Why would you ever want to be a shareholder-investor in a company in a tax haven like BVI (British Virgin Islands), Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar – other than to dodge tax?
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Alpesh Patel’s Political Sketchbook: The UK India Tech Exchange
- 13 Mar 2024
On the panel as Dealmaker in the Department for Business and Trade, in the Indian High Commission and FICCI event, I am looking for in the Global Entrepreneur Programme scale up companies whose founders would be suitable for the UK Innovator...
Alpesh Patel’s Political Sketchbook: This Is India’s Sparta – Karamsad
- 14 Feb 2024
Independent minded and giving strength to the rest of the nation is what the Spartans were known for.
Over the past fortnight I have visited the three most important Democracies in the world – US (as it prepares for an election), UK of course, and now in India (the largest). What do you find in such close examination? Something startling.
- 09 Mar 2016
Silicon Valley or London for Indian Entrepreneurs?With the heads of Microsoft and Google being Indian, would you as an entrepreneur be better off in Silicon Valley?12 years ago in the glare of the Financial Times, I topped their competition...
I write to you from Menlo Park, Mountain View, Stanford University and Palo Alto – essentially the home of some of immense entrepreneurial wealth creation...
“It is nothing short of a miracle…which has called men from the uttermost ends of the earth… and which has caused human beings to do the most incalculable, improvident and, from a narrow point of view, profitless things.” This was Winston Churchill...
I am a Conservative. I won’t attack individual candidates in the London Mayoralty elections. But I am a Conservative. I believe less Government is good, fewer regulations and the resultant greater freedoms. I want as Mayor the person whose...
From UK battling doping in Football to India and gambling in cricket, to global tennis, FIFA and athletics, sport and controversy go hand in hand – as I recently commented on BBC. How does the behind the scene politics of these things work?...
I write to you from Taiwan, at a time when the Government of India advertises strongly ‘Make in India’ and the British government has suffered huge losses as no one seems to want to make steel in Britain, but they sure do want to make cars…and...
‘The State of our Union is Strong’ proclaimed Barack Obama last week. This past week also saw India celebrate Republic Day. On January 26th 1950, some two and half years after becoming a British Dominion (or ‘independent’), India became a Republic....
- 20 Jan 2016
‘Hindu Born British Terrorist’ – doesn’t make sense does it? Well that’s Britain’s most wanted man. It’s the man in the ISIS videos. This has been plastered all over BBC News – ‘from a Hindu family’.
