List of offshore financial centres
- List of offshore financial centres
The following are designated as offshore financial centres by the IMF [ [http://www.internationalmonetaryfund.com/external/np/mae/oshore/2000/eng/back.htm#table1 IMF list of OFCs] ] or the FSF:
*Andorra
*Anguilla
*Antigua
*Aruba
*Bahamas
*Bahrain
*Barbados
*Belize
*Bermuda
*British Virgin Islands
*Cayman Islands
*Cook Islands
*Costa Rica
*Cyprus
*Djibouti
*Dominica
*Dublin
*Ghana [ [http://www.ghana.gov.gh/ghana/president_launches_ghanas_landmark_offshore_banking.jsp President Launches Ghana's Landmark Offshore Banking] . Ghana government website. Accessed 2008-08-21.] [ [http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?newsid=3190§ion=2 Ghana's offshore dreams] . "The Statesman". Accessed 2008-08-21.]
*Gibraltar is no more an offshore centre since 30th June 2006. No new Exempt Company certificates are being issued from that date. [http://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/gov_depts/taxation/tax_index.htm#Exempt%20Company] All previous Exempt Company certificates will be ineffective from 2010 [http://www.lawandtax-news.com/html/gibraltar/jgilatdctx.html]
*Grenada
*Guam
*Guernsey
*Hong Kong
*Isle of Man
*Israel
*Japan
*Jersey
*Labuan, Malaysia
*Lebanon
*Liechtenstein
*Luxembourg
*Macau
*Malta
*Marianas
*Marshall Islands
*Mauritius
*Micronesia
*Montserrat
*Nauru
*Netherlands Antilles
*Niue
*Panama
*Philippines
*Puerto Rico
*Seychelles
*Singapore
*St Kitts and Nevis
*St Lucia
*St Vincent and the Grenadines
*Switzerland
*Tahiti
*Tangier
*Thailand
*Turks and Caicos
*United States (particularly, Delaware, but some other states have offshore characteristics)
*Uruguay
*Vanuatu [Vanuatu's Financial Services commissioner announced in May 2008 that his country would reform its laws so as to cease being a tax haven. "We've been associated with this stigma for a long time and we now aim to get away from being a tax haven." ( [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23652068-2702,00.html "Vanuatu to ditch tax haven"] , Anthony Klan, "The Australian", May 6, 2008)]
*Western Samoa
ee also
* List of Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories (FATF Blacklist)
Footnotes
External links
[http://www.imf.org/external/np/ofca/ofca.asp IMF 2000 report on offshore financial centres]
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