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Author: Lief Simon
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 […]
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 […]
Choosing A Jurisdiction For Backup Residency Overseas
What Trump’s New Tax Bill Means For Your Offshore Business
Panama City: Colonial Old Town Turned First-World Wonder
We held last week’s Live and Invest in Panama Conference in Casco Viejo, the colonial city built out on a peninsula after the original Panama City was destroyed by Henry Morgan in 1670. The new city on the peninsula was easier to protect. On my first trip to Panama in 1999, I took a quick taxi ride […]
Panama’s Los Islotes Community Adds Beachfront Amenities
Yesterday, Kathleen and I spent the day at the beach. This was a bigger deal than that simple statement might suggest… because it was a day at our beach. More than that, it was our first day at our new Los Islotes Rancho Playa. We’ve spent many days at our Los Islotes beaches, of course, […]
Bargain Beachfront Property On Brazil’s Fortaleza Coast
Brazil’s northeastern coast has had my attention for some time. Today, this sandy stretch is dead center on my radar. I believe that available here right now is the greatest beachfront opportunity of my career. The developer of the property where I purchased a beachfront lot in 2016 has contacted me this week to let […]
Why Portugal Is Europe’s Easiest Place To Finance Property
Where in the world can you obtain bank financing as a foreigner for the purchase of real estate? I get the question all the time. In fact, that’s not quite the question to ask. More precisely, the question is: Where can you obtain bank financing as a non-resident who is not earning income in the […]
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 […]