Offshore Life Insurance to Protect Your Family
offshore life insurance – protect your family You’re young. Life is good and you are settling into your new role as a parent and, quite possibly, the sole provider for your young family and dependents....
View ArticleAn American in Paris (or Shanghai or Tel Aviv) – Part 3
How to retain your account in a Foreign Financial Institution Panorama de Gal.Vivienne. An American in Paris A. Overview In my last installment, I discussed the benefits of a private placement...
View ArticleOffshore Asset Protection for Expats
Keep on walking There’s a lot of talk in the offshore investment niche of being an expatriate or Expat. But what exactly is an Expat? And what does it have to do with offshore investing? There are many...
View ArticleWhat to Think About Before Retiring Overseas
Golf while retiring overseas Many people convince themselves they can’t retire away from their home country. It’s not the right time, it’s too complicated, we don’t have enough money – and certainly...
View ArticlePanama as an Expat Destination
Panama city at night Panama has a long history of being very professional and courteous with international investors and bankers. The investment and banking culture in the country is very favorable for...
View ArticleDouble trouble, US Expats feel the burden of FATCA
Poststrasse, Chur, Switzerland US anti-tax evasion legislation known as FATCA – the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – has caused upheaval among the American expat community and dual Swiss-US...
View ArticleThe FATCA Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen (movie) Legal challenges that US persons have to deal with, living overseas. The following legal challenges are extremely problematic for USA persons: No foreign bank will open an...
View ArticleA Foreign Financial Account excluded from FATCA
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Vault Door UNITED STATES IRC 402(b) LAW (1986) UNLEASHES TAX OFFSHORE The U.S. Tax system is generally hostile to foreign financial structures if there is a U.S....
View ArticleAsset protection and tax deferred solutions (offshore) for U.S. Persons
Uncle Sam with empty treasury, 1920, by James Montgomery Flagg.Many US citizens know that it is extremely difficult to hold assets outside of the US solely for asset protection and tax deferral. Some...
View ArticleSan Juan – The New Havana?: Making the Move from Miami to Puerto Rico
The Berkeley Shore – Miami by Gerald Nowotny I lived in Miami for about ten years during the time that I went to law school at the University Of Miami School of Law, i.e. the Harvard of the South! I...
View ArticleIRC 402(b) Foreign Regulated, Registered and Recognized Retirement Plan
In response to the single most common question we get: I would like to take funds out of the country, going through the regular channels and obtaining tax clearance, to invest with an offshore bank or...
View ArticleInvest Offshore in Escudo de Veraguas with the Ngobe (Ngabe)-Bugle´Indian Tribe
Isla Escudo de Veraguas The master developer of Escudo de Veraguas (to be referred to as “the project”) will be by HES International, S.A., IPPCorporation and the Ngobe (Ngabe)-Bugle´Indian Tribe....
View ArticleTop 20 Best Foreign Retirement Havens
Most foreign pension plans are likely characterized as trusts for U.S. tax purposes. Neither the statute nor the regulations define the term “employees’ trust.” However, if a foreign pension (i.e.,...
View ArticleConfessions of an Expat Canuck
RMS Titanic, Ocean Liner, (1912) Never before in modern history has there been a time when people everywhere have become so disillusioned by the Global Governments and their leadership. Call it an...
View ArticleMarket Timing and Conspiracy Theory
The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry’s House of the Temple at 1733 16th Street, NW in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Love is all that counts, everything else is rhetoric or mind games....
View ArticleInvest from China into USA with an EB-5 Visa
Pre-Immigration Statutory Asset Protection for EB-5 Visa Tax and regulatory protection you can trust is registered in pension laws which are government regulated, registered and recognized by both the...
View ArticleAbout the Sovereign Man
If you’ve never heard of the Sovereign Man, then allow me to introduce you to the most compelling information, about why to expatriate from the USA immediately, or at the very least begin to...
View ArticleBye Bye Brazil!- Tax Planning Considerations for Brazilian Investment in the...
Cisne Branco of Brazil I have mentioned in prior articles that I was a Spanish and Portuguese major as an undergraduate. During the time that I was attending law school at the University of Miami, the...
View ArticleBye Bye Brazil! – Tax Planning Considerations for Brazilian Investment in the...
Brasão de Armas da Marinha do Brasil I have mentioned in prior articles my affiliation with the South Florida law firm Osborne and Osborne, PA in Boca Raton. Back to the beginning! Boca Raton is where...
View ArticleBye Bye Brazil! – Tax Planning Considerations for Brazilian Investment in the...
As an undergraduate at West Point, I was a Spanish and Portuguese major. My Brazilian “thing” had already started a decade earlier as a ten year old growing up in the Panama Canal Zone seeing Pele...
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