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Category: Asset Protection

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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…

  • Best International Bank Award

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    ST HELIER, Jersey, March 31, 2010 – Abbey International is currently celebrating twice over having won the coveted Best International Bank award in this year’s Investment International Finance Awards and this week secured a “Best Buy” listing for its popular 18 month fixed rate deposit currently paying 3.57% AER with Moneyfacts, the independent industry monitor (source: Moneyfacts.co.uk). The Investment International awards are amongst the oldest…

  • Fidelity Research Institute Retirement Index

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    Special Focus on Retirees Shows High Incidence of Forced Early Retirement Due to Health Reasons and Higher Monthly Expenses than Anticipated BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Fidelity Research Institute today announced the findings of its 2007 Retirement Index, which showed the typical working American household is on track to replace 58 percent of their income in retirement –…

  • The Truth About Offshore Investing

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    Offshore banking and investing is not littered with money laundering criminals, fraudsters, and tax evaders as many governments will have you believe. In respect to these types of crimes the reality is that there is infinitely more criminal activity onshore within their countries then there is offshore. There is a huge difference between those who…

  • Tax shelters are like ice bergs…

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    Tax shelters are like ice bergs… … because the 10% on top is glistening and gleaming and looks wonderful, and 90% of it that is hidden is filled with unknown dangers. The history of tax shelters in the United States has at best, been dubious, and at worst disastrous. The biggest problem with a tax…

  • Avoiding Forced Heirship

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    Forced heirship rules in many civil law countries are an ongoing source of family problems which have frustrated proper estate planning and divided families into warring camps for generations. While there are a number of very good solutions for this problem, one of the most popular is the use of a foreign trust structure to…