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Author: Lief Simon

29 Mar
Inside an aquaponics greenhouse showing rows of produce being grown

Updates On Thailand’s Growing Aquaponics Investment

Great News From Thailand… And How You Can Profit From It I heard this week from the developer of the aquaponics project in Thailand that we've been reporting on for the past 18 months. He wrote to share the good news that he has made the first crop payments to early Live and Invest Overseas [...]
26 Mar
Timber Investment In Colombia

Timber Investment In Colombia: Steadiest Bet In The Market

A couple of years ago I asked a group I work with in Colombia if they had any ideas for an agriculture project in their country. Colombia is known for its coffee and there are many coffee farms across the country, but I wasn’t interested in coffee. I wanted something unique. My associates in Medellín […]

22 Mar
The Donald Posing with a bill which he has recently signed in the white house

How Trump’s Tax Changes Impact Americans Offshore

Trump threw us Americans with businesses overseas a curveball in December. His tax changes eliminated the deferred-tax status for U.S.-controlled foreign corporations. That opportunity to defer U.S. tax made it possible for Americans with small businesses overseas to build their businesses faster. Now what? All my global tax-expert friends and colleagues have spent the past […]

15 Mar
Choosing A Jurisdiction For Backup Residency Overseas

Choosing A Jurisdiction For Backup Residency Overseas

World’s Best Residency Program One important piece of internationalizing your life can be establishing residency in another country, either because you intend to move to that country or because you want a backup residency in your back pocket in case things go completely sideways and you decide it's time to bug out. You have many [...]
05 Mar
Donald Trump Signing A Bill In Front Of A Window. The View Outside Is Of Green Trees, Trump Is Sitting At A Wooden Table And Not Wearing A Tie

What Trump’s New Tax Bill Means For Your Offshore Business

Thanks, Trump Expats were hoping for better from the tax bill that Trump signed back in November. Rumors were bandied about that he might, for example, eliminate the worldwide taxation based on citizenship that we Americans abroad are saddled with. In fact, had he done that (he did not), it would not have made much [...]
05 Feb
EU, Portugal and Spanish Flag flying with blue sky and sun in the background

Spain And Portugal Offering Passports To Sephardic Descendants

The Spanish began their famous Inquisition in 1478, but it wasn’t until the Alhambra Decree in 1492 that the expulsion of all Jews and conversos (Jews converted to Christianity but believed to be secretly practicing their former faith) was ordered. The numbers expelled vary depending on the source, but most of those pushed out of […]