"Offshore Wars"!
Probably not among the readers of the VO man, who would not meet the "scary" word "offshore" or "offshore business." So my students ALL heard about him and know that this is “bad.” Some even knew that "they do not pay taxes there." But how is it possible and why, where did this business come from, of course, nobody knew. Even at the Faculty of Economics!
Offshore map.
Meanwhile, modern life is such that to know, albeit a little, but about everything. And this knowledge should be comprehensive and of high quality. Therefore, it makes sense to tell in detail about the offshore business, especially since it is very powerful. weapon modern economic wars.
First of all, a little about how I relate to it. The most direct. When in the 1998 year in the country everything collapsed once again, and the university did not pay a salary for three months, it was necessary to somehow survive. And then I came across an announcement that the English company Swenson and Brown is recruiting regional representatives to work on opening offshore companies. It seemed to me interesting, and I sent a resume there. He came up and ... got a very valuable thing - a folder with documents, which told in detail how, how, where and from where. I learned all this and ... started working! That is, I went to Penza enterprises and persuaded them to open offshore companies or to acquire citizenship of Canada, Australia, Bolivia, Paraguay and Colombia. The company also provided this service.
I looked very impressive - a leather cap "a la Luzhkov", a winter leather jacket of American pilots with a fur collar (bought through some fashion magazine), plaid pants in a red-black-green cage from Scotland, bought in one of the first of our boutiques - in a word, our Penza firms immediately saw that they came to ... "a regional representative of a British company."
I have completely lost all respect for our businessmen after meeting them. They opened their mouths, looked at my outfit and ... no one asked me for any documents! They honestly confessed to me that they had a “black cash” (and I could have been a tax agent!), That they were treating the tax authorities with cake and champagne (!), That bribes the officials (!!!), that is, the first comer opened the soul wide open But ... no one agreed to open an offshore company. No one! And you think out of a sense of patriotism? H-ee! The reasons were the following: “we don’t know English” (as if one cannot hire a translator from a girl?), “We are afraid that we will be thrown!” (Well, of course, what we are doing, and we are waiting for others!) all this! "(that is, the mind is only enough for" buy-sell "). That was easier with passports. You say: “Look around ... The Communists will come back, they will take everything away and hang on the first bitch!” After that, the person immediately laid out a rather large amount of money on the passport of Bolivian citizen Senor Juana Julio or Echcheveria Ramona Mendoza and ... reassured listening to my explanation that now, if anything, you just need to get to the embassy of Bolivia and present this passport there.
Then I thought up lecturing businessmen about the offshore business, how to open it and what it is (a kind of educational program), and ... for tax officials about the same thing (a kind of educational program) - how to calculate those who deal with it. Three years had to do this, and then the situation improved, but experience and knowledge remained. And such that not every textbook could be read about it.
So where did the offshore business go from? At the beginning of the 20 century, the export of capital abroad allowed Lenin to be included in one of the hallmarks of imperialism. But then a legal incident arose: where should an Englishman pay income taxes if he has a company, well, let's say, is open in Russia? In England, after all, he is a subject of the British crown? In Russia, where is its plant? But he is not a subject of Russia, and in England he does not receive a profit! And double taxation is illegal, it interferes with business!
And here the cunning Englishmen remembered that they had a lot of small and also green islands around their green and large island, where there are no useful resources, but for some reason people live. They need schools, hospitals, ferries, bridges. And this is all money, money, money. And where to get them? And they decided to plant these territories for self-sufficiency, allowing the enterprises registered for them not to pay profit tax, no matter how big it is. But at the same time, the off-shore company (“offshore” means off-shore, that is, outside the main coast of the country) must pay an annual fixed tax at the place of registration. Gradually, developed international legislation on offshore business was created, the essence of which, briefly, boils down to several rather amusing provisions. So, registering a company in an offshore zone, you are based on the principle of free ownership of property, that is, you can be homeless in Russia, but have a company in the Cayman Islands. Russian law does not prohibit this. Just do not tell anyone about it and ... everything! However, you can not live at the place of registration of the company. You can earn money there, but you can’t live, and why this is understandable. Live - be kind, register and pay taxes!
That is, if you own an offshore company, then you live in one place, and your company is always in another!
But ... but where does she get you, if you can not go there? But for this there are intermediary firms that open such companies. How? And this is how: on the spot, well, let's say, on the same Cayman Islands there is a certain lord Augusto de Bordelly Motambo (half-Spanish, half-French-semi-African), who is found by the intermediary company and who becomes your companion. Two shares are issued - to him and to you, two sets of documents for the ownership of the company, that is, absolutely everything according to the law, and according to the law, all this is registered. That is, according to the documents, your company is owned by two people: this Augusto's senor and Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov. For opening a company, you pay an intermediary firm and tax in favor of the Cayman Islands. In 1998, it was a ridiculous amount - from one to two thousand dollars, but it was necessary to renew registration every year. That is, every year the islands dripped from you little by little, but regularly. Today, this pleasure has become more accessible: Seychelles - from 349 dollars, Belize - 519, British Virgin Islands - 549, St. Vincent and the Grenadines - from 1120, the company in Singapore is expensive - 6000, but there is paradise. You do not like a person with a narrow slit of the eye? In New Zealand it costs 1500 dollars. That is - every whim for your money! For a year! Package documents and print!
But the most interesting will be next. Immediately after registering, your partner is obliged by special letter to waive all rights to manage the company, for which he receives an annual rent from your own payments. And you become the sole owner of the company and can do with it anything you want! But ... while you can act on behalf of your partner. After all, that he refused everything in your favor, nobody knows. And so it turns out that you have a firm, and it seems like no. And if you trade from her, then ... as her hired employee, Mr. Julio, and not her owner.
Isn't it a very convenient way of working for local people? For example, in one of the offshore cities of the United States, and there are offshore Indian reservations, individual cities and even states, there is a law that a company must have a telephone and an office. And so the women there rent a room, register themselves in hundreds of offshore companies and ... "work." They sit in the office, knit, talk on the phone, watch TV, and on occasion - if someone calls "on business," they say that "Mr. Ivanov" is ... "far away, and it is difficult to contact him ...".
In this case, the most important thing is that here at the place of registration there is an offshore bank, where you transfer all your profits, and you do not pay taxes on it at all. Therefore, for example, if Swiss banks give 3% per annum, some offshore banks - up to 27%. In England, citizens are forbidden to keep money in offshore banks. This is considered a crime. But ... 30% of the British keep money in them. They leave England, open accounts there and ... bypass the law. “Fish is looking for where it is deeper, and man is where it is better!” In Canada, the offshore zone is Newfoundland Island, where there are only stones. But ... because of this, he has a steady income. There are a lot of offshore zones in the world. In addition to the above, these are the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, Panama, the well-known Cyprus, where I don’t remember for what year, but only Russian 15 thousands of companies were registered, as well as Gibraltar (offshore from the century!), Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Liberia, Malta, Maldives, Macau, Montserrat, USA again ... in short, the network of off-shore zones has entangled the whole world. And in the US, the examples of such offshore zones are the states of Delaware and Oregon, which are official offshore zones.
They believe that, although no one has calculated this for sure, it is in offshore that 60% of world finance is hidden! Here you have the money for weapons and what you want. And that is why all the offshore business is scolded, trying to fight him, but ... so until the end of nowhere and never refuse him. Control money laundering - yes, funding drug traffickers and terrorism - yes, but completely ban - n-ee! Very much profitable!
Now we come to the most interesting. To the money! Where do they come from? But from where: Imagine you have two pockets. Taxes are taken from one, and not from another. Where will you keep the money? Of course, in the second. From here comes the profit. There are many schemes to enrich the offshore business. For example, you want to immediately withdraw a large amount of money from the country to an offshore bank at 27% per annum. How to do it? Indeed, the amount of transfers abroad is limited ... And very simple. Your company here enters into a contract for the supply of expensive equipment with your company "there." But, of course, no one knows that this is a contract with itself. Condition - 100% prepayment. You transfer money under the contract, and your “partner” “throws” you. You go to court, and the court decides the case in your favor. You get a writ of execution and ... everything, your money. Another option is similar to this one: you organize a joint venture and import goods into the country for its work at a reduced rate. Then ... your partner leaves the JV and everything remains for you. You can already sell everything at full value. If you do not do this every three months, then no one will suspect anything. Or ... you (Juanito Julio) buy goods there for one price and pay for them through an offshore. In Russia, Juanito Julio sells you a product twice as expensive. You pay him (that is, yourself) offshore, and here you make a minimum markup on him. Minimum markup - the minimum income tax. That is, in the eyes of the tax authorities, you are a bad merchant, but in reality ... very good! And this can be done by both very large companies and very small ones!
Finally, the most "beautiful" option. You organize an investment company and offer to make deposits at ... 15% per annum. All by 12, 5%, and you are 15%! In a currency for a year. Not less than a thousand dollars, but more. Deposits are made out officially, with a notary, and people give you money as an official. Then, as a private person, you send them to your offshore bank. Of course, it is troublesome, it’s a fuss. But it's worth it. Exactly one year later, again, as a private individual, you send this money to yourself. And you give them to the borrower as ... official face. Everyone sees that you have an honest investment company. Where was the money all this time - your trade secret. And no one cares about you, because you pay all the taxes.
Only now you got 27%, and gave ... 15. 12% - “money out of thin air” - this is your real profit minus taxes, but in this case they are small!
So, this offshore business is the “sacred cow”, which, in general, cannot be insulted. Get on the Internet and you will see many offers to open offshore companies. And if there are offers, it means in stock and demand!
By the way, incognito in offshore zones is strictly protected. In the Cayman Islands, for example, trying to uncover it is punishable by eight weeks in prison. And there are prisons there ... that it is better not to get there!
Of course, in reality everything is far from being as simple as it is written here. An offshore business, like any serious business, requires studying, training, having many professional skills and high intelligence. The Ministry of Finance, by the way, is also not sleeping. There is a so-called “black list” of the Ministry of Finance, which includes most of the offshore zones and is constantly updated. Transactions concluded with companies registered in these zones are deemed to be controlled with all the ensuing consequences. However, some territories are excluded from it. For example, in the 2009, the Seychelles, who tightened their legislation, were excluded, then the island of Cyprus in 2013, and the Republic of Malta in 2015. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has its own list of offshore zones and there ... "its own difficulties". So, as in the war, here we see the age-old confrontation of sword and shield, a war without beginning and without end, without winners and without defeated, since both victories and defeats are short-lived. And it is only up to the professionalism of the people participating in it that it is necessary to conduct matters so that there are more victories in it, and less defeats, respectively.
Offshore map.
Meanwhile, modern life is such that to know, albeit a little, but about everything. And this knowledge should be comprehensive and of high quality. Therefore, it makes sense to tell in detail about the offshore business, especially since it is very powerful. weapon modern economic wars.
First of all, a little about how I relate to it. The most direct. When in the 1998 year in the country everything collapsed once again, and the university did not pay a salary for three months, it was necessary to somehow survive. And then I came across an announcement that the English company Swenson and Brown is recruiting regional representatives to work on opening offshore companies. It seemed to me interesting, and I sent a resume there. He came up and ... got a very valuable thing - a folder with documents, which told in detail how, how, where and from where. I learned all this and ... started working! That is, I went to Penza enterprises and persuaded them to open offshore companies or to acquire citizenship of Canada, Australia, Bolivia, Paraguay and Colombia. The company also provided this service.
I looked very impressive - a leather cap "a la Luzhkov", a winter leather jacket of American pilots with a fur collar (bought through some fashion magazine), plaid pants in a red-black-green cage from Scotland, bought in one of the first of our boutiques - in a word, our Penza firms immediately saw that they came to ... "a regional representative of a British company."
I have completely lost all respect for our businessmen after meeting them. They opened their mouths, looked at my outfit and ... no one asked me for any documents! They honestly confessed to me that they had a “black cash” (and I could have been a tax agent!), That they were treating the tax authorities with cake and champagne (!), That bribes the officials (!!!), that is, the first comer opened the soul wide open But ... no one agreed to open an offshore company. No one! And you think out of a sense of patriotism? H-ee! The reasons were the following: “we don’t know English” (as if one cannot hire a translator from a girl?), “We are afraid that we will be thrown!” (Well, of course, what we are doing, and we are waiting for others!) all this! "(that is, the mind is only enough for" buy-sell "). That was easier with passports. You say: “Look around ... The Communists will come back, they will take everything away and hang on the first bitch!” After that, the person immediately laid out a rather large amount of money on the passport of Bolivian citizen Senor Juana Julio or Echcheveria Ramona Mendoza and ... reassured listening to my explanation that now, if anything, you just need to get to the embassy of Bolivia and present this passport there.
Then I thought up lecturing businessmen about the offshore business, how to open it and what it is (a kind of educational program), and ... for tax officials about the same thing (a kind of educational program) - how to calculate those who deal with it. Three years had to do this, and then the situation improved, but experience and knowledge remained. And such that not every textbook could be read about it.
So where did the offshore business go from? At the beginning of the 20 century, the export of capital abroad allowed Lenin to be included in one of the hallmarks of imperialism. But then a legal incident arose: where should an Englishman pay income taxes if he has a company, well, let's say, is open in Russia? In England, after all, he is a subject of the British crown? In Russia, where is its plant? But he is not a subject of Russia, and in England he does not receive a profit! And double taxation is illegal, it interferes with business!
And here the cunning Englishmen remembered that they had a lot of small and also green islands around their green and large island, where there are no useful resources, but for some reason people live. They need schools, hospitals, ferries, bridges. And this is all money, money, money. And where to get them? And they decided to plant these territories for self-sufficiency, allowing the enterprises registered for them not to pay profit tax, no matter how big it is. But at the same time, the off-shore company (“offshore” means off-shore, that is, outside the main coast of the country) must pay an annual fixed tax at the place of registration. Gradually, developed international legislation on offshore business was created, the essence of which, briefly, boils down to several rather amusing provisions. So, registering a company in an offshore zone, you are based on the principle of free ownership of property, that is, you can be homeless in Russia, but have a company in the Cayman Islands. Russian law does not prohibit this. Just do not tell anyone about it and ... everything! However, you can not live at the place of registration of the company. You can earn money there, but you can’t live, and why this is understandable. Live - be kind, register and pay taxes!
That is, if you own an offshore company, then you live in one place, and your company is always in another!
But ... but where does she get you, if you can not go there? But for this there are intermediary firms that open such companies. How? And this is how: on the spot, well, let's say, on the same Cayman Islands there is a certain lord Augusto de Bordelly Motambo (half-Spanish, half-French-semi-African), who is found by the intermediary company and who becomes your companion. Two shares are issued - to him and to you, two sets of documents for the ownership of the company, that is, absolutely everything according to the law, and according to the law, all this is registered. That is, according to the documents, your company is owned by two people: this Augusto's senor and Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov. For opening a company, you pay an intermediary firm and tax in favor of the Cayman Islands. In 1998, it was a ridiculous amount - from one to two thousand dollars, but it was necessary to renew registration every year. That is, every year the islands dripped from you little by little, but regularly. Today, this pleasure has become more accessible: Seychelles - from 349 dollars, Belize - 519, British Virgin Islands - 549, St. Vincent and the Grenadines - from 1120, the company in Singapore is expensive - 6000, but there is paradise. You do not like a person with a narrow slit of the eye? In New Zealand it costs 1500 dollars. That is - every whim for your money! For a year! Package documents and print!
But the most interesting will be next. Immediately after registering, your partner is obliged by special letter to waive all rights to manage the company, for which he receives an annual rent from your own payments. And you become the sole owner of the company and can do with it anything you want! But ... while you can act on behalf of your partner. After all, that he refused everything in your favor, nobody knows. And so it turns out that you have a firm, and it seems like no. And if you trade from her, then ... as her hired employee, Mr. Julio, and not her owner.
Isn't it a very convenient way of working for local people? For example, in one of the offshore cities of the United States, and there are offshore Indian reservations, individual cities and even states, there is a law that a company must have a telephone and an office. And so the women there rent a room, register themselves in hundreds of offshore companies and ... "work." They sit in the office, knit, talk on the phone, watch TV, and on occasion - if someone calls "on business," they say that "Mr. Ivanov" is ... "far away, and it is difficult to contact him ...".
In this case, the most important thing is that here at the place of registration there is an offshore bank, where you transfer all your profits, and you do not pay taxes on it at all. Therefore, for example, if Swiss banks give 3% per annum, some offshore banks - up to 27%. In England, citizens are forbidden to keep money in offshore banks. This is considered a crime. But ... 30% of the British keep money in them. They leave England, open accounts there and ... bypass the law. “Fish is looking for where it is deeper, and man is where it is better!” In Canada, the offshore zone is Newfoundland Island, where there are only stones. But ... because of this, he has a steady income. There are a lot of offshore zones in the world. In addition to the above, these are the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, Panama, the well-known Cyprus, where I don’t remember for what year, but only Russian 15 thousands of companies were registered, as well as Gibraltar (offshore from the century!), Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Liberia, Malta, Maldives, Macau, Montserrat, USA again ... in short, the network of off-shore zones has entangled the whole world. And in the US, the examples of such offshore zones are the states of Delaware and Oregon, which are official offshore zones.
They believe that, although no one has calculated this for sure, it is in offshore that 60% of world finance is hidden! Here you have the money for weapons and what you want. And that is why all the offshore business is scolded, trying to fight him, but ... so until the end of nowhere and never refuse him. Control money laundering - yes, funding drug traffickers and terrorism - yes, but completely ban - n-ee! Very much profitable!
Now we come to the most interesting. To the money! Where do they come from? But from where: Imagine you have two pockets. Taxes are taken from one, and not from another. Where will you keep the money? Of course, in the second. From here comes the profit. There are many schemes to enrich the offshore business. For example, you want to immediately withdraw a large amount of money from the country to an offshore bank at 27% per annum. How to do it? Indeed, the amount of transfers abroad is limited ... And very simple. Your company here enters into a contract for the supply of expensive equipment with your company "there." But, of course, no one knows that this is a contract with itself. Condition - 100% prepayment. You transfer money under the contract, and your “partner” “throws” you. You go to court, and the court decides the case in your favor. You get a writ of execution and ... everything, your money. Another option is similar to this one: you organize a joint venture and import goods into the country for its work at a reduced rate. Then ... your partner leaves the JV and everything remains for you. You can already sell everything at full value. If you do not do this every three months, then no one will suspect anything. Or ... you (Juanito Julio) buy goods there for one price and pay for them through an offshore. In Russia, Juanito Julio sells you a product twice as expensive. You pay him (that is, yourself) offshore, and here you make a minimum markup on him. Minimum markup - the minimum income tax. That is, in the eyes of the tax authorities, you are a bad merchant, but in reality ... very good! And this can be done by both very large companies and very small ones!
Finally, the most "beautiful" option. You organize an investment company and offer to make deposits at ... 15% per annum. All by 12, 5%, and you are 15%! In a currency for a year. Not less than a thousand dollars, but more. Deposits are made out officially, with a notary, and people give you money as an official. Then, as a private person, you send them to your offshore bank. Of course, it is troublesome, it’s a fuss. But it's worth it. Exactly one year later, again, as a private individual, you send this money to yourself. And you give them to the borrower as ... official face. Everyone sees that you have an honest investment company. Where was the money all this time - your trade secret. And no one cares about you, because you pay all the taxes.
Only now you got 27%, and gave ... 15. 12% - “money out of thin air” - this is your real profit minus taxes, but in this case they are small!
So, this offshore business is the “sacred cow”, which, in general, cannot be insulted. Get on the Internet and you will see many offers to open offshore companies. And if there are offers, it means in stock and demand!
By the way, incognito in offshore zones is strictly protected. In the Cayman Islands, for example, trying to uncover it is punishable by eight weeks in prison. And there are prisons there ... that it is better not to get there!
Of course, in reality everything is far from being as simple as it is written here. An offshore business, like any serious business, requires studying, training, having many professional skills and high intelligence. The Ministry of Finance, by the way, is also not sleeping. There is a so-called “black list” of the Ministry of Finance, which includes most of the offshore zones and is constantly updated. Transactions concluded with companies registered in these zones are deemed to be controlled with all the ensuing consequences. However, some territories are excluded from it. For example, in the 2009, the Seychelles, who tightened their legislation, were excluded, then the island of Cyprus in 2013, and the Republic of Malta in 2015. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has its own list of offshore zones and there ... "its own difficulties". So, as in the war, here we see the age-old confrontation of sword and shield, a war without beginning and without end, without winners and without defeated, since both victories and defeats are short-lived. And it is only up to the professionalism of the people participating in it that it is necessary to conduct matters so that there are more victories in it, and less defeats, respectively.
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