Category: Asset Protection

  • Anti-FATCA lawyer rejects Europe threat to US taxpayers

    Sanctions unlikely, lobbyist says The leading advocate for repeal of the U.S. Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act has called “laughable” any attempt to sanction Washington – should it rescind FATCA – for noncompliance with copycat European tax laws. Washington-based anti-FATCA tax-lawyer and lobbyist James Jatras said European efforts to pinpoint U.S. taxpayers through the Organization…

  • Transamerica Institute Announces “Improving Women’s Retirement Security”

    Women face unique challenges and circumstances that put them at an even greater risk of not achieving a financially secure retirement, compared to men. A special one-hour edition of ClearPath – Your Roadmap to Health & Wealth will offer insights into the particular risks women face and clear-cut steps they can take to improve their…

  • Personal Capital Publishes Investment Tax Guide

    [box size=”large”]CEO Bill Harris Offers Complimentary Copies Until April 15[/box] Just in time for tax season, today Personal Capital published a comprehensive book on how to minimize taxes on your investments. Congress created numerous tax breaks for families saving for retirement – this book shows you how to use them. “It’s not what you make…

  • Seventeen Startling Facts That Sum Up Women’s Retirement Risks

    [box]New Report from TCRS Highlights Women’s Challenges and the Urgent Need for Action In Recognition of National Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day[/box] Today, nonprofit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies® (TCRS) has released a new research report, Seventeen Facts About Women’s Retirement Outlook, which sheds light on vulnerabilities unique to women in their efforts…

  • Her Majesty’s Overview of the Offshore Investment Market

    Despite the term ‘offshore investment’ being widely used in policy and political discourse to describe the investment of capital outside an investor’s jurisdiction of residence, representatives of banks were keen to point out that it is a very broad term open to different interpretations. Indeed, during many of the qualitative interviews conducted with representatives of…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Investing Offshore requires forward thinking

    Donald Trump’s Fiscal Tax Plan will increase the ultimate yield on your corporate projects and investments offshore. Trump’s plan scraps dividend tax and at the same time it scraps the foreign bank interest tax exemption. Which means, for example, bank lending overnight from the Cayman is redundant / irrelevant. ”Tax Havens” such as Cayman, Bermuda,…