British Virgin Islands leads offshore havens on number of companies created there

Mossack Fonseca incorporations by year

Anguilla

Bahamas

Samoa

Seychelles

Panama

Incorporations spiked after 2003 as shell companies were set up to legally avoid a new tax on Swiss bank accounts

 

British Virgin Islands

Niue

1985

1995

2005

2015

12,000

9,000

6,000

3,000

0

Anguilla

Niue

Seychelles

Mossack Fonseca incorporations by year

Bahamas

Samoa

Panama

British Virgin Islands

Incorporations spiked after 2003 as shell companies were set up to legally avoid a new tax on Swiss bank accounts

 

1985

1995

2005

2015

12,000

9,000

6,000

3,000

0

Bahamas

Samoa

Seychelles

Mossack Fonseca incorporations by year

Anguilla

Panama

British Virgin Islands

Niue

Incorporations spiked after 2003 as shell companies were set up to legally avoid a new tax on Swiss bank accounts

 

1985

1990

1995

2000

2005

2010

2015

12,000

9,000

6,000

3,000

0

Bahamas

Samoa

Seychelles

Mossack Fonseca incorporations by year

Anguilla

Panama

British Virgin Islands

Niue

Incorporations spiked after 2003 as shell companies were set up to legally avoid a new tax on Swiss bank accounts

 

1985

1990

1995

2000

2005

2010

2015

12,000

9,000

6,000

3,000

0