Month: March 2015
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Bye Bye Brazil! – Tax Planning Considerations for Brazilian Investment in the United States: Part 3 – Inbound Investment Real Estate in the U.S Commercial Real Estate
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 play for his Brazilian team Santos along with hearing Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66. To this day I submit…
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Bye Bye Brazil! – Tax Planning Considerations for Brazilian Investment in the United States: Part II – Additional Income Tax Considerations
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 I started right out of the Army in 1987. I moved to Miami for law school. Even though I have been living in New England and…
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Bye Bye Brazil!- Tax Planning Considerations for Brazilian Investment in the United States: Part I – Income Tax Considerations
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 early 1990’s, the Brazilians had yet to arrive in South Florida in a significant manner. The Brazilian community in Broward County (Pompano Beach)…
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Global Online Commerce and FATCA
The fact is that the U.S. tax code can provide tax deferral on an overseas trading businesses but not on an overseas firms dealing in capital. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) does not define the difference between trade and capital. Therefore, the big operations overseas, or the very small ones for that matter,…
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Working Out A Safe-Money Strategy
Financial Consultants Say Retirees Can Take Steps To Protect Savings From Vagaries Of The Market As people creep into the retirement “red zone” – those years just before or right after they retire – it becomes more important than ever that they find ways to keep their savings safe. Because at that point, their retirement…
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Tax Planning Knowledge
Crossborder financial issues are complicated and readers are strongly encouraged to seek qualified professional advice at all times. We have a network of preferred legal and tax advisors who have prior experience in the relevant issues and will be happy to make referrals when requested. The list below was posted to illustrate the amount of…
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DMS Offshore Investment Services Onboards White Oak AIF On Irish Platform
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, Feb. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — DMS Offshore Investment Services Ltd. (DMS), the world’s largest fund governance firm, and White Oak Global Advisors, LLC (White Oak) have announced the launch of an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) hosted on DMS Irish platform. White Oak has engaged the DMS AIF platform, which is…
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Why Offshore Banks choose Luxembourg
Yves Maas is Managing Director and CEO of Credit Suisse S.A. in Luxembourg. Mr Maas is the Chairman of the Luxembourg Bankers’ Association (ABBL) and a Board Member of the European Banking Federation. As Chair of ABBL, the professional organisation representing the majority of banks and other financial intermediaries established in Luxembourg, he acts as…