An offshore company is a legal entity that carries out activities outside the borders of incorporation
Offshore Company Formation is a term commonly used for the process of structuring an international tax planning and or asset protection.
It should be pointed out that, the use of offshore strategies includes both tax havens and onshore financial systems who are competing against others, using all systems and new regulations, in order to gain share of international companies and individuals ready to invest and relocate thanks to the new tax or company laws approved.
Think one moment about Luxembourg, Uk, Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland:
Those are Onshore financial center where policymakers have enacted all tricks in terms of tax and corporate law, in order to attract foreing capital flows:
Tech company tax benefits
R&D strong dedictions
Start up tax exemptions
Holding company favourable taxation
Voting share advantages
Dividends, Interest and royalities tax advantages
Business income tax reductions
Why do you think, for example, every tech giant is in Rep. of Ireland?
Incorporate an offshore company or move your running business overseas is a clever next step in the process toward saving tax and gainig privacy in a legit way.
There is actually a big misconception, created by uninformed media who publish uninformative articles where: offshore business is criminal and it’s all about evading taxes and hiding money from the government, this is absolutely untrue.
There are many 1000% legal strategies for structuring your international and offshore business and achieve visible benefits, in terms of tax reduction, asset protection, cost and compliance reduction.
If this was not true then why Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, for example, and hundred of other companies have cut their taxes by billions of dollars in a fully comply and legal ways.
You also can benefit for living in a globalised economy!.
Offshore company advantages and disvantages:
Planning of international corporate or fiduciary trust structures has many reason and advantages.
Generally individuals and corporations who use offshore companies and strategic international planning mainly wish to achieve:
– Reduction of overall taxation
– Protection of assets form potential creditors
– Increase privacy
– Gain Banking privacy
– Diversifying investments for inverted correlated countries
– Hedging against inflation risks, in a world on low to zero interest rates
– Reduce administrative costs
Offshore companies are an extremely good business instrument for
– International Tax planning
– Holding companies
– Financial services
– Services and consultancy
– Trading and Brokerage
– Global Investment
– Yatch and Jet registration
– E-commerce
If properly planned and executed allow to get maximal benefits such as :
- ZERO Taxation on income
- NO Financial statements
- NO Audit
- Few Compliance required
If you do a research for “offshore company” and you’ll find thousands of websites promising a quick company formation in Seychelles or the British Virgin Islands, or whever you want, their goal is to sell a product / service and not to offer some real advice on international tax planning and offshore company set up and maintenance. They live comfortably abroad and don’t care care of the problems that their solutions may cause to you.
They’re just reseller or at the best registered agents, and so they’re not licensed professional experts in international company law and taxation.
Be aware that laws change quicky, OCSE and governments are increasingly aggressive at proposing new laws and exchange of informations.
It should be pointed out that:
it’s fundamental that you select carefully your offshore service provider. The first and most important thing is that you ask for advice from a qualified cpa or tax attorney specialised in International taxation.
Being an international taxation and corporate law professional means firstly being able to provide the best solution in the exclusive interest of the customer: Even if it means not to sell anything!
The trick is being able to provide customers with personalized and innovative ideas to save on tax and help them to reach their goals of prosperity, stability and privacy.
How to choice where incorporate and set up an offshore-international company?
It must be assessed through an extensive examination of the following key factors
Only after careful consideration of all these factors it is possible to find the best possible solution : like a tailored suit!
A little example :
There are many competitors who keep to provide services to their customers for setting up companies “bad” offshore countries, simply cause they’re connected with them. This is a rapidly changing world and what worked one month ago may be deleterious now due to variuos new laws and treaty.
We offer expert advice and we can set up offshore and international companies, including companies in Europe and in the United States
IBC (international business company)
companies with bearer shares
in various jurisdictions such as:
SEYCHELLES OFFSHORE COMPANY
HONG KONG OFFSHORE COMPANY
IRELAND OFFSHORE COMPANY
UK COMPANY
RAS AL KHAIMAH OFFSHORE COMPANY
SAINT KITS&NAVIS OFFSHORE COMPANY
ISLE OF MAN OFFSHORE COMPANY
LABUAN OFFSHORE COMPANY
MADEIRA OFFSHORE COMPANY
ST. VINCENT & GRENADINE OFFSHORE COMPANY
SAMOA OFFSHORE COMPANY
BAHAMAS OFFSHORE COMPANY
DOMINICA OFFSHORE COMPANY
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLAND OFFSHORE COMPANY
LUXEMBOURG COMPANY
GERMANY COMPANY
PANAMA OFFSHORE COMPANY
MALTA COMPANY
MARSHALL ISLAND OFFSHORE COMPANY
SWITZERLAND COMPANY
NETHERLANDS COMPANY
THE JURISDICTION SELECTION PROCESS
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ANALYSIS OF THE BUSINESS MODEL
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STUDY OF THE INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL COMPANY AND TAX LAWS
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INCORPORATION IN THE MOST SUITABLE JURISDICTION
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KEEP YOUR COMPANY IN COMPLIANCE AND HEALTHY
WHY CHOICE US?
ORDER YOUR COMPANY IN THE DESIRED JURISDICTION OR ASK FOR A CONSULTING
FAQ
The advantages of offshore corporate structures are summarized as follows:
- Zero taxes
- Zero or minimal accounting obligations.
- No financial statements and auditing.
- Total anonymity and Privacy
- Internationalization of the business
This depends on the type of activities carried out by the company.
In any case, you should be aware that the rules are constantly changing and what was fine until yesterday could be deleterious today.It is important to request a consultation where we will settle all the key factors for your best choice:
- Nature of business or assets in the enjoyment
- Goals of the customer
- Tax residence of the beneficiaries.
- Eu savings tax agreement: the aim of this Directive is to tackle cross-border tax evasion by creating an information exchange system for tax authorities.
- Tax Information Exchange Agreements ( TIEAs ) / Double Taxation Conventions ( DCT s), even if different, those are tax treaties, based on OECD models , providing for the exchange of tax information beetween signatory contries and conventions against double taxation
- Mutual legal agreement treatment ( MLAT ) is a treaty internazioneale that allows the exchange of legal information between states.
- New OECD Automatic exchange of information.
- Anonymity of the registers of beneficiaries / shareholders / directors
- Political stability / economical and financial
Owning an offshore company is absolutely legal and can allow you to get huge benefits, however it must be correctly set up, executed, and maintained in compliance with the local corporate law. It’s important to note that not all activities can benefit from the advantages offered by offshore structures.This is why we advise you to ask for a consultation.
No, thanks to our international network we are able to set up your offshore company in 1-3 working days, on average.
Compliance varies depending on the jurisdiction chosen . In any case it is minimal and we can deal with all the company requirements.
Because the point is don’t have problems with your local fiscal authority! It is important to rely on professionals who know the various tax systems, Rely on companies who do not know the mechanisms of the various tax systems means risking huge fines or at worse may configure criminal offence.
Only if properly configured offshore companies can offer all their benefits.
Nominee directors are external directors that only let their name to appear on official company documents.
Using a Nominee Director allow you to not record your personal informations (name, address, passport number, etc.) that are only known from the official agent who will incorporate your company.
Using Nominee Director service strengthens your privacy and prevent disclosure of your personal informations.
You sign Power of Attorney and you will mantain the control and all the executive power of the company.
A Nominee Shareholder is used for security reasons to protect the personal information of the actual shareholder. Contracting a Nominee Shareholder requires you to protects your rights to your shares with Nominee Shareholder issuing a Declaration of Trust free of loopholes to you that certifies your full ownership of your shares while the nominee represents you.
Nominee shareholders provided act with the highest level of integrity and confidentiality.
The costs vary depending on the jurisdiction and on additional services required. In any case, we can keep them low and accessible to all
Ask for a personalized advise and quote.
- E- commerce ( Internet commerce )
- Advisory services
- Business man
- Intermediaries and Trader/forex
- International companies
- International Trade
- Import – Export
- Shipping and Transportation
- IT and communications
- Holding
- Intellectual property rights
- Custody of movable and immovable property
And many other business operations
Yes, of course, this is one of the most frequent uses.