Category: Asset Protection

  • Current and Emerging Investor Threats for 2018

    HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Secretary of Banking and Securities Robin L. Wiessmannhas issued a list of current and emerging threats facing investors in 2018, along with a reminder that in the age of technological innovation, it is more important than ever for consumers to take the time to investigate before they invest their money. The top…

  • Regulations Call Out Beneficial Ownership of Trusts and Life Insurance

    The past global trend has been that life insurance or trusts based plans were set up offshore for the purpose to be an after tax contribution savings plan financed and administered through either an insurance company or trust company arrangement. In today’s automatic exchange of financial information annually reported they are not acknowledged tax and…

  • Know-Your-Customer (KYC) for a Clean Nominee Bank Account

    [box]Know-Your-Customer (KYC) rules that freeze up non-compliant banking, businesses, entities and persons. Freeze up means that transfers are blocked; no trade in capital processed.[/box] Financial institutions fear to be wittingly or unwittingly implicated when they are used to settle, facilitate, or finance international trade transactions (e.g., through processing wire transfers, providing trade finance, and issuing…

  • Rights of Taxation Offshore

    The purpose of a Tax Treaty is to define which of two countries has the rights of taxation. Good Reason to Transfer, without current tax consequence, your IRA, 401k and 401a into a FASDIRA; but first the education as to why you have reason: Upon retirement when there is a Tax Treaty with the USA…

  • Tax Treaty and Overseas Retirement

    The purpose of a Tax Treaty is to define which of two countries has the rights of taxation. Upon retirement when there is a Tax Treaty with the USA then it is possible for the 3rd Country national to receive withdrawal from his IRC 401a or IRA without tax or a reduced tax from the…

  • Bitcoin Value Rebounds After Another Split

    NEW YORK, October 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Bitcoin price continued to recover on Thursday after the price took a recent dive due to the, “hard fork” that happened on Tuesday. According to data from CoinDesk, Bitcoin rose 3.6 percent to $5940.83 during Thursday’s trading session. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, went through a hard fork on Tuesday…

  • EY Tax survey predicts tax reform likely within six months

    Nearly two-thirds of international tax professionals are preparing for transition to territorial system NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Seventy percent of respondents to a 36th Annual Ernst & Young LLP (EY) International Tax Conference poll indicated that they believe tax reform is likely to occur within the next six months and 63% are taking action to manage…

  • Canada Overseas Retirement Plan and Hong Kong Pension Law

    A specific type of Hong Kong pension law framework, when structured compliantly, can produce a cross-border financial structure that is government regulated, registered and recognized to reduce the cost of tax for cross-border investment into and out of Canada. A Hong Kong ORSO is after tax contribution with the idea that withdrawals after age 55…

  • The Netherlands is world’s biggest conduit to offshore tax havens

    [box]The Netherlands is the biggest conduit to offshore tax havens in the world, with almost a quarter of fiscal constructions having a Dutch link, according to researchers at a specialist unit at the University of Amsterdam.[/box] ‘Only five big countries act as conduit-OFCs,’ the researchers from Corpnet said in a new report. ‘Together these five…