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Cyprus International Trusts

Contributed by CS&P Fiduciaire
Cyprus has long been established and recognised internationally as a healthy offshore financial centre for shipping, banking and corporate business. The demand for practical international tax planning solutions by entrepreneurs continues to increase, and the choice of location for the operation of their businesses plays a key role in their decisions.
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The Report

Offshore Trusts Guide: Introduction

• The History of Offshore Trusts
• Development of Professional Competence in the Jurisdictions
• What Future for the Trust?
• The New Age of Transparency
• The Swiss Association of Trust Companies
• The Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners

Offshore Trusts Guide: Jurisdictions

• Bahamas: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Bahamas: 2006 Private Trust Companies Legislation

• Barbados: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Barbados: Supervisory and Licensing Regime and Fees

• Bermuda: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Bermuda: Supervisory and Licensing Regime and Fees

• British Virgin Islands: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• British Virgin Islands: Special Trusts Act 2003
• British Virgin Islands: The Trustee Act 2003
• British Virgin Islands: :Supervisory and Licensing Regime and Fees
• British Virgin Islands: New Laws on Private Trust Companies
• British Virgin Islands: New Private Trust Company Regulations

• Cayman Islands: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Cayman Islands: Supervisory and Licensing Regime and Fees

• Cook Islands: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Cook Islands: Supervisory and Licensing Regime and Fees

• Cyprus: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Cyprus: Supervision, Licensing and Tax

• Gibraltar: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Gibraltar: Legislation, Regulation and Supervision

• Guernsey: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Guernsey: Trusts Law 2007

• Isle of Man: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Isle of Man: Supervisory and Licensing Regime
• Isle of Man: Uses Clients and Tax Treatment

• Jersey: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Jersey: Supervisory and Licensing Regime
• Jersey: Trusts Amendment Act 2006
• Jersey: Foundations

• Liechtenstein: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Liechtenstein: Regulation Supervision and Transparency
• Liechtenstein: Characteristics of Liechtenstein Trusts
• Liechtenstein: Foundations

• Madeira: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees

• Malta: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Malta: The Trust and Trustees Act 2004

• Mauritius: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Mauritius: Characteristics of the 2001 Trusts Act
• Mauritius: Additional Provisions of the 2001 Trusts Act
• Mauritius: Tax Treatment

• Monaco: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees

• Nevis: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees

• New Zealand: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• New Zealand: Review of the Law of Trusts
• New Zealand: Taxation of Trusts

• Panama: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Panama: Requirements for Acting as Trust Company in Panama

• Seychelles: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees

• Turks & Caicos: Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees
• Turks & Caicos: The Voidable Dispositions Ordinance

• Vanuatu Legal Framework and Formation Rules and Fees