Talk:Offshore financial centre

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Offshore financial centre article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1: 365 days

This page is not a forum for general discussion about Offshore financial centre. Any such comments may be removed or refactored. Please limit discussion to improvement of this article. You may wish to ask factual questions about Offshore financial centre at the Reference desk.

This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Business Mid‑importance

	Business portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Business, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of business articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BusinessWikipedia:WikiProject BusinessTemplate:WikiProject BusinessWikiProject Business articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Taxation (inactive)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Taxation, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.TaxationWikipedia:WikiProject TaxationTemplate:WikiProject TaxationTaxation articles

Finance & Investment High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Finance & Investment, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles related to Finance and Investment on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Finance & InvestmentWikipedia:WikiProject Finance & InvestmentTemplate:WikiProject Finance & InvestmentFinance & Investment articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Globalization Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Globalization, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Globalization on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.GlobalizationWikipedia:WikiProject GlobalizationTemplate:WikiProject GlobalizationGlobalization articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Daily pageviews of this article

A graph should have been displayed here but graphs are temporarily disabled. Until they are enabled again, visit the interactive graph at pageviews.wmcloud.org

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion[edit]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion:

James R. Hines Jr. C-SPAN.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 11:10, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Description[edit]

I have updated the description to make it more concise and accurate. There are also a phenomenal amount of in line comments which detract from the purpose of the article.

Generally I would strongly question the overall accuracy of the article. A lot of the financial information presented does not seem to join together properly and it reads as if it was written by someone who does not fully understand the financial aspects of this topic. Many points are repeated throughout and at the very least the article needs to be cut down to a reasonable size.

I have reverted your edit as it makes no sense, and your edit description that you have never heard of the phrase "onshore" means that you should be very careful editing this article. thanks. Britishfinance (talk) 19:27, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Consistent false information[edit]

This article - written by Britishfinance - contains consistently false, exaggerated, and distorted information that is used in a political manner to attack Ireland and its corporate tax policy. Whether Ireland's corporate tax regime is right or wrong is certainly up for debate; however, it is vitally important to keep to the facts, and that is something that this article fails to do. It must also be noted that Britishfinance has made numerous personal attacks against IDA Ireland CEO Mark Shanahan.

I recommend at the very least reading this article with severe reservations. This is an article which simply does not meet Wikipedia's standards of objectivity, accuracy and integrity. Duke Of Dirty Dancing (talk) 20:50, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly the wrong definition of the term "offshore"[edit]

In the introduction paragraph the term "offshore" is explained as that it's off-the-shore because the clients are nonresidents. But in my understanding it's off-the-shore because the assets are off-the-shore of the country of origin of the clients. Say a man from the states stores 10M dollars in HSBC in Hong Kong. The 10M dollars is off the shore of the United States' jurisdiction, which makes the guy's account an offshore account. The term originated because usually authorities from one country are having headaches when investigating the storage of assets of certain people that are overseas, which they have no jurisdiction over. Theanonymity.de (talk) 09:34, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]