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09 Mar
Facade of traditional white house in Lindos town at Rhodes island

Scams, Flim-Flams, And Scoundrels

There are a lot of scammers out there. And not all of them are trying to sell you a bridge. Some fraudsters bilk unsuspecting investors into handing money over for bogus developments. But far more common are the legal scams where a seller dupes unseasoned investors by hyping information that doesn’t have any bearing on […]

Key Offshore Topics

Offshore 101: Getting Educated About The Offshore World Going Offshore. Going offshore has in recent years become a more mainstream idea. Back in the 90s going offshore was thought to be only for criminals, drug lords, or tax dodgers. These days the offshore world is far from a foreign idea. What is FATCA? The Foreign Asset Tax Compliance [...]
12 Dec
Foreign Earned Income Exclusion

Foreign Earned Income Exclusion

How To Take Advantage Of The FEIE You know my advice in tax season is to "beat the IRS" at its own game by complying with every technicality of our complex tax code... including (especially) those "loopholes" and technicalities that work to your advantage... One of the most powerful rules in the U.S. tax code [...]
12 Dec
Paperwork for filing taxes.

FATCA

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Despite the prosperity it has enjoyed under a free market, the United States in 2009 enacted legislation that many people view as the start of capital controls in America. That legislation is found hidden in a jobs’ bill, H.R. 2847 (also known as the HIRE Act), which became [...]
15 Feb

The Biggest Year Of Voting In Global History

In 1789, Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to French physicist Jean-Baptiste Leroy. It contained a line that outlived both men and will likely still be around when you and I are long gone… “The only two certainties in life are death and taxes.” Now, far be it from me to factcheck The First [...]