Where to set up a tax free offshore company? BVI, Belize, Mauritius Islands, Panama...?

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Which jurisdiction do you recommend in terms of reputation, cost-effectiveness, process simplicity, banking system...?
 
They all have (more or less) bad reputation and banking is difficult. Belize is cheapest and easiest. BVI second. Then Mauritius.

But it's 2020. Offshore companies are almost always useless, unless you establish an office there and have people working for you.

What do you want from an offshore company that a just forming a local company and opening a local bank account can't do?

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This is the probably the answer to your question.
 
the purpose is tax savings.
when you say bad reputation and banking is difficult, you mean we might face problems in receiving payments from our clients? please clarify.
 
Sols said:
What do you want from an offshore company that a just forming a local company and opening a local bank account can't do?
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It is actually a interesting question you rise there, I think I will reopen this in a new thread to get suggestions what the purpose other then tax evasion or banking may be.

I know that there are other purposes for such entities then just the already mentioned reason, but maybe there are even more.

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zeeoffshore said:
the purpose is tax savings.
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That's probably not realistic. Unless you live in a tax haven, you can't legally save on tax by having an offshore company. If you live in a developing country with limited tax law enforcement, you might be able to illegally not pay tax where you live.

The concepts of tax residence, CFC, and related topics have been covered before on this forum and you can find a lot of information about it if you search.

zeeoffshore said:
when you say bad reputation and banking is difficult, you mean we might face problems in receiving payments from our clients? please clarify.
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You will have problems opening an account to begin with. It's not impossible, especially if you are OK with an E-Money Institution (EMI) and not a traditional bank.

This is fine if all you need it SEPA/EUR access but for other currencies and non-SEPA payments, the EMI is reliant on correspondents/partners and you may find it difficult to access GBP, USD, CAD, SGD, and so on with an offshore company.

You may also run into problems receiving payments, if your clients' finance departments don't like seeing invoices from tax havens. Some companies will refuse to work with offshore companies.

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This is the probably the answer to your question.
 
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I know that there are other purposes for such entities then just the already mentioned reason, but maybe there are even more.
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Yes there are. For non-bank passive investment or ownership activties offshore companies are good.

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for asset structuring i would say, complicated shareholder agreements and proper dividend distribution
also for securitization and liquidity events (sales/purchases of assets in a SPVs)

but for tax evasion non(mis) reportable accounts are becoming new offshores
 
lavel said:
you want to elaborate your question a little to get more answers!
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Just interested in this pattern.

As I understand, a offshore comp (+ bank account?) could be useful for non-bank passive investment.

What exactly is a non-bank passive investment? For which type of business or purpose I could use a construct like this?
 
wheelspin said:
Just interested in this pattern.

As I understand, a offshore comp (+ bank account?) could be useful for non-bank passive investment.

What exactly is a non-bank passive investment? For which type of business or purpose I could use a construct like this?
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Martin Everson said:
Yes there are. For non-bank passive investment or ownership activties offshore companies are good.
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Can you help @Martin Everson I'm interested in the same question?

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blueweb said:
Can you help @Martin Everson I'm interested in the same question?
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One can use an offshore company with substance for example to own Intellectual Property (IP).

Lets say for example you are a chip manufacturer in a western country 😉. You want to sell your technology to Huawei for some billions. Your western country forbids the transfer of such technology from your country to China because well - China is the economic enemy...lol. If all IP is held in an offshore entity outside your country then nothing stops you from continuing the transaction if offshore company is managed at arms distance.

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