Americans are faced with a dilemma that’s unique to their citizenship, known as global taxation. Essentially, it means that no matter where you work or earn money...
How to Avoid Paying Taxes: Tax Evasion vs. Avoidance
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Believe it or not, we get a lot of messages about big tax bills. Our helpdesk is often flooded with people who’ve found out exactly what personal...
How to Create Staffing Companies to Save Tax
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The easiest kind of business to move offshore is the kind of business that can fit in a backpack - the kind of business that lives in the cloud....
Legal Strategies to Reduce Payroll Tax
Dateline: Bogota, Colombia Since the American Civil War, US citizens living abroad have had to deal with citizenship-based taxation. Whereas every other country in the world uses...
5 Offshore Methods to Pay Less Taxes
When most people think of how they can structure their lives so that they don’t have to pay taxes, their first thought is that they have to go and live in Dubai. ...
9 Types of Taxes To Avoid when Moving Offshore
Dateline: Tbilisi, Georgia There are so many different types of tax that you have to consider when you're living and traveling all around the world. In fact, we all deal...
How to Move to a Tax Haven and Pay Zero Tax
One of the most frequent questions we are asked reveals just how many misconceptions still exist about investing, living and doing business overseas. The question typically...
The Nomad Tax Trap: Why Living “Nowhere” is Harder than Ever
Dateline: Tivat, Montenegro When I was eleven or twelve years-old, my parents began talking about picking up our lives in the United States and transplanting everything to a...
Form 8858: US Taxes on Foreign Disregarded Entities
All expat or US taxpayers who own a foreign business or have an interest in a foreign business (corporation, partnership or LLC) must complete and file a number of forms with...
Form 8865: Tax Returns for Foreign Partnerships
As readers of this site know, the United States taxes its citizens (including expats who live and work abroad) and legal permanent residents (LPRs) on their worldwide income. No...
