Author: Aaron

  • Corporatize your Offshore Capital Structure

    [box]AML & KYC are the first issues for consideration, when planning an Offshore Capital Structure.[/box] The best course of action to ring-fence liability, is this ORS/402(b) program. FATCA and the Automatic Exchange of Financial Information reporting rules are enforced now. The PRC has the same rules about foreign financial account reporting as does the USA.…

  • Trump revolution and pre-war Germany

    What understanding and use of economic law made it possible for Germany to advance from economic bankruptcy and 25% unemployment in 1933 to conquest of most of Europe and North Africa? What application does the answer have to today’s world. To the Trump revolution, the price of gold and the future of stocks and bonds?…

  • Invest Offshore in Panjshir Emeralds

    Among the snow-capped peaks above Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, thousands of miners are burrowing deep into the mountains, hunting for some of the world’s finest emeralds. Ethical mining practices with the collective producers of the famous Panjshir emeralds – (as well as deposits of rubies, sapphires and lapis lazuli) – have allied to form the basis of a…

  • Global investment flowing through tax havens grows by $700bn

    The portion of global investment flowing through tax havens has risen by $700bn in two years, according to an analysis by ActionAid. The NGOs evaluation of data from the International Monetary Fund evidences a 5% increase in investment moving through tax havens between 2013 and 2015, from $11.8tn to $12.5tn. ActionAid said this growth was…

  • PRC Offshore Investor Strategy

    [box]The best return on offshore investment is achieved in a legal structure, with an investors program in accordance to the policies, procedure and process of statutory law, regulatory reporting and intergovernmental agreements. Our strategy uses pension law and retirement plan regulations.[/box] There is no off-the-shelf product that achieves the exempt from reporting foreign financial institution…

  • Your Foreign Company and Tax

    Word is that Morgan Stanley in NYC has reduced their Wealth Manager staff by 15% because a) Annual filing of data to automatic report in compliance to the OECD Common Reporting Standard is a minimum cost annually of $600.00 per account and they have 2.5 Trillion under management, so you can just imagine the reporting costs;…

  • The US Economy is Rolling Over

    [box type=”alert”]Yet another “unmassaged” data point has shown that the US economy is rolling over.[/box] If you’ve been reading me for a while you know that one of my biggest pet peeves is the fact that headline US economic data (GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, etc.)  is massaged to the point of being fiction. For this…

  • Chinese companies unite in sending Chinese New Year greetings from the large digital screens overlooking New York’s Times Square

    NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — It was not much more than a year ago that Chinese companies started to make the more than the occasional appearance at New York’s Times Square, the world’s most valued location for businesses, fashion leaders and promoters of culture who want to make a splash. For Chinese companies,…