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How to Comply with FATCA
Any financial institution, regardless of its global location, that does not voluntarily comply with FATCA will find that 30% of any US-sourced payments (e.g. a corporate dividend or a maturing principal payment from a US corporate or government bond) will be withheld. Because U.S. stocks and bonds are so widely owned across the globe, virtually…
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UK Gold Investment on Increase, Caution Urged to Potential Private Investors
The Egyptians wanted to be buried in gold while others believed that King Midas could turn anything he touched into gold. These days, however, gold simply has connotations of wealth due to the precious metal’s rareness, and this is nowhere more apparent than in the UK. As a result, many potential…
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How the 2015 changes will affect online merchants
The 2015 VAT changes produce a number of challenges for merchants selling digital services. The changes herald a fresh start for the EU in terms of how they tax the digital economy but for merchants it is another layer of compliance that they need to meet. Here are some of the issues that merchants must…
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Offshore Bank Account For Mid-Size Clients
[box type=”info” style=”rounded”]BREDER SUASSO Sets New Standard In International Banking – Launches The First Offshore Bank Account For Mid-Size Clients With A Minimum Deposit Requirement, both private and corporate offshore accounts for corporations registered in any of the major offshore jurisdictions, such as Panama, Hong Kong, UK, Belize, BVI, Seychelles, and as fast as 72…
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Held Captive! The Closely Held Insurance Company
Captive Insurance – An Integrated Tax and Risk Management Solution [typography font=”Open Sans” size=”11″ size_format=”px”]by Gerald Nowotny[/typography] Captive or closely held insurance companies have been around a long time, at least fifty or more years. For most of their existence, captive insurance companies lived in relative anonymity and were mostly in the domain of public…
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Hong Kong Fund Management Growth Sets Record
The annual Hong Kong Fund Management Activities Survey (FMAS) released today by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) shows that the combined fund management business in Hong Kong hit another record high of $16,007 billion as of the end of 2013, representing year-on-year growth of 27.2%. The latest survey indicates that Hong Kong continued to be a…
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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…
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Land, Apartments, Office space, Hotels, Commercial and Casinos
To the investor looking for more than a one percent (1%) yearly return on money deposited with a bank or a negative interest rate as now proposed by the ECB, we know a firm offering the following. Medium- and long-term real estate investment opportunities with historical and projected income substantially above the rates offered by…
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Asset protection and tax deferred solutions (offshore) for U.S. Persons
Many US citizens know that it is extremely difficult to hold assets outside of the US solely for asset protection and tax deferral. Some perceived to be authorities say you can invest ” anywhere you want” but that’s just not true. The fact is that there is tax deferred solution that when used the Internal…
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