Tag: Common Reporting Standard
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How European Banks Leverage Tax Havens: A Persistent Practice Despite Transparency Measures
In the world of asset protection and offshore finance, there is one trend that refuses to fade: European banks channeling substantial profits through tax havens. Despite ongoing efforts for transparency and stricter disclosure regulations, the largest European banks continue to book a staggering EUR 20 billion—equivalent to 14% of their total annual profits—in offshore jurisdictions.…
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What Is A Clean Nominee Bank Account?
This is from the User’s Guide to a Clean Nominee Bank Account for cash flow that is a specifically recognized category by tax authorities as not being your income For the purpose to ensure that taxpayers pay the right amount of tax to the right jurisdiction, the Automatic Exchange of Financial Information general rule is…
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Your Foreign Company and Tax
Word is that Morgan Stanley in NYC has reduced their Wealth Manager staff by 15% because a) Annual filing of data to automatic report in compliance to the OECD Common Reporting Standard is a minimum cost annually of $600.00 per account and they have 2.5 Trillion under management, so you can just imagine the reporting costs;…
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Criminal sanctions may apply to an offshore escrow account
Beware of FATCA! It has recently come to our attention that some people have mistakenly been recommended to use an Escrow Account for privacy of overseas financial transactions. Criminal sanctions would apply to any U.S. Person use of an Escrow Account for the purpose of secrecy. Any U.S. Person participation, interest, legal right, beneficial ownership,…
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Offshore Capital Structure White Paper
The Only Type of Foreign Financial Account that U.S. Persons can use for Deferral of Income and Carried Interest on Capital Overseas This deferred income international retirement plan is formally recognized under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), Common Reporting Standard (CRS), Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI) and specifically mentioned in Double Tax Agreements…
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How to Structure Capital Offshore
Structure Capital Offshore – The Only Tax Rules Compliant and Double Tax Agreements Non-Reporting and Excluded Account The pension regime is very important internationally and one thing the OECD organization has done amazingly well is Double Tax Agreements. They have come out with an amendment to the OECD model double tax agreement that introduces a…