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TAX HAVENS TODAY - HOYT BARBER
The Benefits and Pitfalls of
Banking and Investing Offshore
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Copyright © 2007 by Hoyt Barber. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging -in-Publication Data
Barber, Hoyt L.
Tax havens today : the benef its and pitfalls of banking and investing offshore / Hoyt
Barber.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978 -0-470-05123- 8 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0 -470-05123-X (cloth)
1. Tax havens. 2. Tax planning—United States. 3. Tax planning—Canada. 4. Tax
planning—Great Britain. I. Title.
K4464.5.B373 2006
343.05'23—dc22
2006030739
Printed in the United States of America.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
“To the hunted, not the hunter;
to the passage, not the path.”
Special dedication to my friend,
the late Manuel G. Espinosa, Esquire,
a true gentleman and a scholar.
Also, in memory of Harry Browne,
fellow author, economist, freedom fighter.