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The first of the less worrying sort involves moving a physical business—such as a manufacturing plant—to a tax haven and then attributing as much profit to it as possible.
第一种并如让税务部门头疼的方法是将属于体力行业的业务——如制造厂——迁至一个避税港并在那里赚取尽可能多的利润。
Investigators visited the 87-year-old at her Paris home to ask about Swiss bank accounts and a Seychelles island allegedly used as a tax haven.
调查员们造访了这位87岁老妇人在巴黎的家，向她询问瑞士银行账户以及据称被用来避税的塞舌尔群岛的事。
For those who associate offshore centres with balmy tropical islands, the recent rain-drenched summer may make London seem an odd contender for the role of tax haven.
对那些在亚热带岛屿上的离岸中心注册公司的人来说，最近一个雨水不断的夏季或许让伦敦成了一个奇怪的避税天堂角色的竞争者。

These days, at least to corporations, all Delaware does is flaunt itself as a tax haven.
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My plan will make Greece the tax haven of Europe, and perhaps even the world.
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She will apparently accept, as an alternative, Singapore, a free-market tax haven of which she approves.
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a place where people pay less tax than they would pay if they lived in their own country

A tax haven is a country or place which has a low rate of tax so that people choose to live there or register companies there in order to avoid paying higher tax in their own countries.