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The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) DROP DEAD DATE
The whole thing to do with FATCA is starting to build a tidal wave of interest now that most people understand that 1 July is the drop dead date. [quote style=”boxed”]Would you like to guess as to what is treated as an exempt entity?[/quote] This is explicitly for pension funds as exempt beneficial owners and…
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How widespread is tax evasion?
New study puts a cost on “round-tripping,” a method investors use to avoid the tax collector. by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office Tax evasion is widely assumed to be an eternal problem for governments — but how widespread is it? For the first time, a new study, co-authored by an MIT professor, has put…
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History of Forex Trading
The foreign exchange market, commonly known as “forex,” is the global market for the trading of currencies. It is the largest and most liquid market in the world, trading at a huge volume of $5.3 trillion a day, which is around $220 billion every hour. While the current, modern Forex market is vast and incredibly…
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Hong Kong TIEA is Good for U.S. Expats
This week it was announced that Hong Kong has agreed to hand over financial details of Americans working in the city, to US tax authorities under Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, US can ask for data if certain conditions are met. The Financial Services and Treasury Bureau said the tax-information exchange agreement allowed the US…
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Investors Offshore Bait and Switch
The two biggest problems to most offshore structures is Reporting & Liquidity. Their reporting is complicated and expensive and their liquidity is none! Some complicated structures require high intensity tax filings, often times these structures were created by the person you pay to do your tax filing. Imagine buying an offshore structure, from the person…
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Offshore Tax Havens and the Great Witch Hunt
Many professionals working in the offshore financial services industry are asking the question; when will the tax inquisition end? Most of them understand that as long as there’s more than one currency in the world, and while over two thirds of the collective surplus cash supply is parked in so called tax havens, there will…
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Luxembourg an On-shore IFC for Offshore Investment
Luxembourg is not a tax haven. It is not a country where you can hide assets in case of criminal investigations or amidst money laundering operations. Luxembourg has implemented all of the international standards in terms of the exchange of information for tax purposes. It has also implemented the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development…
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Cayman Funds and the Seven Deadly Myths of FATCA
It is quite a human trait to live in a state of suspended disbelief – when the news is just too bad to absorb, or when the consequences of an action are too much to contemplate. Response to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), it seems, is one of suspended disbelief by some in…
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