Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Travel and Tourism in US Virgin Islands" report to th
Read more...The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $7,842,250 National Emergency Grant to assist more than 1,200 workers affected by layoffs that resulted from the closure of the Hovensa oil refinery on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Hovensa was the largest private employer in the U.S. Virgin Islands and operated one of the largest oil refineries in the Western Hemisphere.
Read more...At a recent Senate hearing on the effect of possible tax reforms on Native Americans and the United States territories - Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands - Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D – Montana) pointed to the anomalies and complexities existing in their current tax treatment.
Read more...US litigation firm Kobre & Kim is launching an office in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in response to increasing work in the jurisdiction from Asian clients.
Read more...The U.S. Virgin Islands was an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States until 1936. After 1936 the Virgin Islands became an organized unincorporated territory until the 1954 Organic Act --organized meaning that we are governed by a federal Organic Act which continues to serve as our constitution. 'After the 1954 Organic Act, Congress defined the Virgin Islands as ...
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