Pandora Papers: Lessons for Investment Migration Advisors and Clients
Groups like ICIJ will keep leaking private financial data but, with the right structures, it needn’t be a problem, explains David Lesperance.
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15% Min. Global Corporate Tax? Game Theory (and History) Explains Why It Won’t Happen
130 countries agree to aim for a global minimum corporate tax of 15%, says the G7. Don’t hold your breath, writes David Lesperance.
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Solimano: Investment Migration’s Role in Tackling Development Challenges
“As a general rule, it is not advisable to earmark the revenues generated by RCBI programs to reduce public sector debt,” writes Andrés Solimano.
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Is Every Turkish Real Estate Broker Also a Citizenship Agent Now?
“We’ve seem a sharp increase in CIP investors asking for our assistance after their applications were mishandled or incorrectly filed.”
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More Citizenship-Based Tax Would “Set Off a Bonanza” for Investment Migration
The heads of Harvey Law Group and CS Global outline what effects they expect the pandemic to have on the investment migration market in 2021 and beyond.
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Effective Backup Plans Part 1: Back to Basics
History is replete with examples of wealthy families who lost everything for lack of a comprehensive backup plan, writes David Lesperance.
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Tax Migration: The Megatrend of 2021
Governments are spending trillions responding to 2020. HNWIs hope to be somewhere else when the bill comes, writes Anatoliy Lyetayev.
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Citizenship-Based Taxation: 3 Signs Europe Might Follow in The US’ Footsteps
Three major developments have increased the likelihood of EU countries adopting citizenship-based taxation, writes David Lesperance.
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The Tax and Price Advantages of Picking Madeira For Portuguese Residence by Investment
Not only is corporate tax 76% lower on the island; real estate prices are still well below their pre-crisis peak, writes economist Miguel Pinto-Correia.
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Greek Golden Visa Stakeholders Rejoice as New Govt. Eliminates VAT on Property Investment
Greek property just got a whole lot cheaper. The new government has declared it will not collect VAT on real estate investments for the next three years.
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Citizenship and Wealth Advisors: What Each Needs to Know About the Other to Help Their HNWI Clients
Many low tax jurisdictions also offer CIP and residency programs, and the overlap between the two previously distinct industries is now nearly complete.
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Wealth Planning and CBI Are Separate Worlds, But This is About to Change
Changes in international taxation and the new economic substance rules offer unique advantages for some Caribbean and European CIPs, writes Carlyle Rogers.
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Rogers: EU/OECD’s Real Concern About CIPs Is Tax Competition, Not “Good Governance” – Part 1
Carlyle Rogers: CARICOM finally appears to realize that the EU is out to destroy the region’s economic future under the guise of tax good governance and other red herrings. What took them so long?
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Carlyle Rogers: RCBI-Industry Finds Itself in Crosshairs as OECD Continues War on Tax Competition
Contrary to protestations made by some, the OECD does not care about money laundering, due diligence weaknesses, terrorist financing, and fraud concerns regarding RCBI programs, writes Carlyle Rogers.
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Orlov: Structuring Your Residency and Holdings to Have Freedom and Security for Generations
Evgeny OrlovPanama Frequently, my readers or conference attendees ask me how ultra high net worth individuals, families, and international
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Opinion: Why Portugal, Objectively Speaking, Has the Best Golden Visa in the World
Kianoush MahmoudiDirector and Head of Business Development at Cankash Company Europe has no shortage of citizenship and residence by
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EU Arm-Twisting CIP-Countries: SKN Now on Tax-Blacklist, Saint Lucia Off, Antigua and Dominica Grey-Listed
The EU has added Saint Kitts & Nevis to its list of so-called “non-cooperative” tax jurisdictions while dropping Saint Lucia.
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OECD Issues Paper on “Preventing Abuse of Investment Migration Programs” for CRS Circumvention
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published an open consultation paper in which it outlines how due
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Canadian Immigrant Investor Myth #1: They Pay Less Tax Than Refugees
By Stephane Tajick Since the end of Canada’s Federal Immigrant Investor program a few years ago by the Conservative Party,
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EU Drops Grenada From Tax-Haven Blacklist, Keeps Saint Lucia for Now
The EU has removed Grenada – along with seven other countries – from its roster of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions, leaving
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