) ( (0) (1) (1) (1) (0) (1) | Marshall Islands Monaco Montserrat Nauru Neth. Antilles Niue Panama St Kitts and Nevis St Lucia St Vincent & Grenadines Samoa San Marino Turks and Caicos Islands Vanuatu | 2007 2009 2002 2003 2000 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2000 2002 2003 | (1) (1) (0) (0) (7) (0) (0) (0) (0) (0) (0) (0) (0) (0) |
According to the list taken directly
from the OECD there are plenty of countries available which said they want to be
compliant but still have many years of work in order to accomplish this.
What you will want is to incorporate
your offshore company in a Tax Haven that has close to zero Tax agreement by
now, since this will take at least 10 years before they will have all the
agreements in place to be taken off the list of Tax Havens in the OECD
database. Actually the countries which don't have or only have a few agreements
are the one who host most offshore companies including have the most business
compared to the many other countries, there is only one reason for it, every
business man or individual want their privacy and safe as much tax as possible.
Belize is a very attractive country to incorporate your Offshore Company,
however, you may have a close look at Cyprus and the Seychelles since even if
OECD is claiming they have implemented the internationally agreed tax standard
then it doesn't mean that Cyprus gave up their Banking Secrecy as well as it
doesn't mean that the Seychelles keep beneficial records public, now both
countries have very strong benefits for any business worldwide which you must
look into.
You can double check the list and the
information we have found here by a simple search on Google, enter OECD Tax
Havens, and it will pull up, you won't find the Seychelles anywhere. Also it is
incredible fast to register a Seychelles Company, it can be done within a few
hours.
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