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Offshore
Investment: Country-by-Country
Analysis of Offshore Trusts
Descriptive Notes And Contents List
The
Trusts report studies the 20 top jurisdictions
which offer trust regimes. It's a fairly well
known fact that the trust originated in England
many hundreds of years ago, and that its purpose
was to preserve assets against depredations
occurring through death, matrimonial and family
squabbles, spendthrift descendants and the like.
Taxation at death was one of the incidents that
trusts were effective against, but they were
not particularly designed to guard against the
taxation of income or capital during the settlor's
life, because such taxes were not a major threat
to wealth at the time, and anyway a domestic
trust was a taxable person in itself. Now the
trust is a major component of asset protection
structures, as well as having many business
uses.
CONTENTS
Offshore Trust Regimes
Introduction: The History of Offshore Trusts
Development of Professional Competence in the Jurisdictions
What Future for the Trust
The Jurisdictions
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands Cook Islands
Cyprus Gibraltar Guernsey
Isle of
Man
Jersey
Liechtenstein
Madeira
Malta
Mauritius Monaco Panama Seychelles Turks &
Caicos Vanuatu
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Introduction: The History of Offshore Trusts