Crisis legislation leads to thriving industry

The International Business Companies Act 1984 (IBC Act) is the foundation stone on which the BVI financial services industry is built. Although enacted in the heat of a crisis, it has served the jurisdiction well.

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In 1983 the UK and US unilaterally abolished the existing double-taxation treaties with the BVI. These treaties had facilitated a trickle of offshore financial business to the BVI. The cancellations resulted in a shortfall in government revenue.

Having failed to have the treaties reinstated, the government moved to keep the BVI’s economy afloat. “Necessity is the mother of all invention and so it proved in this case,” says Lewis Hunte, QC, a Barbadian lawyer and former attorney general of the

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