So let’s say you own an insurance company, and you want to offshore all the profits. You establish a reinsurance company in Bermuda to underwrite all your policies and charge your insurance company billions for the privilege. Now it’s a business expense so it doesn’t count as income for the insurance company. You have successfully offshored billions of dollars.
I’ve worked for big companies before that opened up shell companies in tax havens like Dublin. They literally just moved the payments to there. When they floated it to us, they said hey, we’re just not going to owe taxes anymore. We’ll save billions.
We all looked as each other and said Jesus that sounds illegal. And yet there it was and it passed muster and they went public and IPO and everything
So let’s say you own an insurance company, and you want to offshore all the profits. You establish a reinsurance company in Bermuda to underwrite all your policies and charge your insurance company billions for the privilege. Now it’s a business expense so it doesn’t count as income for the insurance company. You have successfully offshored billions of dollars.
I’ve worked for big companies before that opened up shell companies in tax havens like Dublin. They literally just moved the payments to there. When they floated it to us, they said hey, we’re just not going to owe taxes anymore. We’ll save billions.
We all looked as each other and said Jesus that sounds illegal. And yet there it was and it passed muster and they went public and IPO and everything