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The British Virgin Islands Companies Registry. The term "offshore company" or "offshore corporation" is used in at least two distinct and different ways. An offshore company may be a reference to: a company, group or sometimes a division thereof, which engages in offshoring business processes. [1]
In 2000, KPMG were commissioned by the British Government to produce a report on the offshore financial industry generally, and the report indicated that approximately 45% of the offshore companies in the world were formed in the British Virgin Islands, [7] making the British Virgin Islands one of the world's leading offshore financial centres ...
Harney Westwood & Riegels (or Harneys) is a global offshore law firm that provides advice on British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Bermuda and Anguilla law to an international client base that includes law firms, financial institutions, investment funds, and private individuals. They have locations in major financial ...
Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, Michael Riegels, recites the anecdote that the offshore finance industry commenced on an unknown date in the 1970s when a lawyer from a firm in New York telephoned him with a proposal to incorporate a company in the British Virgin Islands to take advantage of a double taxation relief ...
The British Virgin Islands Companies Registry (part of the Registry of Corporate Affairs). The BVI Business Companies Act (No 16 of 2004) is the principal statute of the British Virgin Islands relating to British Virgin Islands company law, regulating both offshore companies and local companies.
The British Virgin Islands company law is the law that governs businesses registered in the British Virgin Islands. It is primarily codified through the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004, and to a lesser extent by the Insolvency Act, 2003 and by the Securities and Investment Business Act, 2010. The British Virgin Islands has approximately 30 ...
Pages in category "Offshore companies of the British Virgin Islands" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Chart of an offshore company structure. exemption from local corporate taxation and stamp duty, provided that the company engages in no local business (annual agent's fees and company registration taxes are still payable, which are normally a few hundred U.S. dollars per year) preservation of confidentiality of the beneficial owner of the company