Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the main components of the regulatory framework for Islamic banking in Mauritius. This small island state of the Indian Ocean aspires to host Islamic banking products while diversifying the range of financial services offered within its hybrid...

The use of tax havens by multinational corporations (MNCs) has attracted increasing attention and scrutiny in recent years. This paper provides an exposition of the academic literature on this topic. It begins with an overview of the basic facts regarding MNCs' use of havens, which are...

The use of tax havens by multinational corporations (MNCs) has attracted increasing attention and scrutiny in recent years. This paper provides an exposition of the academic literature on this topic. It begins with an overview of the basic facts regarding MNCs' use of havens, which are...

Under the OVDP, these penalties were all eliminated in exchange for its one-size-fits-all approach. For most taxpayers, the flexibility of the new guidance will likely result in an overall increase to the cost of making a voluntary disclosure. This was likely the intent of the IRS as it would be...

Global firms finance themselves through foreign subsidiaries, often shell companies in tax havens, which obscures their nationality in aggregate statistics. We associate the universe of traded securities with their issuer's ultimate parent and restate bilateral investment positions to better...

With the advent of globalisation, the capital has highly become mobile with easy and no barrier flow between the nations. As a result of it now a single corporate taxpayer can deploy capital across multiple taxing jurisdictions. This incongruity slowly developed pique between domestic taxing...

Globalization has encouraged the introduction of economic crime at the international level. Organized crime easily entered in legitimate activities through money laundering operations. In this context "tax havens" play an essential role in the globalization of financial crime. In these places,...

Global firms finance themselves through foreign subsidiaries, often shell companies in tax havens, which obscures their nationality in aggregate statistics. We associate the universe of traded securities with their issuer's ultimate parent and restate bilateral investment positions to better...

This study aims to examine the incentives of multinational enterprises (MNEs) for setting up tax -haven subsidiaries. Based on the firm-specific advantage–country-specific advantage (FSA–CSA) framework, we have conducted our research hypotheses. Using a sample of 165 MNEs from six emerging...

This paper explains the various structures that permit offshore funds with U.S. managers to originate loans without the fund or its investors being subject any meaningful amount of U.S. tax. This paper also suggests a legislative change that would render these structures moot