tax haven

English

Etymology

Compound of tax ‎ haven.

Noun

tax haven (plural tax havens)

1. (law, business, taxation) A jurisdiction that levies low tax rates on certain economic activities, especially to attract wealthy individuals and foreign businesses.
   • 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Such colonies claim to be "more British than the British", except that they pay no UK tax and act as tax havens for funds from Britain. Gibraltar has made a particular specialism of internet gambling.

Translations

country that levies low taxes on foreign businesses

• Afrikaans: belastingparadys (af)
• Arabic: مَلَاذ ضَرِيبِيّ (malāḏ ḍarībiyy)
• Armenian: հարկային ապաստան (harkayin apastan), հարկային ապաստարան (hy) (harkayin apastaran), հարկային դրախտ (harkayin draxt)
• Basque: paradisu fiskal
• Belarusian: афшорная зона f (afšórnaja zóna)
• Bulgarian: данъчно убежище n (danǎčno ubežište)
• Catalan: paradís fiscal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 避稅港 / 避税港 (zh) (bìshuìgǎng)

• Czech: daňový ráj (cs) m
• Danish: skattely n
• Dutch: belastingparadijs (nl) n
• Esperanto: impostparadizo
• Estonian: maksuparadiis (et)
• Finnish: veroparatiisi (fi), verokeidas (fi)
• French: paradis fiscal (fr) m
• Galician: paraíso fiscal m
• Georgian: საგადასახადო სამოთხე (sagadasaxado samotxe)
• German: Steueroase (de) f, Steuerparadies (de) n
• Greek: φορολογικός παράδεισος m (forologikós parádeisos)
• Hebrew: מקלט מס m (miklát mas)
• Hindi: कर का स्वर्ग (kar kā svarg)
• Hungarian: adóparadicsom (hu)
• Icelandic: skattaskjól n
• Indonesian: suaka pajak
• Irish: tearmann cánach m
• Italian: paradiso fiscale (it) m
• Japanese: タックスヘイブン (ja) (takkusu-heibun), 租税回避地 (そぜいかいひち, sozei kaihichi)
• Korean: 조세 피난처 (jose pinancheo)
• Latvian: nodokļu paradīze f
• Lithuanian: mokesčių rojumi f
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skatteparadis n

  Nynorsk: skatteparadis n

• Polish: raj podatkowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: paraíso fiscal m
• Romanian: paradis fiscal n
• Russian: нало́говый рай (nalógovyj raj), фиска́льный оа́зис m (fiskálʹnyj oázis)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: порески рај m, порезно уточиште n

  Roman: poreski raj m, porezno utočište n

• Slovak: daňový raj m
• Slovene: davčna oaza f
• Spanish: paraíso fiscal (es) m
• Swedish: skatteparadis (sv) n
• Turkish: vergi cenneti
• Ukrainian: офшорна зона f (ofšorna zona)
• Vietnamese: thiên đường thuế

See also

• secrecy jurisdiction