British Virgin Islands News

Ltd. today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.075 per share.

Hundreds of millions of dollars may have been divvied up between Angola's President, Eduardo dos Santos, and Russian and French arms dealers, in what has been called "one of the most egregious cases of financial crime and corruption encountered" by the investigative group Corruption Watch UK and the Angolan legal rights group Free Hands.

Paddy McGuffin in his G8 summit report said that David Cameron had been accused by anti-poverty campaigners of "undermining plans to tackle tax evasion."

Of the 498 entities the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists offshore leaks database throws up for the search 'India', 184 are based in Mumbai.

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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists created a database of users of international tax havens over the weekend, and the group reported Monday that database received 2 million page views in its first 24 hours of operation.

There's an interesting paper at Vox EU about the Russian money that used to flood into the Cypriot banking system.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has released the database of holders of offshore accounts in the British Virgin Islands.

On Saturday, British Prime Minister David Cameron - the host of the G8 summit - announced that 10 British protectorates have agreed to create a registry of the owners of foundations, trusts and shell firms in their jurisdictions.

The Korea Deposit Insurance Corp. and its subsidiary KRNC are mired in controversy over setting up paper companies in tax havens by former executives and employees of the two state-run financial companies.

Downing Street faces more flak over company tax arrangements after it emerged that a major Government contractor is funnelling profits into an offshore haven.

The Indian government has obtained data of investments made by hundreds of Indians in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands, the Cook Islands and Cayman Islands, some of which was part of a global media expose on offshore investments and secret financial transactions two months ago.

BEING the UK's Strongest Man, it is no surprise Eddie Hall has a whole list of impressive stats bigger than his 23in biceps.

At the G8 summit going down in Northern Ireland over the weekend, British Prime Minister David Cameron will take the opportunity to once again decry the shady role of "tax havens" across the world and talk up his leading-by-example plans to clamp down on the ostensibly nefarious tax-haven activities of Britain's crown dependencies and overseas ... (more)

Effective action at the G8 summit could see Africa reap a 'development dividend' that boosts poverty reduction and sets the region on a course for more self-reliant growth, according to the Director of the UK's leading development think tank.

THE BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE says it will investigate leads from the interactive database that reveals names of people from more than 170 countries, including the Philippines, associated with secret offshore tax havens released today by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists based in Washington, DC.

In this week's Saturday Social we share hot scenes from the CFW event held last weekend at the National Indoor Sports Arena in Kingston.

A glimpse at an enormous trove of leaked records about secret companies and accounts is being opened to the public in hope it will shed light on the murky world of offshore finance.

It highlights for the first time the huge scale of foreign investment routed through the UK's tax havens to poor countries - and the potential for abuse this causes.

CASTRIES, St Lucia -- Labour commissioners and permanent secretaries from ministries of labour in the OECS have been applauded for their high percentage turnout and participation at a recently held unprecedented two day meeting in St Lucia from June 6 to 7, 2013.