BVI companies and fiduciary services with OMC Group? The Law ‘On Companies’ from 2004 is the main legislative act regulating the activities of the BVI-registered offshore companies. The amendments to the Law passed in 2019 make the information about the company beneficiary owners open to the public but tax exemptions are still available and the reporting requirements are lax. Since January 1, 2019, the Law ‘On Economic Substance’ has been in effect. It is aimed at combating the practice of registering shell companies in such spheres as insurance, banking, finance management, leasing, shipment, and so on.
Insurance business means the business of undertaking liability under a contract of insurance to indemnify or compensate a person in respect of loss or damage. Including the liability to pay damages or compensation contingent upon the happening of a specified event, and includes life insurance business and reinsurance business. Could my BVI company be conducting “fund management business”? Is the company subject to any fund or securities management regulation or supervision anywhere? If “Yes”, your BVI company is conducting fund management business. Is the company licenced to sell securities, pension schemes, mutual funds or other types of investments? If “Yes”, your BVI company is conducting fund management business.
The registered agent shall be informed in a period of no more than 14 days about any changes in this information. The records and underlying documentation shall show and explain the company’s transactions and allow the financial position of the company to be determined accurately. The penalty for not fulfilling this requirement is of US$50,000. Register of Beneficial Owners: Since June 2017 the BVI Government enacted the Beneficial Ownership Secure Search System Act, 2017 (“BOSSs Act”) which creates a secure system for effective, efficient, and confidential storage of information regarding the beneficial owners of companies registered in the British Virgin Islands. The name must not include words such as bank, insurance, assurance, reinsurance, trust, trustee, cooperative, royal, imperial, municipal, chartered, building, chamber of commerce, securities, fund, or their derivatives, without a written approval of the Registrar and a special license, where required. Read additional info on BVI Companies under Struck Off.
The pressure definitely is on choosing the right place. Incorporating in a wrong jurisdiction with unsuitable policies can cost you severe consequences and a waste of resources. That’s why thorough planning and research is a must (or at least the right consultation from the real professionals). Corporate giants do this all the time. Apple, Samsung, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, they all have established offshore companies as their subsidiaries in many countries all over the world. Making use of favorable policies while still complying with them, these giants legally reduced their payable taxes by a significant amount.
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