Category: Asset Protection

  • The Trend in Chinese Offshore Investment

    The trend in Chinese offshore investment in the U.S. has been increasing each year. In 2012 the level of investment was $6.5 billion. Much of this investment is in U.S. real estate where great buying opportunities still exist. The registered foreign retirement plan is an ideal asset protection vehicle for Chinese investors that make investments that…

  • IRC 402b Foreign Retirement Plans

    There are 4 sections of IRS code that need to be considered in regards to non-qualified deferred compensation plans and a U.S. tax lawyer who is without prior research on IRC 402b foreign retirement plans will bill between $125,000.00 and $200,000.00 prior to doing research on foreign country pension laws. The reason that specialist Tax…

  • Seraph Summit to Present the Panama Papers Antidote

    IRS Compliant “On the Grid” Offshore Asset Protection Structures Presented at the Seraph Summit The massive leak of documents from a secretive Panamanian law firm… it’s the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca, contain details of various world leaders’ offshore companies – over 70 current and former world leaders in fact! This includes…

  • Planning on Hiding Behind Banking Secrecy?

    Things have changed that make citizens of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and all “high net worth individuals” (HNWI) a target now. Hiding assets PRC style (off the grid) and pretending someone else called ”Aunty”, a business, trust or nominee account owns them puts you at criminal risk needlessly. ORSO402(b) legal non-disclosure programming has…

  • Personal Pension and Foreign Investment Account

    Trade risk for security offshore – Overseas Personal Pension The simple solution is to centralize your investment into a U.S. IRS fully compliant tax free trading environment. This can be accomplished by using a US – onshore regulated Trustee and using a self Directed Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Foreign Investment Account. You can easily rollover…

  • Corporate Legal Framework to Invest Overseas

    Foreign Retirement Plan Corporate Legal Framework This Foreign retirement plan corporate legal framework is the only solution to the IRS rulings in 2014 that demolish U.S. situs deferred compensation structures of working members of limited partnership (LLC/LLP) and the IRS Chief Counsel advises members may be subject to self-employment tax. [box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Under the new…

  • On the Grid, Secure & Private

    When I registered this domain name (investoffshore.com), back in 1994, I did it because I thought, at that time, that everyone would one day invest offshore. I understood the power of the Internet from the very beginning and just assumed that because of it’s ability to bring any ‘n all information to your finger-tips, that eventually…

  • Somewhere Over the Rainbow

    The Use of Private Placement Group Variable Deferred Annuities in Generation Skipping Trusts Over the last several decades, trust and estate lawyers have placed great emphasis on proper planning regarding the proper allocation of the generating skipping transfer (GST) exemption in order to maximize generational wealth accumulation. Over the same time period, a number of…