Talk:Offshore financial centre

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Description
I have updated the description to make it more concise and accurate. There are also a phenomenal amount of in line comments which detract from the purpose of the article.

Generally I would strongly question the overall accuracy of the article. A lot of the financial information presented does not seem to join together properly and it reads as if it was written by someone who does not fully understand the financial aspects of this topic. Many points are repeated throughout and at the very least the article needs to be cut down to a reasonable size.
 * I have reverted your edit as it makes no sense, and your edit description that you have never heard of the phrase "onshore" means that you should be very careful editing this article. thanks. Britishfinance (talk) 19:27, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Consistent false information
This article - written by Britishfinance - contains consistently false, exaggerated, and distorted information that is used in a political manner to attack Ireland and its corporate tax policy. Whether Ireland's corporate tax regime is right or wrong is certainly up for debate; however, it is vitally important to keep to the facts, and that is something that this article fails to do. It must also be noted that Britishfinance has made numerous personal attacks against IDA Ireland CEO Mark Shanahan.

I recommend at the very least reading this article with severe reservations. This is an article which simply does not meet Wikipedia's standards of objectivity, accuracy and integrity. Duke Of Dirty Dancing (talk) 20:50, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Possibly the wrong definition of the term "offshore"
In the introduction paragraph the term "offshore" is explained as that it's off-the-shore because the clients are nonresidents. But in my understanding it's off-the-shore because the assets are off-the-shore of the country of origin of the clients. Say a man from the states stores 10M dollars in HSBC in Hong Kong. The 10M dollars is off the shore of the United States' jurisdiction, which makes the guy's account an offshore account. The term originated because usually authorities from one country are having headaches when investigating the storage of assets of certain people that are overseas, which they have no jurisdiction over. Theanonymity.de (talk) 09:34, 28 December 2021 (UTC)