Difference between revisions of "British Virgin Islands"
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| + | |description=[[Tax haven]] in the [[Caribbean]] | ||
|image=Flag_of_the_British_Virgin_Islands.svg | |image=Flag_of_the_British_Virgin_Islands.svg | ||
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|location=Caribbean Sea | |location=Caribbean Sea | ||
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| + | "The '''British Virgin Islands''' is home to more than 400,000 companies that hold $1.5 trillion in assets. You wouldn’t know it if you walked through Road Town, the capital of this [[Caribbean]] archipelago. Hens and roosters compete brazenly with cars on the single narrow lane of Main Street. Law firms that set up and serve thousands of offshore companies occupy modest buildings next to brightly painted wooden houses that host cheap beauty salons and clothing shops with names like Goodfellas. | ||
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| + | Besides a few mangled green street signs on Main Street, few roads are marked. The BVI doesn’t have mail delivery; its businesses and 32,000 residents use post office boxes as their addresses, which is why one P.O. box in Road Town can be the nominal home to thousands of companies from around the world. Hundreds of lawyers, accountants, and company agents work from buildings dotted around the main island of Tortola."<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-03/the-bvi-s-struggle-to-protect-its-dark-offshore-economy</ref> | ||
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| + | ==British Virgin Islands/Governor== | ||
| + | {{FA|British Virgin Islands/Governor}} | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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Latest revision as of 23:32, 31 October 2022
 British Virgin Islands  (Tax haven, Archipelago, British Overseas Territory)   | |
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| Location | Caribbean Sea |
| Leader | British Virgin Islands/Governor |
| Type |  nation state |
| Subpage | •British Virgin Islands/Governor |
| Tax haven in the Caribbean | |
"The British Virgin Islands is home to more than 400,000 companies that hold $1.5 trillion in assets. You wouldn’t know it if you walked through Road Town, the capital of this Caribbean archipelago. Hens and roosters compete brazenly with cars on the single narrow lane of Main Street. Law firms that set up and serve thousands of offshore companies occupy modest buildings next to brightly painted wooden houses that host cheap beauty salons and clothing shops with names like Goodfellas.
Besides a few mangled green street signs on Main Street, few roads are marked. The BVI doesn’t have mail delivery; its businesses and 32,000 residents use post office boxes as their addresses, which is why one P.O. box in Road Town can be the nominal home to thousands of companies from around the world. Hundreds of lawyers, accountants, and company agents work from buildings dotted around the main island of Tortola."[1]
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Related Quotation
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| Australian Broadcasting Corporation | “The Australian Broadcasting Corporation shamed the BBC by putting out a Four Corners documentary on the Panama leak that had real balls. In stark contrast to the BBC, the Australians named and shamed Australia’s biggest company and Australia’s biggest foreign investor. BBC Panorama by contrast found a guy who sold one house in Islington. The Australians also, unlike the BBC who deliberately and knowing hid it, pointed out that the corruption centred on the British Virgin Islands, and even went there. All in all an excellent job.” | April 2016 |
