Tag: FATCA

  • Canada Overseas Retirement Plan and Hong Kong Pension Law

    A specific type of Hong Kong pension law framework, when structured compliantly, can produce a cross-border financial structure that is government regulated, registered and recognized to reduce the cost of tax for cross-border investment into and out of Canada. A Hong Kong ORSO is after tax contribution with the idea that withdrawals after age 55…

  • Hong Kong ORS and CRS (Common Reporting Standard)

    The Hong Kong ORS is not exempt from CRS/FATCA reporting; which means the ORS is not recognized internationally for deferral of income. ORS402(b) is an exempt from CRS and FATCA reporting exempt beneficiary financial account. WE provide the whitepapers to explain the difference between a Hong Kong ORS and our private label ORS402(b). Overseas Financial…

  • Anti-FATCA lawyer rejects Europe threat to US taxpayers

    Sanctions unlikely, lobbyist says The leading advocate for repeal of the U.S. Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act has called “laughable” any attempt to sanction Washington – should it rescind FATCA – for noncompliance with copycat European tax laws. Washington-based anti-FATCA tax-lawyer and lobbyist James Jatras said European efforts to pinpoint U.S. taxpayers through the Organization…

  • A Future for Offshore Financial Services?

    Globalization has been a one-way street of impositions by powerful countries; fiscal sovereignty has been violated by the strong; and tax competition remains under threat from the mighty. Indeed, if the current pattern of incursions, restrictions and false labelling of Caribbean jurisdictions as ‘tax havens’, and the Caribbean as a region of ‘high risk’, is…

  • Corporatize your Offshore Capital Structure

    [box]AML & KYC are the first issues for consideration, when planning an Offshore Capital Structure.[/box] The best course of action to ring-fence liability, is this ORS/402(b) program. FATCA and the Automatic Exchange of Financial Information reporting rules are enforced now. The PRC has the same rules about foreign financial account reporting as does the USA.…

  • Your Foreign Company and Tax

    Word is that Morgan Stanley in NYC has reduced their Wealth Manager staff by 15% because a) Annual filing of data to automatic report in compliance to the OECD Common Reporting Standard is a minimum cost annually of $600.00 per account and they have 2.5 Trillion under management, so you can just imagine the reporting costs;…

  • Investing Offshore requires forward thinking

    Donald Trump’s Fiscal Tax Plan will increase the ultimate yield on your corporate projects and investments offshore. Trump’s plan scraps dividend tax and at the same time it scraps the foreign bank interest tax exemption. Which means, for example, bank lending overnight from the Cayman is redundant / irrelevant. ”Tax Havens” such as Cayman, Bermuda,…