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A primer on trusts
Thursday, August 27, 2009 (599 reads)


Be sure you get competent legal and accounting advice before you set up the typical arrangements to buy that property you fell in love with in some tropical paradise.  Everyone’s facts and circumstances are slightly different, and you need someone who can look at the specifics and provide professional advice.

 

Many exPats have formed Panamanian Private Interest Foundations (PIF) to hold title to their Panama investment entities.   Most investors who purchase property in Panamá follow the common practice to hold title to the real estate in an SA.  There is nothing unsavory or illegal about doing  that. There are however a couple of “gotch-ya’s” if you are not careful.

 

So what are the risks?



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IRS Demanding Reports on Foreign Trusts
Friday, August 29, 2008 (876 reads)


 
Forget about the semantics argument raised last month by the “expatriate” controversy, the IRS is apparently moving aggressively to get at the details behind the financial dealings of US citizen-taxpayers who either transfer money or property into a foreign trust or receive benefits from a foreign trust.
 
Let’s look at the easy one first. The use of the word expat to describe those citizens who live in a country other than where they were born is different than the verb “expatriate” which means to denounce and abandon citizenship.


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TPA – What impact on exPats doing business now in Panamá?
Thursday, September 20, 2007 (1329 reads)


We have reviewed the principal sections of the US International Trade Commission analysis of the impacts of the proposed Trade Promotion Agreement. We looked at the sections that deal with Financial Services, Investment, Professional Services and to a lesser extent, Intellectual Property Rights. Our focus was to get a feel for the potential impact to our client base and target market – exPats in the hospitality and real estate related businesses.


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