Tag: FATCA
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Canada Overseas Retirement Plan and Hong Kong Pension Law
A specific type of Hong Kong pension law framework, when structured compliantly, can produce a cross-border financial structure that is government regulated, registered and recognized to reduce the cost of tax for cross-border investment into and out of Canada. A Hong Kong ORSO is after tax contribution with the idea that withdrawals after age 55…
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Hong Kong ORS and CRS (Common Reporting Standard)
The Hong Kong ORS is not exempt from CRS/FATCA reporting; which means the ORS is not recognized internationally for deferral of income. ORS402(b) is an exempt from CRS and FATCA reporting exempt beneficiary financial account. WE provide the whitepapers to explain the difference between a Hong Kong ORS and our private label ORS402(b). Overseas Financial…
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402(b) Foreign Financial Account
Governments around the world know more than ever before about the activities of Foreign Financial Account holders that maintain undisclosed accounts and the financial institutions where those accounts are maintained. [box type=”alert” size=”large” style=”rounded” border=”full”]Governments now have unprecedented access and insight into the hidden world relating to the maintenance of offshore accounts.[/box] Much like Foreign…
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Anti-FATCA lawyer rejects Europe threat to US taxpayers
Sanctions unlikely, lobbyist says The leading advocate for repeal of the U.S. Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act has called “laughable” any attempt to sanction Washington – should it rescind FATCA – for noncompliance with copycat European tax laws. Washington-based anti-FATCA tax-lawyer and lobbyist James Jatras said European efforts to pinpoint U.S. taxpayers through the Organization…
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Corporatize your Offshore Capital Structure
[box]AML & KYC are the first issues for consideration, when planning an Offshore Capital Structure.[/box] The best course of action to ring-fence liability, is this ORS/402(b) program. FATCA and the Automatic Exchange of Financial Information reporting rules are enforced now. The PRC has the same rules about foreign financial account reporting as does the USA.…
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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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Investing Offshore requires forward thinking
Donald Trump’s Fiscal Tax Plan will increase the ultimate yield on your corporate projects and investments offshore. Trump’s plan scraps dividend tax and at the same time it scraps the foreign bank interest tax exemption. Which means, for example, bank lending overnight from the Cayman is redundant / irrelevant. ”Tax Havens” such as Cayman, Bermuda,…
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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,…