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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.

The Cayman Islands

 

The Cayman Islands are located to a 460 km south of Florida, and they are a world bank-center fifth on a size with 570 banks and deposits more than on a $500 billion. Laws and regulative positions were specially developed for strengthening and maintenance of reputation of financial and corporate secrecy. A law about Banks and Companies and Law about Confidential Relations are most strict and obligatory in the world. Opening of information is the crime, and the request for information is illegal. Caimans have all the other attributes of successful tax-freedom, including excellent telecommunications, absence of currency limitations, representative office of large worlds participating bank, local specialists on international taxation. On Caimans favorable terms for activity of trust-companies, which are specialized in area of creation and management by offshore-corporations and active assistance to the so-called "Brass Signboards" (to the banks of class B) which are often exposed to criminal investigations and are the source of "loans" to the taxpayers-residents of the foreign countries, are created. Caimans provide the prominent position by means of suggestion of easy (there is no requirement on a capital) and rapid (during one week) creation of holding-companies, trusts, trust companies, banks of class B, investment companies and different other legal entities, thus at their creation no questions are set. So, 2930 new companies on Caimans were created in 1982, leading to that year the common amount of corporations on Caimans to 16712, while all population of the Islands counted 17000 persons slightly more.

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