Tag: IRS
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The Day Your IRA/401(k) Dies
October 20th, 2015. That date might not mean much to you now, but it will. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to meet and announce that it intends to replace the U.S. Dollar as the default reserve currency. What’s that mean for Americans with retirement accounts? It means if your IRA or 401(k) is…
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American’s Living Abroad and FATCA
An American’s Living Abroad, or an Expat as they’re commonly known, now faces radical changes in how they file annual income tax reports because of the new FATCA (foreign account tax compliance) regulations. Amongst the more common questions and concerns relates to owning offshore mutual funds (held but not sold). This brings us to the…
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Who Controls Your Retirement Funds: You Or The Government?
Qualified Money For Retirement Has Strings Attached People make a mistake when they feel as though they’ve lost control of their qualified retirement plans – they never had control in the first place, says retirement advisor Mark Cardoza. “Qualified retirement funds – whether we’re talking about an IRA, 401(k), Contributory or Defined Benefit Pension Plan,…
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Offshore Succession Planning for American’s
Issue: ”Sovereign Trust – new short form trust structures which present a cost effective succession planning tool with which to hold investments” Faults: Sovereign Trust – succession planning tool U.S. Tax System is Hostile to Offshore Trusts The U.S. tax system is generally hostile to foreign trusts if there is a U.S. taxpayer involved. The…
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JP Morgan private banker: “We can’t make money anymore…
[typography font=”Cantarell” size=”11″ size_format=”px”]by Simon Black[/typography] July 1, Singapore – Yesterday over coffee, a friend of mine leaked the news that JP Morgan’s private banking division here in Singapore is going to start charging negative interest rates. I almost fell out of my chair. He’s a successful hedge fund manager and one of their best customers.…
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Recognized Private and Secret Legal Framework
Cross-Border ”rolls” for Qualified Plans with Legal Framework The purpose is to transfer assets of a USA qualified retirement plan to a non-US foreign investment account, recognized by the IRS, without a current tax consequence. IRS recognized Tax deferred gains and accumulations from outside the USA Asset Protection by Government and by Governance Exempt from…
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The Only Asset Protection that Governments Trust
Asset Protection that Governments Trust The 401(k) problem is a U.S. Qualified Plan Trustee, upon his demand, would not transfer his money outside of the USA.because: The IRS has made a ruling in regards to Investing/sending money out of the country from qualified retirement plans. They have ruled against all such foreign transactions. We learned…
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Structuring Limited Partner Ownership Offshore
This Hedge Fund Limited Partners Ownership is the Only Tax Deferred Income on Gains & Accumulations Entity Not Subject to Self-Employment Tax The effect of all these rulings in 2014 demolished common U.S. situs deferred compensation structures for members of a limited partnership (LLC/LLP) which is the reason that this solution is only found in…
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Tax Deferred Foreign Financial Account
In any payroll these days for U.S. people or not there is some form of tax equalization built into it. You find tax equalization is quite common. Basically your payroll is assumed to be tax equalized one way or the other and that is an expensive way to deal with this problem. Instead you can…