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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 BVI Financial Services Commission is an autonomous regulatory authority responsible for the regulation, supervision and inspection of all the British Virgin Islands financial services including insurance, banking, trustee business, company management, mutual funds business, the registration of companies, limited partnerships and intellectual property.
The British Virgin Islands was not alone in this regard; this was part of a policy of mass-repeal by the United States of double tax relief treaties with "microstates". Despite the British Virgin Islands being an English common law jurisdiction, the Act drew heavily upon elements of Delaware corporate law. This reflected the market for British ...
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]
Ministry of Development (MR) – Central Registration and Information on Business (CEIDG) [70] – company register for natural persons trading as sole traders or their civil law partnerships (searchable); such companies are prohibited from performing certain activities (e.g. operating a life insurance company), and proper agricultural activity ...
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The Territory is also the second largest domicile for formation of offshore investment funds (behind the Cayman Islands) with 2,422 licensed open-ended funds as at 30 June 2012 [23] (there is no official statistics for closed-ended funds which are not regulated in the British Virgin Islands). The British Virgin Islands also operates as a ...