June 2010 Dear Ms. Huffington: Your recent post citing the Cayman Islands in a list of “tax havens” is unfair and inaccurate. The Cayman Islands — far from being a “tax haven” — are on the elite OECD global “white
Read MoreJanuary 2010 California lawmakers recently targeted California corporations that have offshore trading subsidiaries in an effort to raise tax income for the state. The Assembly passed a bill by Assemblyman Marty Block, who described it as “the Cayman Islands Tax
Read MoreLetter to the Editor The Sunday Telegraph 4 January 2010 Dear Sir, The British press appear to take their intelligence on the Cayman Islands from potboiler novels and Hollywood movies. Your article, Offshore amnesty targets dodge tax deadline – Sunday
Read More10th November 2009 Gentlemen, On behalf of the Financial Services industry of the Cayman Islands I would like to thank you and your colleagues for making the time available at our meeting this afternoon and I would like, briefly,
Read MoreSydney Morning Herald 2 November, 2009 Dear Sir, Your article (Future Fund enjoys tax break in Cayman Islands – October 30th) repeats an unfortunate and erroneous stereotype not assisted by the comments of your Institute of Chartered Accountants. The Cayman
Read MoreWashington DC, October 9, 2009 Distinguished panelists, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen Good afternoon As you now know, my name is Anthony Travers and I was until recently the senior partner of the largest law firm in the Cayman Islands
Read MorePress and Business Briefing 21st September 2009 http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/money/article-1214675/Push-global-corporation-tax.html The above story ran in the UK based Mail on Sunday yesterday. The chairman of the Cayman Islands Financial Services Association, Mr Anthony Travers OBE said: “As a number of us have
Read MoreLetter to the Editor, The Guardian, 16 September 2009 The Cayman Islands do not want to borrow money from the UK. Indeed we need no financial assistance whatsoever from the UK (“Britain may be forced to bail out offshore tax
Read MorePublished CITY-AM, Wednesday, 9th September 2009 By: Jon Robins Low-tax jurisdictions are sick of being political scapegoats, discovers Jon Robins “I fear you will have no choice but to consider new taxes, perhaps payroll and property taxes such as in
Read MorePublished: The Hedge Funds Journal August 2009 “But little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do you know?” said Alice. “I don’t believe it,” said the Pigeon. “But if they do, why they are a kind of serpent.
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Anthony Travers, OBE, is the Chairman of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange, former Chairman of Cayman Finance and former President of the Cayman Islands Law Society.
Having qualified at Clifford –Turner in 1975, he spent his thirty year legal career years with leading offshore law firm Maples and Calder where he served as Senior Partner and a Managing Partner for over twenty years both in Cayman and in various foreign offices that he established for the firm.