Offshore: The Tax Free World - The Indispensible Guide to Offshore Financial World [Paperback]

Scott M. Smathers (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2003

Offshore: The Tax Free World is an easy-to-read and fascinating overview of the offshore and international financial 'world', how individuals and companies use international financial accounts, entities, and strategies for a wide range of purposes including tax savings, wealth preservation, 'safe haven' of their assets, limiting liability for their home-country assets, citizenship and residency, and much more.

For the financial, legal, accounting, or related professional, Offshore: The Tax Free World is an essential reference with specific US tax code references and comments throughout and hard-to-find information in an accessible volume with a massive index.

The reader will especially enjoy the 'in-person' description of some of the most interesting places on the planet to visit and live.

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The reader will especially enjoy the 'in-person' description of some of the most interesting places on the planet to visit and live.

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About the Author

Author Scott Smathers has traveled extensively in the offshore world and lived in Monaco and the Bahamas. A renowned authority on offshore structures and management, he is also well-known as an investment manager and has made numerous television appearances. He advises an international clientele ranging from celebrities and the mega-rich to the millionaire next door.

Product Details

Paperback: 198 pages
Publisher: Media Publishing; 2nd edition (October 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9768170395
ISBN-13: 978-9768170392
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,752,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Inside This Book (learn more)

First Sentence:
Most offshore investors, for one reason or another, do not live offshore full-time. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
foreign personal holding company income, base company sales income, ordinary gross income, business computer software royalties, base company income, such other corporation, such taxable year, controlled foreign corporation, offshore investing, stock ownership requirement, shipping income, time during the taxable year, offshore trust, such gross income, qualified activity, offshore world, foreign trust, foreign personal holding companies, offshore financial centres, film rents, gas royalties, private annuity, offshore jurisdictions, offshore corporation, stock entitled

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Channel Islands, Virgin Islands, Cook Islands, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, New Providence, Cable Beach, European Union, Lyford Cay, Puerto Rico, British Commonwealth, British West Indies, Finance Act, International Business Companies, International Business Corporation, Liechtenstein Anstalt, Los Angeles, Netherlands Antilles, Paradise Island

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