Although the Federal government is going to great lengths to take action against taxpayers using Swiss bank accounts to avoid paying taxes, according to the U.K. based Tax Justice Network, Delaware is the biggest tax haven on the planet. Their report claims the state is "the most secretive financial jurisdiction in the world," based off an analysis “60 financial jurisdictions according to level of secrecy and cooperation with foreign tax authorities.”
Delaware even beat out Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the Cayman Islands who came in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place respectively. Check out the following facts about Delaware from the Tax Justice Network’s press release, thanks to Huffington Post.
- According to the Delaware Secretary of State's office, their operating budget was $12 million in 2007 and they made $24 million in the fees for expedited incorporation filings alone.
- There are currently some 695,000 active entities registered in Delaware, including 50 percent of the corporations publically traded on the U.S. stock exchange.
- New business formations in Delaware are currently running at about 130,000 per annum.
- The growth of private individual deposits by non-residents was most robust in the United States outranking other popular financial jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands, United Kingdom, and Luxembourg with total non-resident deposits equalling $2.6 trillion in 2007.
