The online gambling has exploded in the last couple of years and the number of casino sites is ever increasing. You can play everything from craps to Pai Gow without leaving the comfort of your own home. But online gambling is a jungle, to say the least. And it can be hard to know where to put your hard earned money at stake.
MONACO (Reuters) -- A mass fraud trial opens on Tuesday in the tiny Mediterranean principality of Monaco against a U.S. entrepreneur, his daughter and three others accused of cheating investors out of millions of euros. Full story.
Ernest Hemingway's 40-foot, black-hulled fishing boat, the Pilar, could be getting a little restorative nip and tuck.
Watercraft preservation specialist Dana Hewson of Mystic, Conn., and members of the Boston-based Hemingway Preservation Foundation are heading to Finca Vigia, Hemingway's estate in Cuba, where he will photograph and examine the Pilar.
A Belize IBC can carry on the following activities within Belize:
- make or maintain deposits with local banks in Belize;
- make or maintain professional contact with persons in Belize;
- prepare or maintain books and records within Belize;
- hold meetings of its directors or members within Belize;
- hold lease of property for use as an office in Belize;
- own a vessel(s) registered in Belize in accordance with the Registration of Merchant Ships Act, 1989;
- hold shares in another Belize IBC;
- And under special license carry on banking business.
They were unusual tax shelters that went by incomprehensible names like BLIPS, OPIS, BOSS and FLIP -- and they boomeranged on the companies that sold them.
In February, German bank HVB Group agreed to pay $29.6 million in fines to avoid indictment for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service with abusive tax shelters that gave rich clients phony losses to reduce taxes.
