Tag: U.S. Tax Law
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Navigating U.S. Tax Day: Top 5 Tips for Offshore Investors
As Tax Day approaches in the United States, offshore investors managing their assets and financial interests across borders need to be particularly vigilant about their tax obligations to avoid penalties and maximize their investment potential. Below are five essential tips to help offshore investors stay compliant and optimize their tax strategies when dealing with U.S.…
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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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Hong Kong TIEA is Good for U.S. Expats
This week it was announced that Hong Kong has agreed to hand over financial details of Americans working in the city, to US tax authorities under Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, US can ask for data if certain conditions are met. The Financial Services and Treasury Bureau said the tax-information exchange agreement allowed the US…
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US Tax Law
QUESTION: In foreign trusts, it is not unusual to give the trustee the authority to capitalize undistributed income (including capital gains). Does that in effect cause the “undistributed income” to become ”trust corpus/principal” and therefore avoid being treated as ”accumulation distribution”—under U.S. regulations ? REPLY: For trust accounting purposes, it is my understanding that the…