Tax havens have traditionally been politically acceptable as long as they are rainy and cold places such as Delaware, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. However, if you add a white sand beach and some palm trees, it becomes a different story. The tax haven becomes an offensive villain, not only guilty of unfair tax competition but of virtually every other thinkable evil, including money laundering, tax evasion, and all poverty on planet earth. The fact that the lion's share of international money laundering takes place in London and New York, not in the Caymans or the British Virgin Islands, is usually conveniently omitted in any debate on the subject. So if everyone from your accountant and his grandmother to the prime minister of the United Kingdom are relentlessly critical about corporate structuring under the palm trees, this is a valid reason to consider incorporating elsewhere. If you are looking for financial privacy and tax freedom, you can find this in the cold countries that like to call the warmer tax havens sunny places for shady people. The most notorious tax haven criticism comes from the most prominent offshore tax havens in the world, the United States and the United Kingdom. This book will teach you how to incorporate tax-free companies in those countries. From the author of the international bestseller The Land Without a Banking Law - How to Start a Bank with a Thousand Dollars.

English Translation of Panamanian Securities Act (Law No 1 of July 8, 1999) whereby the National Securities Commission is created and the securities market is regulated in the Republic of Panama. This law regulates investment advisors, brokers, administrators, custodians, public and private investment funds and investment companies. Including the following amendments: Public Law N 42 of October 2, 2000 Public Law N 29 of July 3, 2001 Public Law N 11 of January 30, 2002 Public Law N 45 of June 4, 2003 Public Law N 6 of February 2, 2005

Offshore Bank Licensing - Where and How - Regulatory changes during the early years of this millennium left merely a few Offshore Tax Havens that still welcome applications for new International Bank Licenses. Many jurisdictions have stopped accepting new applications altogether while others have decided to issue licenses exclusively to overseas branches and subsidiaries of internationally established banking groups. This book contains a compilation of banking laws and regulations from seven offshore jurisdictions that welcome new private bank startups and offer reasonable qualification and capital requirements. Minimum capital requirements start as low as $25K for a restricted Class B Banking License and from $250K for an unrestricted international license. Information is included about license classes, physical presence requirements and application procedure along with contact information for the regulatory authorities in each jurisdiction.

Would you like to start your own Online Bank and offer banking services to clients worldwide? Although the total investment required for setting up a banking business, just as any other business, obviously varies depending on the business model, it is quite possible to form and register a business entity with full legal capacity to offer banking services, for a total cost of less than one thousand dollars, just as the perhaps somewhat controversial subtitle of this book indicates. While there are laws in New Zealand regulating financial activities, there are no regulatory entry barriers as such for the business of banking when services are offered to non-residents only (offshore). This book will teach you how to register a New Zealand business entity online with legal capacity to offer banking services to any number of clients, resident anywhere in the world. Step by step instructions are included. The regulatory framework and upcoming changes to the relevant legislation are explained.

Part I: The Thirteen Chapters by Sun Tzu Translation by Dr. Lionel Giles. - Part II: The Thirteen Chapters With Commentary and Notes by Dr. Lionel Giles. - Although the text by Sun Tzu was written 2500 years ago it was practically unknown in Europe until 1782 when the French Jesuit Father Joseph Amiot translated it to French. This translation in the words of Giles, "contains a great deal that Sun Tzu did not write, and very little indeed of what he did." The first translation to English was published in 1905 by E.F. Calthrop and the opinion of Giles was not more forgiving this time: "It is not merely a question of downright blunders, from which none can hope to be wholly exempt. Omissions were frequent; hard passages were willfully distorted or slurred over. Such offenses are less pardonable. They would not be tolerated in any edition of a Latin or Greek classic, and a similar standard of honesty ought to be insisted upon in translations from Chinese." - - This book contains two parts and can be enjoyed with or without the legendary commentary and notes by Giles.