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 [...]
Planning Your Legacy And Protecting Future Generations The idea of legacy planning isn’t new. Families from the Rothschilds to the Duponts and the Kennedys have done it for a long time, and some European families have created plans that have maintained family wealth for centuries. The idea that those of us with less substantial assets might [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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