Tag: Vern Jacobs

  • U.S. Tax Guide for Foreign Trusts

    Since 2001 Vern Jacobs has been providing information for Americans who invest offshore, or want to learn about offshore investing, through his Yahoo Group list called the Jacobs Report, it’s grown to over 1,700 members, I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning and watched dozens and dozens of people resolve questions they had about offshore…

  • Offshore Business Workshop

    If you are an entrepreneur and thinking about doing business offshore, you are faced with a choice between an unincorporated branch operation, a foreign LLC or IBC or corporation that is treated as a foreign corporation for U.S. tax purposes or any of these entities that might be treated as either a disregarded entity or…

  • Legal Ways to Save Taxes Offshore

    One of the most common motivations for those who venture offshore is the belief that they can avoid or defer U.S. income taxes with a foreign bank account, a foreign trust or a bearer share foreign international business company. Some of that belief is based on very old and outdated information. Some of it is…