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There was a time when Anjouan had a (temporär) finansmarknad (Borta sedan 2005). En annan är fortfarande online: called the MISA (Mwali internationella servicemyndighet). Webbplatsen och lagarna är på engelska: whereas the official language of the country is French. This Authority is completely fake, och är knuten till ön Mohéli. Everything is fake, including this fake bank. En varning har publicerats sedan april 2014 by the Central Bank of the Comoros (även om det bara är på franska). Listan över licensierade banker finns här: Det finns bara 4 banker i landet. Det finns till och med en ... Read more

What do LLCs, LLPs, S-Corps, and Partnerships have in common? They are all pass-through entities (simply: not subject to a corporate taxation). Under a new Trump tax proposal, the pass-through entities status will be revoked and will be taxed at a 15% federal tax rate. Such plan will immediately transform all LLCs in the US into a corporation, as federal corporate tax is concerned. This however is to be compensated by switching the US to a territorial tax system. First of all: at the time of writing, these proposals have not been approved nor been passed as a law yet. It ... Read more

Belize started as a low cost jurisdiction in a highly international competitive market: the market of incorporating companies. This is one of those bad April fools. According to Belize Statutory Instrument No. 11 av 2016 – International Business Companies (Fees) Regulations 2016, the licence fee of Belize International Business Companies (IBCs) has been increased from US$100 to US$200.

The State of Delaware makes US$16 billion out of corporate fees alone (2015 report). This is the GDP of Malta or Iceland. Despite this, it took them 3 months to process a regular corporate document sent to the Division of Corporations: from October 2016 to January 2017. If you want a faster proceeding you have to pay an extra US$100 for the 24-hour expedited service (on the top of the US$200 for the filling). For that price you have a new company in Wyoming. Oh yeah, and don’t forget to send your documents by post to the Delaware Division of Corporation, or use ... Read more

De flesta IBC i Belize är förmodligen olagliga på grund av detta: §73.(4) A company incorporated under this Act shall have a common seal and an imprint thereof shall be kept at the registered office of the company. (5) Ett företag som uppsåtligen bryter mot denna paragraf riskerar att dömas till ett vite av $25 för varje dag eller del därav under vilken överträdelsen fortsätter, och en styrelseledamot som medvetet tillåter överträdelsen är ansvarig för en liknande påföljd. Källa: Belize IBC Act. The United Kingdom abolished the practice of mandatory use of company common seals since 1985… Konstigt nog, in their LLC ... Read more

It is a classic in philosophy, and even in some religious texts: “your biggest enemy is yourself“. For that matter the Seychelles fell on its own on the 26th July, 2016, in force since the 1st of November, 2016: Section 119 of the Act requires that: an IBC to make an annual declaration that the IBC is keeping accounting records in accordance with the Act and that such records can be made available through its registered agent. Section 119 of the Act requires that: every IBC to furnish a return (either in original or scanned copies) in the form of a declaration ... Read more

It is sad to see that in the British Virgin Islands (BVI (Brittiska Jungfru)) you cannot search online for a company name… For this privilege you have to fill a form & pay US$30, send it by snail mail or email and wait for the answer back… Where are we? In this day & age when information is acquired very fast: you will spend less time acquiring knowledge about superconductivity than getting information on a company on the register in the BVI. The BVI Finance Services Commission (BVIFSC), despite having US$2.8 million in surplus (2014 report), is not even able to put ... Read more

The Botswana IFSC set up-up in 2003 is dead, today only a 5 pages website with completely outdated information is up. The IFSC death was already announced back in 2010 because South Africa restricted inward investments and is already a developed financial centre. The agencies that took over are: the BITC (Botwana Investment & Trade Centre) for normal trading businesses, and the NBFIRA (Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority) for the Financial services like stockbrokers, funds, & (re)insurances. The IFSC laws were guaranteed until 2020 anyway, so with 3 little years to go, probably no more companies will be attracted. Neighbors such as ... Read more

Back in 2014 we (freely) advised to stay away from the iCommerceRegistry of the Gambia. The website is still online but the content is gone with only this red message: “Due to current technical duties iCommerceRegistry is unable to accept any new agents at this time“. In August 2016: Streber published an announcement from the Ministry of Justice of the Gambia confirming the illegitimate operation (this press release is a dead link today). The iCommerceRegistry adventure lasted 2 years (very short!). This is probably what happened (which is common across Africa): maybe the start of operation was legit, but the Gambia (corrupt) ... Read more

We saw in the year 2015 that a rush of companies from Nevada transferred to Wyoming. We found out why in 2 blog posts entitled: The Nevada Corporation is Officially Dead : in 2015 the annual Business License fee was jacked up from US$200 to US$500 (a 150% increase!), making it the most expensive state to maintain a company. Nevada Business License : even worse, in 2009 the Nevada Secretary of State now requires everyone who has never filed a Nevada business license will now have to pay ALL the years back, plus late fees! So that explains why the number ... Read more