Most Recent Articles For: Offshore

Written by admin on May 17th, 2011
Tax HavenA tax haven is a place where private individuals place their assets in a foreign jurisdiction in order to protect themselves from high income taxes and currency conversion rates.  Tax havens have a ...
Written by admin on May 15th, 2011
Offshore Asset Protection Trusts-Personal Freedom and Privacy It is a falsehood that everything related to being "offshore" such as offshore banking secrecy, offshore investment bond, offshore banking alert, offshore asset protection trusts or anything else ...
Written by admin on May 14th, 2011
Over the last year, the United States government has taken a great interest in undisclosed foreign bank accounts.  Individual taxpayers who file U.S tax returns, and who have any offshore or foreign accounts must ...
Written by admin on May 12th, 2011
Grantor.  The grantor is the creator of the trust and the person who is eligible to make gifts to the trust. You may serve as the grantor of your own trust, or you may ask ...
Written by admin on May 11th, 2011
The U.S. Treasury has hinted that it may again offer an amnesty program for taxpayers hiding undeclared money in offshore accounts. Just before Christmas, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman commented about the success of 2009's ...