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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 … Read more
For years, people have invested offshore to protect their investment. This was money that the government could not tax and could not attach to you. Many considered it the safest way to store your money. Recently, however, things are changing. FATCA, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, makes it harder for people to invest in offshore … Read more
What if you realized that you too could have the key to opening the lock that has been holding back your very best financial future? The very key to create the building blocks for your financial destiny; a destiny controlled by you and nothing external. Whether you looking for ways to start bolting together individual … Read more
It’s important to understand that Hong Kong has never had any bank secrecy laws, the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) always had a mandate to collect information from banks for the purposes of administration of taxes under the IRD tax code. Hong Kong, when collecting data to honor the terms of the tax information agreements (TIEAs) … Read more
UNITED STATES IRC 402(b) LAW (1986) UNLEASHES TAX OFFSHORE The U.S. Tax system is generally hostile to foreign financial structures if there is a U.S. taxpayer or U.S. beneficiary involved. The hostility is understandable-foreign structures interfere with government ability to impose or collect tax. Avoiding international tax pitfalls can be best achieved, both foreign and … Read more
Call it an ideological paradox or the inherent irrationality of human nature that although we stress so much on study of history and yet we never learn from it. The same is happening in France where a new Super Rich Tax, which puts a tax burden of 75% for individuals with annual income of more … Read more
The road to ruin is on plain display and the playbook is easily seen at this juncture. Let’s take a look at how things will unfold. Contrary to popular outrage of the solution being imposed in Cyprus, it is the correct one once the insured depositors were protected. In this situation the elites suffered first … Read more
Over the last few weeks we’ve published a series of articles to help investors understand what will be the primary global economic drivers for the next ten years. These three drivers were: Growth of the world population Global Debt Monetary Easing & Inflation Now that we have set the table lets see which investment’s can … Read more
Over the next few weeks, we will be publishing a series of columns that we hope will help investors understand what will be the global economic drivers for the next 10 years. We will discuss their effects on our lives and how to profit from the changes ahead through a series of 10 investment themes. … Read more