Sentences with phrase «which offshore companies»

Mueller's probe is scrutinizing a series of suspicious wire transfers in which offshore companies linked to President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, moved more than $ 3 million all over the globe between 2012 and 2013.

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The CWA said on Saturday that Verizon has not budged from its original proposal which they have said would increase workers» healthcare costs by thousands of dollars, eliminate job security and remove any restrictions on the company's right to contract out or offshore union jobs.

While tech companies dislike paying taxes — just look at Apple, which keeps much of its money offshore to avoid taxes, or Twitter, which once threatened to leave San Francisco unless it received a special tax break — none of them wants to be labeled as an opponent of anything that would provide help for the homeless and those with low incomes.

Many customers, especially universities (which order a lot of sweatshirts for silkscreening), are part of a «clean clothes» campaign: they order only from companies that are perceived to run safe and fair offshore facilities.

The documents, which cover more than 40 years worth of offshore companies created by the Mossack Fonseca firm, also exposed the holdings of a dozen other global leaders.

Some UK shell companies under offshore control may be skirting new rules which were designed to clamp down on corruption and tax evasion by forcing businesses to reveal their true owners, a Reuters analysis of corporate filings shows.

CHAMP's Accolade investment was in the firm's third fund, which also includes investments in offshore drilling company Shelf Drilling and chemicals manufacturer and distributor Axieo.

Johnson & Johnson has about $ 16 billion in offshore cash, of which around $ 12 billion is set to be repatriated as a result of the U.S. tax overhaul, executives said on the company's earnings call on Tuesday.

That cash remains offshore, but Apple, which paid more than $ 6 billion in taxes in the United States last year on its American operations, could still have to pay federal taxes on it if the company were to return the money to its coffers in the United States.

OFFSHORE COMPANIES (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COMPANIES) is a company which does not carry out any substantial business activities in its country of formation and is framed in a law of no tax jurisdiction for the purposes of legally reducing any kind of tax payment and enhancing one's wealth management.

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

In December 2013, the PBOC published financial policy guidelines under which companies established in the FTZ can conduct centralized payments and collections between associated onshore and offshore entities.

With help from law firms that specialize in offshore tax shelters, the company canvassed multiple jurisdictions before settling on the small island of Jersey, which typically does not tax corporate income.

Tucked into an epic leak of 13.4 million financial documents that exposed the offshore tax - evasion practices of politicians, billionaires, celebrities and blue - chip companies were details about a company Bono invested in called Nude Estates, which owned a stake in a shopping mall in eastern Lithuania, a country the Grammy Award - winning artist has reportedly never visited.

The talks also explored ways to improve the «integrity» of global financial flows, especially following the release of the so - called «Panama Papers,» which disclosed details of offshore companies set up for wealthy individuals and companies by the Panama - based law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Schumer was careful today to separate offshore firms and other companies that use a high number of H - 1B visas from U.S. tech companies such as Oracle, Cisco, Apple, and Microsoft, which he named specifically.

«122 billion pounds worth of UK properties are actually owned in offshore tax havens, many of which are controlled by the UK... What we need to be sure of is that those places also create open registries [like the Land Registry is doing in England and Wales] of who owns and sits behind the companies registered there.»

Queensland Investment Corporation's new fund which purchased an 80 per cent stake in the North Australian Pastoral Company will become a major domestic competitor to offshore investors seeking to own Australia's agricultural land.

Queensland Investment Corporation's new fund, which purchased a major stake in the North Australian Pastoral Company, will become a major domestic competitor to offshore investors.

Or, even, imagine if you can being a Labour activist, signing up to help Labour win the 2010 General Election, but then finding yourself afterwards sucked into Tony Blair's complex world of unusual companies, which publish no accounts, yet have permissions to operate in offshore locations?

Several MPs demanded that British territories — former colonies, some of which have become major tax havens — be forced to publish registers of the beneficial, or true, owners of offshore companies.

He explained that Oando gave the contract for the purchase, treatment, shipment and clearing to an offshore company, Hizmark Inc., which delivered the car.

The three Korean companies» fledgling wind businesses could get a significant boost from their government, which will invest $ 8.4 billion in a 2.5 GW offshore wind farm, Asia's largest.

Chinese and South Korean companies will also compete There will be offshore wind opportunities also in Germany, which needs to increase its renewable energy output as it phases out all its nuclear power plants by 2022.

This phenomenon is painfully familiar to oil companies, which spend large sums of money minimizing such vibrations in order to stabilize offshore drilling equipment.

So - called roadless oil extraction, in which oil companies use offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to stop a proposed road project inside the park.

Two U.S. companies won those wind development leases, one of which is working with a Danish offshore wind power developer to possibly develop a 1,000 megawatt wind farm near Martha's Vineyard after 2020, enough to power most of the city of Boston.

This lesson guides students through the game «Continent of Secrets,» which reveals what investigative journalists uncovered about the use of offshore companies by African businesses.

Providing they're not «offshore» accounts (which are very different), it's usually irrelevant who their parent company is.

The seasonal trend for vessel utilization can be disrupted by hurricanes, which have the ability to cause severe offshore damage and generate significant demand for our services from oil and natural gas companies to restore shut - in production.

A fund may invest in investment companies that are not registered with the SEC or in privately placed securities of investment companies (which may or may not be registered), such as hedge funds and offshore funds.

Artists have joined protests against the National Gallery of Victoria's contract with Wilson Security, which manages services at Australia's offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru — the company is the subject of controversial claims regarding assault against asylum seekers held in its detention centres.

Presented at transmediale through company certificates, letters, credit cards and the actual product, the Offshore Spring / Summer 2018 collection of «beachwear», the artists co-opt and thus expose the peculiar vocabulary through which the hidden offshore world operates.

Enbridge entered the offshore wind market in 2015 by buying into E.ON's Rampion project, which recently began generating electricity, and shortly followed by investing in an EDF - backed development company with a 1.4 GW pipeline of French offshore wind projects.

DONG Energy, LEGO Group and William Demant celebrate inauguration of wind farm With great excitement the three partners; DONG Energy, WWF Climate Savers company the LEGO Group and William Demant celebrate the inauguration of the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1 which can provide clean electricity for 320,000 households.

Statoil said in April it would join Polenergia's offshore project which has drawn interest from other international wind companies.

With great excitement the three partners; DONG Energy, WWF Climate Savers company the LEGO Group and William Demant celebrate the inauguration of the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1 which can provide clean electricity for 320,000 households.

The purchase, rumoured to cost # 500 million from Mainstream Renewable Power which developed the project, follows a previously unsuccessful foray by the French company into offshore wind.

«In 2025, we believe that the rest of the world will take off — and my apologies to the US Americans, for once you are in the rest of the world,» Nauen said, explaining that the «rest of the world» according to the company's definition also includes Taiwan, which has a very ambitious offshore wind programme.

Another example is that a lot of the push for offshore wind turbines comes from companies which traditionally built offshore oil rigs.

Exxon has spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding research but has not copied companies such as Shell, which wants to build the largest ever offshore wind farm near the Kent coastline.

The scaled - back bill, which is far weaker than the climate and energy bill passed by the House last year, includes offshore drilling reforms, among them the removal of the $ 75 million liability cap for oil companies when it comes to oil spills.

And more importantly, which companies will be developing these offshore giants?

Several companies in Norway have already begun building high voltage DC lines between Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany while Airtricity, an Irish wind power company, has plans to build what it calls a «Supergrid» — which would connect offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and Irish, North and Baltic seas with consumers in northern Europe.

Unlike other renewable energy sources in Germany, most of which are owned by citizens, cooperatives, and smaller operators, offshore wind, which requires high investment, is largely owned by major energy companies (see → The Big Four).

Environmental disasters, such as the offshore spill in Santa Barbara and the water quality problems in Flint, Michigan, coupled with more aggressive government regulation (prior to 2017), have also led insurance companies to demand higher premiums and deductibles, and to refuse types of coverage that used to be routinely available, such as «cost - cap» environmental coverage, which protects against cost overruns for the remediation of polluted sites.

That's the future of legal services delivered by offshore companies in India, which is expected to generate $ 1 billion in revenue by 2015, writes Joy London.

Asked about the impact of the revelations, Aird & Berlis» managing partner Steven Zakem said, as acknowledged by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which made the documents available on its web site, there are legitimate uses of for offshore companies and trusts.

The financial sector, which includes financial services and insurance companies as well as auxiliary firms such as brokerages, continues to dominate offshore deal activity.

Notable highlights include assisting various developers with the acquisition of 11 development projects in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool, which included the # 1.3 m acquisition of a Manchester - based site to be converted into 116 apartments and five commercial retail units, and handling the acquisition of a retail park as part of a long - term investment project for an offshore property company.