That would simultaneously increase Britain's tax take and seriously dent the offshore business of nearby tax havens.
Yes, Newpark has some exposure to the offshore business, but the company is more of an onshore drilling play.
The result, says Roger King, a British-based expert on the global higher education business, can be more than 10% extra turnover for a university that runs its offshore business well.
The crisis was precipitated by the near-failure of a locally owned bank, Parex, which enjoyed a lively offshore business taking deposits from Russians, some of which appear to have been lent, unwisely, to locals.
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At the Pacific terminus, Panama City is home to dozens of banks, serving Colombians and Venezuelans with dollar savings as well as Central Americans, and thousands of companies, attracted by its favourable tax treatment of offshore business.
The offshore drilling business has been in the headlines since the April 20th Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill.
London's status as a global financial centre is, in part, an historical accident driven by American regulations in the 1960s that created an offshore lending business (the Euromarket) in Britain.
"A leaner, more responsive and more productive shipbuilding and offshore construction business will be better placed to take advantage of emerging market opportunities and to counter the cyclical nature of ship-ordering patterns, " he said.
The offshore and engineering business builds floating units, fixed platforms, pipelines facilities and offshore installations.
Faced with stagnation in its offshore-banking business, the government of Bahrain has introduced a series of reforms to attract more investment.
The offshore-outsourcing business is unpopular with most Americans, particularly those who have seen their jobs reading X-rays, analyzing data or answering customer queries shipped overseas.
Practically none of the public or private sector professionals I have spoken to over the past decade with respect to this major, emerging national security challenge had any interest in unnecessarily disadvantaging U.S. firms and driving business offshore, often to foreign competitors.
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Buffett Rule Fair Share Tax, as discussed in detail here, and denied any expenses to a U.S. business that relocates offshore.
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In the long term as well, prospects for this economy will be extremely challenging: the country's important offshore banking industry, the business of looking after the tax-escaping cash of Russian businesses and individuals, is in effect being closed down forever.
By inking this deal, PokerStars is not only getting a powerful ally, it is also making a preemptive end-run around efforts from lawmakers or business interests to exclude offshore online poker companies that have operated in the U.S. in recent years from any regulated U.S. marketplace.
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Germany also was insistent that the Cypriot business model - as an offshore banking sector - was not sustainable.
This is exciting stuff, but producing offshore Arctic hydrocarbons will generally be a slow business.
Prominent U.S. billionaires and casino companies stayed out of the business, leaving its riches for offshore companies like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.
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H. was not engaging in a regulated business, he simply held money in offshore accounts.
Hornbeck, which provides transportation to offshore drilling rigs and production platforms, said its business was being unjustly interrupted by the moratorium.
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They do business with a daisy chain of other offshore banks.
Mr Berlusconi is on trial in Milan accused of judicial corruption, along with a British lawyer who helped to establish a secret offshore network of companies for Mr Berlusconi's business empire.
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That kind of stability has made it easier for Brazilians to plan offshore purchases and investments, including international trade for small business.
Even if they suspect that a client such as Parmalat is using offshore vehicles or derivatives in a questionable way, this business is extremely lucrative for the banks themselves.
The money will improve access to the business park and help it provide support for an offshore wind farm.
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In the consumer-electronics industry, hit especially hard by the big firms' exodus offshore, one in three firms is entering a new line of business.
Based in Tel Aviv, six-year-old Ness Technologies is a small but rapidly growing IT outsourcer, specializing in offshore development to support a wide range of technology needs for its business customers.
The company provides specialty products to the oil and gas industry through its four business units: well-site services, tubular services, offshore, and accommodations.
The country has already borrowed 2.5bn euros from Russia, whose business people are important customers of Cyprus's relatively large offshore financial sector which offers low tax rates.
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