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Recently, while on a trip in Canada, I bought a Sony Vaio laptop. It was supposed to be a premium model, lightweight and thin, with a high tech magnesium case, built-in cd-rw/dvd-rom combination and came loaded with XP Pro and a lot of multimedia sof...
DATE: Mar 10, 2004
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Bermuda-based Montpelier Re said yesterday that initial investor White Mountains Insurance Group was reducing its stake in the company through a secondary listing.
The announcement came on the heels of Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty reporting rece...
DATE: Mar 10, 2004
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ranco Caparra is about to fulfil a life-long dream of opening his own restaurant ? as he gets ready to throw open the doors to Bermuda?s latest eatery, Mediterraneo. The restaurant on the corner of Parliament and Church streets officially opens a wee...
DATE: Mar 10, 2004
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Ratings agency A.M. Best yesterday released a report on how it goes about rating new insurance companies ? including the host of post September 11 start-ups to set up in Bermuda in 200002.
It said that in recent years, regulatory and tax issues, as w...
DATE: Mar 10, 2004
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The US government should make the States a better place for companies to do business, rather than make it appealing for them to go offshore for tax or cheaper labour, according to the spokesperson for a US Senator.
Yesterday Senator Max Baucus, a ran...
DATE: Mar 10, 2004
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The US Congress wants to get to the bottom of how much tax dodging is going on after a survey found that 59 of the top 100 publicly traded contractors had set up subsidiaries in so-called "tax havens".
And a new bill is being planned by Senators to h...
DATE: Mar 10, 2004
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Businesses said yesterday they were caught cold by Government after a revenue Act affecting all importers was tabled without consultation.
Chamber of Commerce president Charles Gosling said he only found out on Monday that the Revenue Amendment Act h...
DATE: Mar 10, 2004
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange index dipped yesterday after Bank of Butterfield shares lost some ground.
Bermuda's oldest bank lost 25 cents to close at $44.50. BF&M also lost 25 cents to finish at $15.75.
Argus Insurance, however, gained $...
DATE: Mar 09, 2004
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Congress is expected this month to debate bills that will lower the corporate tax rate in the US ? making it less attractive for companies to move offshore to places like Bermuda to lower their tax bills.
Bermuda has been under fire from the US for i...
DATE: Mar 09, 2004
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Bermuda will still escape a controversial European Union law which requires banks to provide tax details on the savings of any person living within the EU.
For an unknown reason, Bermuda was the only British Dependent Territory not included in the li...
DATE: Mar 09, 2004
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