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One Cayman Islands building has 18,000 company addresses

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There is a single five-story office building in the Cayman Islands called the Ugland House that is the registered address for over 18,000 corporate entities. It's not a bustling metropolis of commerce; it's just a legal fiction used by multinational corporations and the ultra-wealthy to park an estimated 10% of the world's GDP away from domestic tax authorities.

One Cayman Islands building has 18,000 company addresses
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