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Real Estate As Offshore Survival Retreat - Advice Without The Sugar Coating |
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Real Estate As Survival Retreat - I have never been a dooms-day preacher
and I don't intend to start now. With that said, it would be prudent
for the reader to take a calm and objective look at some of the possible
negative situations that may soon take place inside the USA and see how
those events may affect you and your loved ones. I believe that you can
avoid being in the pathway of those oncoming disasters by having an offshore
survival retreat. An offshore survival retreat can be many things, it can
be a summer home, a place where your family lives and survives a social
break-down that may be happening in the USA, it can be an excellent investment,
it can be an excellent place to live, it can be a way of expatriating and
diversifying some of your assets offshore, it can be the beginning of a
better way of life. That is what this article is about in a nutshell.
It can be all of those things at the same time, or it can just be the one
that is the most important to you. I call it investing in offshore
real estate. EscapeArtist.com Staff Article |
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| Tax
Saving Ideas on Foreign Assignment How To Save Taxes Overseas |
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Steven Y.C. Kang - It's a good idea to check out what your tax options
are before you head off on your new overseas posting. One of the things
that you might want to think about is whether or not you can recharacterize
your income - read: using existing tax laws to limit the amount of taxable
income the government can take out of your salary. This means you will
have more inflows of cash and more money to explore the exotic in your
new home. |
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| Offshore
eCommerce Can Make You Rich |
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To Couple Offshore Web Hosting With Offshore eCommerce - Offshore eCommerce
is a new paradigm for doing business. In this article you'll learn what
it is, how to use it to make a much better income than you are now making
and you'll be able to make that income from anywhere in the world, tax
free. Plus: Using your offshore income to establish a second (Safe Haven)
residence overseas. |
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Web Hosting An Introduction: What it is, how to use it, why you want to |
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Web Hosting - What it is, how to use, why you want to. The art of
preventing Taxation Before It Happens, Rather Than Hiding It After It's
Levied |
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Up To $80,000 Abroad Tax Free - Keep The Rest in an IBC |
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The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion coupled with Offshore eCommerce equals
tax free living abroad. "There is another way to make more than $80,000
net and still reduce our taxes to zero. By using offshore eCommerce coupled
with a Panamanian International Business Corporation (IBC,) we can make
any amount of money into the IBC and still keep our tax basis at zero.
If we purchase our house in the name of the IBC, we can rent the house
to ourselves, thereby increasing our tax exclusion by the amount of the
rent, which is paid back into our own IBC bank account. Note that this
modality is best used when you earn more than $80,000 net and cannot move
the additional income into your IBC. The IBC acts as a buffer in
this case by reducing the taxes on the amount of income that exceeds the
$80,000. In cases where the majority of income enters the IBC rather
than being paid to you individually, this modality is hardly necessary.
You can live in the house rent free if your entire personal income is less
than $80,000." |
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| Internet
Privacy |
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to legal authorities in Panama, the law is based on the guidelines of the
UNCITRAL Model Law on E-Commerce and awards electronic documents and signatures
the same validity as written documents. This is especially important as
Panama has strict banking and corporate laws designed to protect the privacy
of investors. The implication is that Panama now has the best protected
internet eCommerce legislation in the world. |
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| Offshore
Corporations Dismantling The Hype |
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Offshore Corporation is a paper interface that acts to separate an individual
from direct ownership of assets. What does that mean and how can we make
use of it? The author explains the IBC and its uses in easy to understand
language. |
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| A
Tale of Two cities: Asia's Booming Economies |
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another key factor in all this, too. Not long ago, Switzerland was the
world's quintessential private banking centre. And although in some eyes
it still is - after all, its banks still hold an estimated 30% of global
offshore assets - its mantle is rapidly being taken by the likes of Singapore
and Hong Kong. |
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| The
Gold Coast - Making Millions In Ghana |
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Doug Casey always seems to write stuff that's fun to read. In this
article he has us believing that we can make zillions in Ghana. As
he puts it, "Making a zillion dollars in a country like Ghana is potentially
much easier than making it in the U.S. That's because you (the reader)
have unique experiences, connections, knowledge, and capital that - while
they're commonplace in more advanced countries - go a long way in an less
developed countries (like Ghana), where you're automatically a big fish
in a little pond." |
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| The
Housing Bubble Revisited |
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If there has been any doubt that a housing bubble really exists, recent
news should have changed that. In early July, word got out that trailers
in a mobile home park in Malibu were selling for over $1 million. Well,
granted, it’s not your ordinary trailer park—scenically located at Point
Dume and close enough to the houses of the stars that you can wave Barbra
Streisand goodnight. From Doug Casey's "What We Now Know" |
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watched exchange rate never boils! |
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mother probably told you that a watched kettle never boils but I bet you
didn’t believe her straight away. I’ll bet you spent at least one occasion
watching a pan of water heating up before you boiled an egg or something
and while you kidded yourself that you had nothing better to do, truth
be known, you just had to test the theory. By Sophie Stride |
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| Advice
For New Real Estate Investors |
| - Steven
Cook is an author and active investor in Baltimore, MD. He has bought and
sold over 150 properties in the last two and a half years, including 27
in the first two months of 2001 alone. Steve pursues many avenues of investing
and specializes in the wholesaling and rehabbing of properties for profit.
Read his advice on how to get started and become a successful real estate
investor... |
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| American
Escapee Uses Computer To Make A Living In Paradise - Living In Costa Rica |
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by Rex Freeman - left the USA probably for many of the same reasons most
do; the erosion of rights, the lawlessness of the courts, the intrusions
of privacy, the omnipresence of big brother and the general mental decay
of society. What once made America great, is now gone, or at best
is quickly disappearing and I’d had enough. It was time to go. |
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| Another
Way to Escape - Obtaining Financial Independence: Real Estate Investing |
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- Prior to my departure from the U.S., many of my friends and acquaintances
couldn’t believe what I was doing: leaving a secure job with a good salary
and great retirement to live in the 3rd world with a “lower standard of
living,” while simultaneously investing in real estate. Obtaining financial
independence isn’t rocket science, nor will it take long, especially if
you’re thinking globally. In this article I will attempt to simplify
some of the “mysteries” surrounding the real estate investing world, more
specifically, property analysis as it relates to cash-flow. By Ziad Doumani |
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| AdventureView:
Bryan Hance - International Techno-Ninja Kicks Corporate Butt |
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Mark McMahon - No tie. No commute. No cubicle. Not this guy. My buddy Bryan
makes the
corporate
world work for him. He started his own Internet-based consulting business
to help companies with their computer and technology needs. Using his techno
know-how, Bryan creates a "virtual office in every client's establishment."
This means he can work from anywhere in the world that has an Internet
connection. A true Portable Professional! (In fact, he was my tech consultant
for The Portable Professional eBook.) In this interview Bryan tells us
how he got started as a mobile entrepreneur, and gives tips on the stuff
you can use to start your own portable business. |
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