Offshore tax-free zone - Bahamas

Bahamas - a traditional and well-known tax-free offshore zone related to "tax havens". This jurisdiction excludes from taxation income tax registered companies and has a favorable currency-financial legislation.

The basic form of the companies recorded in the Bahamas - an international trade company, which in many ways resembles a corporation. International Business Company, functioning in the offshore regime is engaged in commercial activities outside the territory of its incorporation, and only with foreign citizens and companies for that jurisdiction.  

The company enjoys the following benefits:

- Full exemption from all local taxes; 

- The lack of requirements for the provision of administrative and accounting information of the annual financial report and audit;
 
- Complete confidentiality and anonymity is achieved by the release of the company's owners of bearer shares without par value, the ability to access this log is only available for registered shareholders or by court order; 

- To ensure the maximum safety of investments, including a change of registered office, the ability to transfer capital to another country, as well as merger and acquisition by another company; 

- Allowed to have one shareholder meeting of the Board of Directors and the annual meeting of shareholders are optional and can be performed outside of the jurisdiction of incorporation of the company; 

- Financial records can be stored in any country; 

- The date of registration is from three to five days, its cost - about two thousand dollars, and annual fees do not exceed five thousand dollars 

In the Bahamas registered more than 9 thousand companies.