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The 2006 rules marked an attempt to assert Beijing's authority to approve offshore transactions as if they were occurring onshore, introducing a new requirement to obtain approval for the round-trip investment from the Ministry of Commerce.
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It is impossible to tell who benefited from the warrants, because all of these transactions took place offshore.
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Mr Bondi will have to prove in court that, as he alleges, the bank has hidden documents and blocked his access to important information about transactions in some offshore-banking centres.
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Second, many offshore banks ask about the nature of transactions expected to take place through the account.
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As expected, Brazil imposed a 6% financial transactions (IOF) tax on offshore loans as part of a series of planned measure to curb inflation by limiting credit, and keep the local currency in check.
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For remote transactions, there are any number of offshore intermediaries in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, and elsewhere that have been helping privacy-conscious Americans stay beyond the long arm of the law for decades.
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On March 29, Mantega raised the financial transactions tax, or IOF, on local institutions that were obtaining dollar loans abroad through their offshore subsidiaries.
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