Category: Expatriate
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Expat Stage Left as Americans give up citizenship
As the Fourth of July weekend looms and Americans prep their grills and ready their fireworks, some citizens are packing their bags. A recent online poll of more than 2,000 adults by TransferWise, a peer-to-peer money transfer service based in the United Kingdom, revealed that 35 percent of American-born residents and emigrants would consider leaving…
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Relinquishing Permanent Residency or U.S. Citizenship
The expatriation rules apply to U.S. citizens or long term residents that have a Green Card in eight of the last fifteen years preceding the application for expatriation. The expatriation rules are applicable if the taxpayer meets one of two test. A “covered expatriate” is a taxpayer that meets the Net Worth Test of IRC…
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EB What? Considering Other Alternatives to the EB-5 Visa
The EB-5 Visa program The EB-5 Visa program has been widely promoted as a legal basis for foreign business owners to gain conditional residency followed by permanent residency in the United States. The program is a great solution to the proposition “Ï want to live in America.” Unlike other countries, the decision to become a…
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Export a UK Pension
HMRC cannot restrict transfer of UK pension funds HMRC rules specifically states that you do not need to leave the U.K. to transfer your pension funds. Which means the HMRC cannot restrict transfer of pension funds. A transfer payment may be made either to the scheme administrator including persons responsible for administration of the QROPS,…
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Expats and Retirement Overseas
Surveys have shown that more and more multinationals want to exercise control over their worldwide benefits programs at the Home Office level. The principal objectives are to manage costs and ensure compliance and competitiveness of their local benefits plans in each country. For most companies, this is easier said than done. For multinational companies, growing…
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Seeking PRC Strategic Alliance
From Hong Kong with Love to the PRC We seek business partners with connections within the PRC to provide asset protection (tax deferred) solutions explained in our 226 page book and soon to be an MBA course at a major PRC University! Last year there were over 8,600 www.eb5immigration.com from the Peoples Republic of China to…
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Invest Offshore in a Curacao Casino
I met the love of my life in a Curacao Casino Hotel, so the Dutch West Indies have always had a soft-spot for me. We know every bay and beach on the island, or most of them anyway, it’s a magical place for so many reasons. Totally unlike the rest of the Caribbean and on…
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Bye Bye Brazil! – Tax Planning Considerations for Brazilian Investment in the United States: Part 3 – Inbound Investment Real Estate in the U.S Commercial Real Estate
As an undergraduate at West Point, I was a Spanish and Portuguese major. My Brazilian “thing” had already started a decade earlier as a ten year old growing up in the Panama Canal Zone seeing Pele play for his Brazilian team Santos along with hearing Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66. To this day I submit…
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Bye Bye Brazil! – Tax Planning Considerations for Brazilian Investment in the United States: Part II – Additional Income Tax Considerations
I have mentioned in prior articles my affiliation with the South Florida law firm Osborne and Osborne, PA in Boca Raton. Back to the beginning! Boca Raton is where I started right out of the Army in 1987. I moved to Miami for law school. Even though I have been living in New England and…