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Choosing
An Offshore Regulatory Regime
For
most people, regulatory regimes are not going
to be the first point of comparison in choosing
between competing offshore jurisdictions, but
once a short list of suitable jurisdictions has
been assembled based on other criteria (investment
type and accessibility? language? contacts? location?
climate?) then a comparison of regulatory regimes
may help to narrow the field.
The choice of an offshore jurisdiction is in itself
a difficult, and to some extent a circular task.
You will not find it easy to distinguish between
the merits of different offshore jurisdictions,
or the facilities they offer, until you have got
to know them quite well. This is the point at
which you might think that an onshore adviser
in your own home country can help you - and it
may be so, but remember that only a very skilled,
knowledgeable and above all, objective, adviser
is going to be useful. Such a person is hard to
find.
www.lowtax.net
is designed to help people who do not have access
to the perfect adviser we just described. www.lowtax.net
is not an investment adviser, and is no substitute
for professional advice, which is an absolute
necessity for anyone planning a move offshore.
But the www.lowtax.net
site does contain a wealth of information about
35 offshore jurisdictions, which is designed to
help you to make a preliminary choice of one or
a few offshore jurisdictions suited to your circumstances,
which you can then explore in depth.
Among
much other information given for each jurisdiction,
www.lowtax.net
contains sections on Offshore
Business Sectors, giving a general account
of the regime for trusts, banking, mutual funds
etc, and a section called Law of Offshore, which
reviews legal and regulatory structures in depth.
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