Talk:Offshore company/Archives/2014

Misleading article
This article is at best very misleading. The article muddles between tax havens and mere foreign subsidiaries, both of which are included in this article's definition of "offshore company." The non-expert reader may read the article to imply that tax haven entities are good tax deferral/avoidance and asset protection vehicles in most major jurisdictions, which is simply false. Controlled foreign company rules, tax treaties, general anti-avoidance, and similar tax rules that prevent such deferral/avoidance in many cases should be prominent in the article, but are presently missing altogether. Legal rules for piercing corporate veils also should be prominent, but are missing.

In addition, much of the article appears to be taken from promotional materials distributed by various businesses that sell offshore incorporation services.

This article needs a huge rewrite to be usable. Comments? Sfcardwell (talk) 05:04, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

I agree, I will do some work on this in the coming period... Might take some time though. Wehugheog (talk) 19 March 2014

Rewrite - 6 September 2014
I finally got tired of it and did a rewrite of this article. I am conscious that I haven't put in as many sources as one would ideally like, so a lot of it reads like OR. I'll try and plug in citations over time, but there is a limit to how much of my Saturday I want to spend chasing down sources for the fact that Gibraltar repealed its IBC legislation etc. If anyone else is able to chip in with citiations and also help expand some of the core points that would also be great. --Legis (talk - contribs) 06:16, 6 September 2014 (UTC)