Offshore Countries - Table of Contents

Alderney is the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency.

Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles.

Anjouan is an autonomous island, part of the Union of Comoros.

Antigua is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda.

Aruba is a 33 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela.

Asset Protection is a set of legal techniques and a body of statutory and common law dealing with protecting assets of individuals and business entities.

Attac is an activist organization originally created for promoting the establishment of a tax on foreign exchange transactions.

Australia is officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent.

Austria officially the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe.

Bahamas is officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets (rocks).

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles.

Belize: is a constitutional monarchy, and the northernmost Central American nation.

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States.

Botswana officially the Republic of Botswana, is a country located in Southern Africa.

British Virgin Islands often called the British Virgin Islands, is a British overseas territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico.

Campione is an Italian comune (municipality) of the Province of Como in the Lombardy region.

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories.

Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory located in the western Caribbean Sea.

Ceuta is a 18.5 square kilometres (7.1 sq mi) autonomous city of Spain and an exclave located on the north coast of North Africa surrounded by Morocco.

Controlled Foreign Corporation rules are features of an income tax system designed to limit artificial deferral of tax by using offshore low tax entities.

Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand.

Corporate Haven is a jurisdiction with laws friendly to corporations thereby encouraging them to choose that jurisdiction as a legal domicile.

Corporate Inversion as a tax-reduction maneuver have become a public policy issue, as substantial tax revenues are lost.

Costa Rica officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a country in Central America.

Cyprus officially the Republic of Cyprus, is a Eurasian island country in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

Dubai is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Fin 48 - is an official interpretation of United States accounting rules that requires businesses to analyze and disclose income tax risks.

Flag of Convenience is the use of a place, jurisdiction, state or country as a nominal (in name only) "home base" for one's operations.

Foreign Sales Corporation to receive a reduction in US federal income taxes for profits derived from exports, through the use of an offshore subsidiary.

France officially the French Republic, is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories.

Free Economic Zone designated areas where companies are taxed very lightly or not at all to encourage development or for some other reason.

Free Port is a port with relaxed jurisdiction with respect to the country of location. Free economic zones may also be called free ports.

Free Trade Zone is an area of a country where some normal trade barriers such as tariffs are eliminated and bureaucratic requirements are lowered.

Germany is a country in Western and Central Europe. Germany is a federal parliamentary republic of sixteen states.

Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean.

Greece also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in southeastern Europe.

Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines

Grenadines is a Caribbean island chain of over 600 islands in the Windward Islands.

Guernsey is a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.

Hong Kong is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau.

International Business Corporation is a company formed under the jurisdictions as untaxed company which is not to engage in business within the area.

International Tax is the study of tax on a business subject to the tax laws of the international aspects of an individual country's tax laws.

Ireland is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world.

Isle Of Man otherwise known simply as Mann is a self-governing British Crown Dependency.

Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France.

Labuan is a federal territory in East Malaysia. It is an island off the coast of the state of Sabah.

Liberia officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone on the West.

Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east.

Luxembourg officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany.

Money Laundering is the practice of disguising the origins of illegally-obtained money.

Offshore Bank is a bank located outside the country of residence of the depositor typically in a tax haven that provides financial and legal advantages.

Offshore Company - A company which is incorporated outside the jurisdiction of its primary operations.

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Offshore Financial Centers - is a small, low-tax jurisdiction specialising in providing corporate and commercial services to non-resident offshore company

Offshore Financial Centre as a small,low-tax jurisdiction specialising in providing corporate and commercial services to non-resident offshore companies.

Offshore Fund is a collective investment scheme domiciled in an Offshore Financial Centre

Offshore Investment is the keeping of money in a jurisdiction other than one's country of residence.

Offshore Trust is simply a conventional trust that is formed under the laws of an offshore jurisdiction.

Offshoring describes the relocation by a company of a business process from one country to another

Tax Avoidance is the legal utilization of the tax regime to one's own advantage and tax evasion is the general term for efforts not to pay taxes.

Tax Exile - is one who chooses to leave a country with a high tax burden and instead to reside in a foreign nation

Tax Exporting - occurs when a country indirectly encourages economic activity to move to another country with a lower tax burden.

Tax Haven - is a state or a country or territory where certain taxes are levied at a low rate or not at all while offering due process.

Tax Shelter - are any method of reducing taxable income resulting in a reduction of the payments to tax collecting entities.

Tax Treaty - may cover income taxes, inheritance taxes, value added taxes, or other taxes.

Transfer Pricing - refers to the setting, analysis, documentation, and adjustment of charges made between related parties for goods.