Invest Offshore

Category: Asset Protection

  • Reasons to Invest Offshore

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in

    What are the benefits available to you from the world of offshore savings, investment, finance and banking? We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions…

  • Switzerland Offshore Investments as an Alternative Investment Strategy

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in

    By investing funds offshore of one’s home country, there is an immediate benefit of protection against the troubles of the country’s market or currency. Offshore investing can take many forms. Alternative investment vehicles often include a component of offshore investments, such as offshore real estate, or offshore farm land and agricultural production, or even offshore…

  • FVUL, Foreign Variable Universal Life Insurance

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in

    Elimination of Capital-Gains, Tax-Free Growth, Tax-Free Borrowing, Elimination of Estate Tax. This structure offers some of the best tax planning benefits available today. Investors with appreciated assets of at least $1 million (public or private stock, real estate, etc.) can use the FVUL structure to obtain significant tax savings. The FVUL can eliminate 3 levels…

  • U.S. Tax Guide for Foreign Trusts

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in

    Since 2001 Vern Jacobs has been providing information for Americans who invest offshore, or want to learn about offshore investing, through his Yahoo Group list called the Jacobs Report, it’s grown to over 1,700 members, I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning and watched dozens and dozens of people resolve questions they had about offshore…

  • TaxMasters: How to Avoid Being Audited by the IRS

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in

    Patrick Cox, CEO of TaxMasters, Gives Tips on Some Common Taxpayer Mistakes That Can Lead to IRS Audits HOUSTON, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — As we enter yet another tax season, many individual taxpayers and small business owners share fears about being audited by the IRS, often fueled by misconceptions concerning the audit process and…

  • Lee Byers New Information About Non-UK Pension Schemes (QNUPS)

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in ,

    Following our introduction to QNUPS, we examine the critical considerations you need to keep in mind when assessing whether a Qualifying Non-UK Pension Scheme is the right offshore and expatiate pension solution Lee Byers. As discussed in our earlier report Lee Byers’s Independent Guide to QNUPS, Qualifying Non-UK Pension Schemes are potentially highly tax efficient…

  • Perth Mint UNallocated metals storage

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in , ,

    QUESTION: Do UNALLOCATED metal assets held under the Perth Mint Certificate Program need to be reported on the IRS TDF90-22.1? I recently purchased your book “Reporting Foreign Financial Accounts” as well as the 2010 Update and searched both of them for an answer on this point, and have also searched your online Q&A looking for…

  • IFC International Newslinks

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in , , ,

    UBS Client Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud A wealthy client of the Swiss bank UBS pleaded guilty on Monday to tax fraud, the ninth American caught up in an investigation of the bank’s offshore private banking services, The New York Times’s Lynnley Browning reports. The bank client, Harry Abrahamsen, of Oradell, N.J., pleaded guilty in…

  • Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program

    —

    by

    Aaron
    in ,

    Anxious US Taxpayers Who Disclosed Foreign Bank Accounts and Await Their Call From the IRS Need to Decide Whether to Accept the “Offshore” Penalty or Withdraw From the Program, Says Marks Paneth & Shron Director and Former IRS Special Agent The Call From the IRS Will Come; Once It Does, US Taxpayers Must Make Tough…