New Zealand: Tax man chases Eric Watson’s firm for $60m
By: Matt Nippert From New Zealand Herald Eric Watson’s holding company is facing demands to pay $60 million in back taxes after Inland Revenue decided its complex network of related-party loans and Cayman Island vehicles amounted to tax avoidance. The…
London offshore conference: ‘Paradise Papers’ seen as latest of myriad challenges
By: Helen Burggraf From International Investment London offshore conference: ‘Paradise Papers’ seen as latest of myriad challenges It was inevitable, says Offshore Alert founder David Marchant, that the recent Paradise Papers scandal would be a major topic of conversation at…
Axiom case exposes dysfunctional English Court system
By David Marchant From OffshoreAlert British authorities rarely fail to disappoint me by demonstrating how third world their country is whenever I try to obtain information for an investigation into financial wrongdoing. Incompetence, inefficiency, ignorance, unhelpfulness, and painstaking slowness are…
