Tax Havens Today: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Banking and Investing Offshore

ISBN-13: 9780470051238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 336 str.

Hoyt Barber

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Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Tax Havens Today arms you with the knowledge, strategies, and contacts needed to avoid expensive mistakes and make the most of your offshore endeavors. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this timely resource will bring you completely up to speed on a variety of issues that anyone aspiring to go offshore must be familiar with.

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Preface.

PART ONE: THE OFFSHORE CONTROVERSY.

1: Why Are So Many People Going Offshore?

2: Whipping the Taxpayers Into Shape.

3: The Big Squeeze.

4: The Changing World of Tax Havens.

5: The International Dragnet.

6: The International Laundromat. 

7: The Tax Police.

8: Barbarians at the Gate.

PART TWO: BUILDING A SOLID OFFSHORE FINANCIAL FORTRESS.

9: The Benefits of Going Offshore.

10: Best Strategies for Going Offshore: Personal and Financial Lifestyle Changes.

11: Expatriating.

12: The $80,000 Annual Loophole.

13: New Citizenship and Renouncing Your U.S Citizenship.

14: Eight Ways to Sunday. 

15: T–7 Tax Havens: The Green List of the World s Best Offshore Havens.

16: Selecting the Best Tax Haven for Your Plans.

17: Establishing an Offshore Presence Without Leaving Home.

18: Offshore Business Structures.

19: Secrets of Offshore Banking.

20: Offshore Financial & Investment Strategies.

21: Offshore Estate Planning.

22: The Swiss Angle.

23: Placing Your Assets Offshore and Avoiding Fraudulent Transfers.

24: Offshore Business.

25: International Tax Planning.

26: Offshore Privacy.

27: Offshore Caveat.

PART THREE: TODAY′S TAX HAVENS.

28. Tax Information Exchange Agreements.

29. Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty.

30. Profiles of Tax Havens.

Andorra.

Anguilla.

Antigua and Barbuda.

Aruba.

Austria.

The Bahamas.

Bahrain.

Barbados.

Belize.

Bermuda.

British Virgin Islands.

Brunei Darussalam.

Campione.

Liechtenstein.

Luxembourg.

Madeira.

Malta.

Mauritius.

Monaco.

The Netherlands.

The Netherlands Antilles.

Panama.

Saint Kits and Nevis.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Seychelles.

Switzerland.

Turks and Caicos.

Vanuatu.

Western Samoa.

PART FOUR: RESOURCES–THE BIG PICTURE.

Offshore Citizenship and Retirement Opportunities.

Dominica.

Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Profiles of Retirement Havens and Foreign residency: Andorra, Argentina, Austria, The Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Compione (Italy), Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Monaco, The Netherlands, Panama, Portugal, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Switzerland, Turks and Caicos, United Kingdom, Uruguay.

More Countries to Investigate.

 Travel destinations.

Offshore Reading.

Offshore Reference Works.

Newsletters.

Travel Books.

Travel Bookstores and Map Dealers.

Travel Information.

Financial Information and Business Opportunities.

Bank Resources.

Antisurveillance and Privacy Sources.

Books of Interest.

Publishers of Unusual Books and Hard–to–Find Information.

Periodicals.

Real Estate.

Expat Information.

Expat Books.

Retirement Resources.

Health Insurance for Expatriates and Travelers.

Organizations.

Government  Web Sites.

Financial and Investment Services.

Immigration Services.

Tax Problems.

Worldwide Serviced Offices.

Global Mail Drops.

International English Language Newspapers.

Online Resources.

Government Publications.

Offshore Dossier.

Offshore Evaluation Service.

Offshore Financial Services.

Appendix.

About the Author.

Index.

O autorze

HOYT BARBER is an authority on tax havens and offshore banking and has served as a financial consultant to clients worldwide. Barber has authored nine books, including his first novel, From Hell to Havana, released in 2006. Barber is President of Barber Financial Advisors in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a provider of offshore financial services, and is publisher of Offshore Dossier, a newsletter for American investors and expatriates. Visit the author′s Web site at www.hoytbarber.com to learn more.

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TAX HAVENS TODAY

Anyone interested in "going offshore" in terms of their finances and investments needs to understand every aspect of this process in order to succeed. No one knows this better than international tax haven and offshore financial specialist Hoyt Barber. Fifteen years have passed since Barber first published one of the most well–rounded guides to the financial benefits and pitfalls of going offshore. Since that time, much has changed, yet little has been done to help you navigate this attractive, but complex, environment until now.

Filled with in–depth insight and expert advice, Tax Havens Today arms you with the knowledge, strategies, and contacts needed to avoid expensive mistakes and make the most of your offshore endeavors. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this timely resource will bring you completely up to speed on a variety of issues that anyone aspiring to go offshore must be familiar with.

Using Tax Havens Today as your guide, you′ll learn how to:

• Locate a diverse selection of offshore banking and investment options for any size investor as well as specific offshore tax planning and investment strategies
• Reduce taxes, defer taxes, and invest tax–free, while simultaneously protecting your assets and planning your estate all from offshore
• Weigh the advantages and drawbacks of forty important tax havens
• Use twelve proven criteria to make intelligent decisions on the best tax havens for your particular situation
• Further pursue the exploration of tax–advantaged offshore retirement havens and other countries with strong appeal to aspiring investors and expatriates

Tax Havens Today also contains over 500 contacts, including names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e–mail addresses, and Web sites of the most important investment, banking, legal, and financial advisors in the world all divided by tax haven or other jurisdiction and a brief description of their areas of expertise.

While governments may have the right to collect taxes, you also have the right to protect your financial sovereignty. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Tax Havens Today will help you find everything you need to get started on the road to legally reducing taxes, sheltering assets, increasing profits, and living a better life.