Category: Expatriate
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Bye Bye Brazil!- Tax Planning Considerations for Brazilian Investment in the United States: Part I – Income Tax Considerations
I have mentioned in prior articles that I was a Spanish and Portuguese major as an undergraduate. During the time that I was attending law school at the University of Miami, the early 1990’s, the Brazilians had yet to arrive in South Florida in a significant manner. The Brazilian community in Broward County (Pompano Beach)…
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About the Sovereign Man
If you’ve never heard of the Sovereign Man, then allow me to introduce you to the most compelling information, about why to expatriate from the USA immediately, or at the very least begin to geo-diversify your assets and plant some flags (as he calls them) in safe foreign countries. Reprinted below, with his permission is…
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Invest from China into USA with an EB-5 Visa
Pre-Immigration Statutory Asset Protection for EB-5 Visa [box style=”rounded” border=”full”]Tax and regulatory protection you can trust is registered in pension laws which are government regulated, registered and recognized by both the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and The Peoples Republic of China.[/box] This ORSO/IRC 402(b) entity is the only statutory asset protection and tax deferred…
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Market Timing and Conspiracy Theory
Love is all that counts, everything else is rhetoric or mind games. There’s a distinct connection between meaning and value, in that those things that contain the deepest meaning for each of us, are the very things that hold the most value. The best example of this is a wedding ring, for it may have…
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Confessions of an Expat Canuck
Never before in modern history has there been a time when people everywhere have become so disillusioned by the Global Governments and their leadership. Call it an awakening, or blame it on the information-age with all it’s alternative media but the fact remains the same; Governments have gone way out of control and their leaders,…
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Top 20 Best Foreign Retirement Havens
Most foreign pension plans are likely characterized as trusts for U.S. tax purposes. Neither the statute nor the regulations define the term “employees’ trust.” However, if a foreign pension (i.e., the trust): (i) was created by a foreign employer, (ii) is administered by the foreign employer, and (iii) is more than half funded by the…
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Invest Offshore in Escudo de Veraguas with the Ngobe (Ngabe)-Bugle´Indian Tribe
The master developer of Escudo de Veraguas (to be referred to as “the project”) will be by HES International, S.A., IPPCorporation and the Ngobe (Ngabe)-Bugle´Indian Tribe. Escudo de Veraguas is an island off the east coast of Panama in Bocas del Toro Province. HES International owns 100% of the land and holds the master concession…
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IRC 402(b) Foreign Regulated, Registered and Recognized Retirement Plan
In response to the single most common question we’re asked at Invest Offshore: I would like to take funds out of the country, going through the regular channels and obtaining tax clearance, to invest with an offshore bank or banks via platforms for investing in overseas markets. What options do I have as an investor…
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San Juan – The New Havana?: Making the Move from Miami to Puerto Rico
[typography font=”Open Sans” size=”11″ size_format=”px”]by Gerald Nowotny[/typography] I lived in Miami for about ten years during the time that I went to law school at the University Of Miami School of Law, i.e. the Harvard of the South! I also worked in Miami while I went to law school at night and have a good…