Tax evasion by individuals with unreported offshore financial accounts was estimated by one IRS commissioner to be several tens of billions of dollars, but no precise figure exists. By law, U.S. citizens are required to report world-wide income from all sources, including income from offshore accounts. While taxpayers can hold offshore accounts for a number of legitimate reasons, some use them to illegally reduce their tax liabilities, often by not reporting the income earned on these accounts. The IRS has operated four offshore programs since 2003 that offered incentives for taxpayers to disclose their offshore accounts and pay delinquent taxes, interest and penalties. This book examines the nature of the non-compliance of the 2009 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) participants; the extent the IRS used the 2009 ODVP to prevent non-compliance; and assesses the IRS's efforts to detect taxpayers trying to circumvent taxes, interests, and penalties that would otherwise be owed.

Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Tax Havens Today arms you with the knowledge, strategies, and contacts needed to avoid expensive mistakes and make the most of your offshore endeavors. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this timely resource will bring you completely up to speed on a variety of issues that anyone aspiring to go offshore must be familiar with.

Save a couple hundred dollars in consultancy through this book. Tax havens can allow you to llegally reduce your tax bill, access a wide range of tax treaties, open a secret and tax free bank account, protect your assets and make them lawsuit proof out of creditors reach, start your own bank or insurance company without a lot of bureaucracy, obtain a second passport with just an investment and no minimum stay required, access to foreign investment opportunities which might not be legal in your country of residency such as opening an online casino or cryptocurrency exchange, easy vessel registry, bypass capital controls. Some people even use them for illegal purposes such as tax evasion, money laundering, bribe, terrorism financing.The content herein covers from international taxation concepts, to legal and illegal uses of tax havens, as well as the features of some of the most popular tax friendly jurisdictions. You will also find out the biggest tax havens are not islands.Chapter 1 International Taxation Concepts: Worldwide VS Territorial Tax System, Tax Residency, Wire Transfers VS Payment Gateways, CFC Rules, Profit Shifting, Double Irish Dutch Sandwich Tax Avoidance Explained, Legality of offshore companies, How to by-pass third world countries' banking restrictions, Death of bearer shares, Financial Secrecy Index, Nominee Director/Shareholders, Registered Address and Agent, Local Directors, Withholding Tax, Trust Structure.Chapter 2 Legal and Illegal Offshore Activities: Access to foreign investments and market opportunities, Initial Coin Offerings and Cryptocurrency Exchange, Vessel Registry, Bypass Capital Controls, Tax Avoidance, Asset Protection, Treaty shopping, Citizenship by Investment Programs, Tax Evasion, Money Laundering, Bribe, Terrorism Financing.Chapter 3 Offshore Company Incorporation: United States, Cook Islands, United Kingdom, Singapore, Cayman Islands, Belize, Monaco, Costa Rica, Switzerland, Panama, Nevis.

"Dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system describe the ugliest and most secretive chapter in the history of global economic affairs. Tax havens have declared war on honest, law-abiding people around the world. Wealthy individuals hold over ten trillion dollars offshore. Tax havens are the most important single reason why poor people and poor countries stay poor. Britain and the United States are the world's two most important tax havens. Tax havens now lie at the very heart of the global economy. Over half of world trade, and most international lending, is processed through them. Tax havens have been instrumental in nearly every major economic event, in every big financial scandal, and in every financial crisis since the 1970s, including the latest global economic crisis. "Treasure Islands" show how this happens and reveal what the economics text books will not tell you."

Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers—from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru— amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and multinational corporate financial holdings. Delving into the scandals, the financial structure, and the history of this hidden side of globalization, sociologist Alain Deneault depicts something larger and more ominous than simple “tax havens” where financial elites and corporations must reside X days out of every calendar year to protect their earnings. Instead, Offshore describes a global base of operations from which massive criminal enterprises and corrupt corporations operate freely and with impunity, menacing developing nations and advanced democracies alike.