START AN OFFSHORE COMPANYAn offshore company can lower your taxes and protect your assets.You’ve burnt the candle at both ends all year. You’ve sacrificed "your time" to build...
10 Countries with the Safest Offshore Banks
If you’re new to the world of offshore banking, you may understandably be concerned about bank safety. After all, many people, influenced by false media reports, believe that...
Flag Theory and Perpetual Travel
NOMAD FLAG THEORYPlant flags around the globe to diversify your life and “go where you’re treated best.”Picture this: You're living wherever you want. Your assets are safe. Your...
The Best Second Residencies in Central and South America
With the sheer scale, vast number of countries and dizzying variety of experiences on offer in Central and South America, you’ll certainly need to do some digging to unearth the...
How to Get Nicaragua Permanent Residency: The Easy Second American Home
While I believe many of the world's best investment opportunities lie in emerging markets in Asia and even Africa, you can't deny the appeal of Central America as a place to...
The Freest State in the United States: Does it Matter?
I’ve always loved lists. Even as a teenager, I would read the annual Index of Economic Freedom and marvel at the freedom a place like Hong Kong offered as the world’s freest...
Why offshore banking in Latvia is the new hotspot
While Latvia is quite chilly now, the Latvian banking sector is heating up with foreign deposits. Dateline: Chicago, United States I’m spending a few days with business...
What is the best second passport strategy?
Dateline: Seoul, South Korea Yesterday, I shared information about how to get second residency - and possibly a passport - here in South Korea. For such a developed country, the...
Top 10 Countries for Medical Tourism and Overseas Healthcare
Medical procedures are a fact of life. Whether answering a medical emergency or resolving a more elective desire, many of us know someone – a family member, a friend, a...
How to avoid the coming global wealth tax
Dateline: Singapore While Singapore isn’t exactly my cup of tea as a permanent residence, it’s always a pleasure arriving here for business. I flew to Singapore from Indonesia...
The Best Offshore Havens for Bank Secrecy
Last updated November 14, 2020 Bank secrecy has long been a target of international groups opposed to offshore tax havens. The argument goes that if governments don’t know who...
How a second passport helps your privacy rights
Reporting from: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Privacy rights seem to be a lost art these days. In their quest to totally make you their slave, desperate governments are working to...
Waiting to expatriate? You’ll never get permission
Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand I've never much been a fan of literature. To me, if it didn't actually happen, I don't care much to read about it. It's the same type-A mindset...
How Hard Is It to Open a Singapore Bank Account Now?
Reporting from: Bangkok, Thailand Remember when you were a little kid and you'd go to your friends' birthday party to eat cake and play party games? Even at seven years old, I...
Is the Cambodia second passport a scam?
Dateline: Siem Reap, Cambodia In Khmer, Siem Reap literally means "Siam defeated". It's an old tribute to the great expansion of the Khmer Empire, which covered most of...
Offshore banking options shrink as another Isle of Man bank closes
Reporting from: Phnom Penh, Cambodia I have an appointment at the US consulate here in Phnom Penh today. I fully expect to be subjected to ridiculous rules, long wait times for...
How to get your passport cancelled, courtesy of the IRS
Reporting from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Before the United States failed to stop the spread of communism in the Vietnam War, it also failed to stop it ninety miles off its...
The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program: how to get screwed
Reporting from: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam In 1725, a Swedish man sat in the bedroom of his mansion, gun to his head. He was Simon Affleck, a tax collector appointed by the King...
Why I prefer small countries and limited government
Reporting from: Hue, Vietnam You wouldn't guess by looking at it, but this small city in Central Vietnam was the imperial city of the entire country under the last ruling...
Vietnam’s entry tax is a more honest tourist tax
Reporting from: Ha Noi, Vietnam I arrived in Vietnam from Hong Kong on Saturday night, just missing the beer fest that seems to take over the central city's bustling Lan Kwai...
