Category: Expatriate
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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…
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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…