Seychelles Offshore Services

Low tax companies: Special License Companies

Unlike an IBC (zero-tax company) a Special License Company is liable to 1.5% tax on its worldwide income. CSL is also exempt from any withholding taxes on dividends, interest and royalties, and from stamp duties on any property or share transfers and transactions.

International Trusts

Seychelles International Trusts provide complete confidentiality in the process of establishment, exemption from any taxation and high flexibility of structure.

Seychelles International Business Companies

Currently IBC is the most popular offshore vehicle. It is a tax-free corporation if no operations are carried out within the Seychelles


BVI Company

The British Virgin Islands is considered to be the most popular jurisdiction for International Business Companies (IBCs) registration. In the BVI, more than 650,000 offshore IBCs have been incorporated till now, with current growth rate at 50,000 incorporations per year.

Overwhelming popularity of BVI offshore companies may be explained by various factors, the main of which are:

  • there is no currency control in British Virgin Islands as US dollar is used as the BVI currency;
  • political stability is determined by the fact that the BVI is a British Overseas Territory; the BVI does not have the high profile, and it is perfect for customers going to incoporate offshore company in confidential environment;
  • legislation regulation of offshore IBC formation in the BVI is both very flexible and modern, serving a model for many other Caribbean jurisdictions. Only one shareholder and one director required, no corporate officers are required, no requirement for an annual general meeting and the BVI offshore company needs only to keep such accounts and records as the Director thinks appropriate.
  • there is no obligation to inform the local government on the identity of the IBC's shareholders or directors.

Offshore company

  • Gibraltar Offshore is a specialized offshore incorporation firm located in Gibraltar and licensed by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission to provide offshore company formation and management services.
  • A regular Gibraltar company can acquire tax-exempt status.
  • The Gibraltar non-resident company is the simplest and cheapest type of all offshore corporate entities available in Gibraltar.