Tag: IRS
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Offshore Investment Truth & Myths
Offshore Investment Truth Offshore investments have access to the widest possible variety of investment instruments and may often pursue more aggressive investment strategies than if they were registered in a “traditional” jurisdiction. (These Funds out-perform U.S. Funds in Asia and South America). [box type=”tick” size=”large” style=”rounded” border=”full”]A series of offshore investment funds, designed under the same…
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US Government wants retirement savings in US Bonds
Why the US Government wants retirement savings in US Bonds According to financial research firm ICI, total retirement assets in the USA now exceed $23 trillion. $7.3 trillion of that is held in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). [box type=”alert” style=”rounded”]The U.S. government just passed $19 trillion in debt[/box] Unfunded Social Security entitlements the government estimate…
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Renouncing U.S. Citizenship eBook
DETROIT – JANUARY 19, 2016 – Freeman Tax Law, a tax law firm specialising in overseas financial issues and IRS representation, recently published an eBook for people who are interested in renouncing U.S. citizenship. It includes important information regarding expatriation, including what the obligations are when trying to renounce U.S. citizenship, the penalties for failing…
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Offshore asset protection structures that work
Opinion has nothing to do with what we are about or why our offshore asset protection structure works. What we are about is defined specifically and exactly on the W8 form, we are using the IRS own language rather than some opinion. We are W-8BEN-E box 29e recognized! That is who we are. The IRS…
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Millions of Boomers Are Making This Big Retirement Mistake
After several years of rising returns, 401(k) and IRA investors will be reminded with their next statements that investments in the stock market don’t always go up and in some cases they may have made a retirement mistake. The S&P 500 is down more than 10 percent over the past month, and volatility is on…
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End of the Line – Part II: Year End Tax Planning Strategies
This article is Part II in a series of tax planning strategies for year-end tax planning for the 2015 tax series. The article addresses the Pooled Income Fund (PIF) which as this article demonstrates, has surprising planning utility in the current low interest rate environment. Planned giving officers of tax exempt organizations are very familiar…
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The End of the Line – Part I: Year End Tax Planning Strategies
This article is designed to provide an overview of a technique that might allow taxpayers to accomplish significant income tax savings at the end of the 2015 tax year. This planning can be accomplished regardless of whether you are a taxpayer with high W2 income or a taxpayer with a once in a lifetime realization…
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The Invest Offshore Unique Selling Proposition
About “How to Invest Offshore”? we are asked again, and again what makes the 402(b) RAPS (regulated asset protection structure) unique. Or, in biz-dev parlance; what is the unique selling proposition of Invest Offshore? The following points were written to an American Tax Attorney but the fact of the matter is that because Pension Law…