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Offshore Banking Myths
Offshore banking comes with a stigma, so many entrepreneurs
and business professionals cringe at the mere mention that
their money can be safely kept in an Offshore bank account.
Images of fast, expensive boats, drug kingpins, and white
suits come instantly to mind. This perception, of course,
has not been helped by the proliferation of bad Hollywood
movies, television shows, and negative portrayal in the
press--they could not be further from the truth.
The fact is that offshore financial centers (OFC) or banks,
also known as tax havens, exist mostly for the purpose of
providing asset protection, asset growth, tax reduction, and
excellent service for foreign individuals and corporations,
large and small, around the world. While not as glamorous
nor exotic as they are so often portrayed, offshore banking
and financial centers can present real world solutions to
many of the issues facing people looking for asset
protection from pending lawsuits, extraordinary home tax
burdens, or as a way to mitigate the ramifications of a
local unstable government. To be sure, an offshore bank
account can also provide asset protection from the ordinary
perils of things such as divorce, poor market conditions, or
extraneous litigation that is so often a marked
consideration in the Western world.
Offshore Bank Accounts, Money Laundering, and Other Criminal
Activity It would be a misstatement to state that no illicit
funds find their way into Offshore bank accounts--but as we
will soon see, that isn’t really saying much. In reality,
those jurisdictions that the average lay person would least
suspect to be guilty of this or other illegal banking
activities have turned out to be the major money laundering
and criminal enterprise-funding centers in the world. And
the United States is chief among them, with an estimate half
of all of the money laundered in the world laundered within
its 50 states. This half translates to a
conservatively-achieved estimate of $300 billion US.
Of course, the United States is not the only high-tax, or
“large” jurisdiction that is home to this activity, with
other countries such as the UK and Germany sharing in this
dubious distinction.
So although the haven offshore banking jurisdictions are
perceived to be the ideal locale for the financing of the
criminal underworld, the reality is that the high-tax
jurisdictions house the vast majority of these funds, with
the low-taxation havens representing a much smaller
percentage overall.
These type of facts, of course, are very rarely ever
reported by news and print media, or by the jurisdictions
that are frankly quite embarrassed by these astonishing
figures.
OFFshore History -
What is an Offshore Bank
account - Offshore Myths
- Where should an offshore account be established?
- Offshore Advantages -
Opening
Offshore bank accounts for non residents.
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