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The use of offshores’ charts is not the exceptionally modern phenomenon. When ancient Athens entered the 2% import- and export-tax, the Greek merchants started making detour in twenty miles to avoid payment of these taxes. The milliards of dollars of European riches were kept out of harm's way in Swiss banks in the Second World War-time. Lately other countries entered in force laws about secrecy on appearance and similarity Swiss and began compete bringing in international capitals.

Off-shore charts are based on the use of the possibilities given by made agreements about the exception of double taxation. In Russia, for example, it has got considerable development of practical worker of the use of offshores’ companies for international investments. Branches and substructures are created in combination with the largest domestic financially-industrial groups and corporations. In the everyday’s activity the last use plenty of offshore-firms.

Switzerland

 

Daily more than 100 milliards of Swiss francs pass through the banks of the Alpine republic, their combined balance approaches one and a half trillions of francs. While the words "Swiss bank account" became the studies of synonyms to the "secret bank account", and although Switzerland, undoubtedly, most stable, safe, protected and beautiful place for storage of the money, that is a fact, that it is no tax refuge.

Taxes are high for local habitants, and tax from the sum of the dividends, distributed among shareholders as the profit begun to work in Switzerland, arrives at 35% for non-residential agents. Certainly, there can be agreements about investing through the Swiss bank out of this country and avoidance of the indicated high tax, that the profit was transferred in the safe accounts of the Swiss banks. Swiss banks offer the unbelievable variety of services in addition to ordinary bank services, including appearance as a broker on actions, merchants by valuable metals, investment managers of н even as agents on the trips for the clients. Secrecy in bank transactions and in all commercial and business operations is the normal state of businesses in Switzerland. Laws about bank secrecy are part of Constitution of Switzerland and are perceived very earnest. Switzerland takes all measures for providing of confidentiality of the bank clients, even using for this purpose simple envelopes, reverse addresses on mailboxes which can often change, letters, with the addresses, written by hand, and also dispatch of mail from France, Italy or Germany to the foreign clients. Although a Swiss corporate law can provide sufficient confidentiality for satisfaction of necessities of any offshore-investor, there are a lot of more comfortable places for creation of corporations. Lately as a result of Agreement between the USA and Switzerland about mutual Help investigators working through the channels of Ministry of Justice of the USA and State Department managed to get registration documents and other document on the Swiss accounts of criminals from the USA. Swiss's are disturbed by violation of their banking system by foreign criminals. They fear also the potential threat of wholeness of this system from million "easy money" which can tempt the blameless employees of Swiss banks normally.

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