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Airbnb requires an EU-based payment method for accounts in EU, similarly for accounts in the US. They do not ban Russian citizens, but ban actions from within Russian territory. I want to understand, from a practical point of view, how do Russians book an apartment on airbnb in Dubai for...

https://news.bitcoin.com/russia-law-criminalizes-buying-bitcoin-7-years-jail/

Staying anonymous by being dependent on 3rd world countries' opsec? https://hunter.ddosecrets.com/datasets/84

Does anyone know the legal implications of receiving money and paying for an invoice for company B through the bank account of company A? Company B has lost its bank accounts and was in need of doing a trade. Company A did a deal with this company to represent them in this 100% legit deal. What...

If my UK company with existing bank accounts becomes treaty non-resident, how will the banks know?

I spent some time reading through the amendments to the International Business Companies Act in Belize. TL;DR Your IBC in Belize can not carry out any commercial activity, cannot hold IP, and must do everything from within Belize. These rules will change every 2 months. In 2018, the law said...

So now INSTEX has 9 members, no trades yet, but things are changing. https://www.euractiv.com/section/gl...n-eu-iran-financial-trading-mechanism-instex/ Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden will join the INSTEX mechanism for trade with Iran, the six countries declared in a...

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsr...dentified-in-worldwide-money-laundering-sting 168 arrested, 1504 money mules and 140 money mule organisers identified, as a result of the fourth European Money Mule Action ”˜EMMA 4', a global law enforcement action week tackling the issue of money muling...

Not having better things to do, I was looking at Eurostat and the 100th percentile income as percentage of total across EU across time. Look at the increase from 4.5% up to almost 10% in Bulgaria! The 10th decile is 10 p.p higher than other EU countries. They have had the flat 10% tax in more...

Egypt is not a CRS signatory. How is banking in Egypt?

Beware of a complex question, but I am quite interested in the R&D regimes in EU. In BEPS action 5, all "patent box" regimes now include (or will soon include) a requirement that R&D expenditures must be done by "the company" to get full credit. In EU, the best super-deductions are in...

What do people think of the new regulations in Poland? In EU, moving a company from a high-tax jurisdiction to Malta or Cyprus might raise red flags, while Poland should not raise any. For the small business entrepreneur, this could potentially be ideal. However, Poland might have its set of...

Where can I find services that will design Frascati compliant r&d projects that can give tax savings such as double or triple deductions?

Can this new legislation be useful? Can income from blogs, random websites etc. now be VAT free by modifying the business structure somewhat? According to Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (hereinafter 'the VAT Directive') electronically...

Is a bank account a requirement for opening a company in Georgia?

If I wanted to start a (subsidiary) company - not for the sake of making a profit, but to be able to deduct what is really personal expenses on the company - which country would you choose? So the corporate tax rate isn't very important, but for example being able to deduct (mostly personal)...

Did anyone notice that Latvian companies now pay 0% corporate tax?

Which company registries allows for pre-paying fees (like for domain names) so that the company/partnership is mostly guaranteed to exist for a long time? I'm not talking about pre-paying the agent who could be insolvent, but the company registry?

Can someone clarify the usual analysis done by the tax office when: - The company is registered in tax-haven (H) - Owners are resident in countries A, B, C, and D. No CFC rules are in effect as ownership is less than whatever rules those countries have. Then these are the two questions I have...

I'm looking for really cheap offshore registration services. Hopefully fully automatic using an API. Privacy and secrecy is not important, but low taxes are. KYC, anti-laundering etc are all fine as long as it's CHEAP. Where should I go?