Cook Islands: Technical Assistance Report-International Financial Services Industry

International Monetary Fund

No 2019/270, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This technical assistance mission report underlines efforts to estimate the economic and revenue contributions of the international financial services industry in the Cook Islands. This report discusses the data and methodology used and presents the results. One matter that has been raised is that international companies are exempt from all taxes in the Cook Islands. The economic contribution of the international financial services industry can be measured by the value added of resident institutional units engaged, directly or indirectly, in the production of international financial services in the Cook Islands. The production of international financial services generates income which is distributed to the various agents or groups of agents who use that income to acquire goods and services for consumption now or later. The international financial services industry also contributes indirectly to gross domestic product through two channels. The first channel is through the goods and services that the industry purchases from other suppliers, such as electricity, accounting services, telecommunications, etc.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; trustee company; financial services service industry; income tax; taxable income; GDP contribution; Cook Islands trustee companies use; Services sector; Value-added tax; Wages; Income tax systems; Australia and New Zealand; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37
Date: 2019-08-14
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