(1) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(2) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(3) How is it acceptable the prime minister has investments sitting in the Cayman Islands, every time the Liberal party votes against tax transparency, remember there is a house in the Cayman Islands, a house where Malcolm’s money resides.” The government is seeking to scrap transparency requirements for privately held companies with an income of $100m or more.
(4) The additional meeting is not now going ahead, the Cayman Islands government has confirmed to the Guardian.
(5) By far the biggest earners were Manchester United; the accounts for the main United company, registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven, showed income of £515m.
(6) I’m a tax exile.” The high-profile property developer – who with his brother, Nick, developed the superluxe One Hyde Park apartment complex for London’s oligarchs and is now converting a row of seven houses overlooking Regent’s Park into a single 4,600 sq metre London mansion – even named his twins Isabella Monaco Evanthia and Cayman Charles Wolf.
(7) Simmons also noted that: “In general, regulatory intervention in Bermuda is considered slightly heavier than in some other offshore jurisdictions.” The memo also highlights the advantages of operating in the Cayman Islands.
(8) "Banks use tax havens extensively not just to avoid tax and to help their private banking clients, but also to avoid regulation by mainstream financial centres, which is the attraction of creating shadow banks in offshore centres like Cayman, Jersey and Luxembourg," said John Christensen, director of the Tax Justice Network.
(9) The US has overtaken Singapore, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands as an attractive haven for super-rich individuals and businesses looking to shelter assets behind a veil of secrecy, according to a study by the Tax Justice Network (TJN).
(10) It absolutely minimises off-target effects.” Initial trials in the Cayman Islands showed a reduction in the female populationof 90%.
(11) Theoretically on paper everyone could put $1m into the Cayman Islands.
(12) Bill Shorten has argued Labor’s focus on Malcolm Turnbull’s investment in funds registered in the Cayman Islands is not about any allegation of criminality, but whether leaders can understand the plight of ordinary Australians.
(13) In an extraordinary turn of events, the 51-year-old followed the claims by revealing he had hired forensic accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers to investigate the payments made to a relatively unknown firm called Axes and its Cayman affiliate, Axam.
(14) Of the 10 jurisdictions flagged on the scorecard for their low tax rate, eight are British overseas territories or crown dependencies: Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
(15) The 164-page US Department of Justice indictment, outlining the case against the 14 football officials and marketing executives who were arrested last week, shows that three of Britain’s overseas territories – the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos, all tax havens – allegedly played a part in masking kickbacks between officials and executives.
(16) He added that he would send a letter this weekend to British overseas territories – Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Gibraltar and Montserrat – and the crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
(17) Britain’s own array of satellite havens – the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands , Bermuda, Jersey, all of which sport the Queen on their banknotes – are part of the same problem.
(18) A report compiled for the committee detailed how HSBC's subsidiaries transported billions of dollars of cash in armoured vehicles, cleared suspicious travellers' cheques worth billions, and allowed Mexican drug lords buy to planes with money laundered through Cayman Islands accounts.
(19) The Trinidadian, at that time CFU’s president, sub-licensed those rights to his own Cayman Islands-registered company J & D International (JDI), according to the Press Association.
(20) Malcolm Turnbull has launched a forceful defence of his investments in funds registered in the Cayman Islands , while condemning Labor for mounting a “shabby smear campaign” about his personal wealth, based on “the politics of envy”.
Sayman
Definition:
(n.) One who assays.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Yusuf Sayman for the Guardian The yard smells of waste because of the nearby dumpsters, which residents leave open for the many cats and dogs that now roam the city, having been abandoned by their owners.
(2) Photograph: Yusuf Sayman for the Guardian Denis and Zhenya live in a two-room apartment with her father, disabled mother, sister and their three boys, a one-year-old and three-year-old twins.
(3) Photograph: Yusuf Sayman for the Guardian Katya and Gleb try not to leave their neighbourhood in case shelling starts.