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Orwell Could Never Have Predicted This

I love technology. I can’t imagine life without modern conveniences like telephones, email, and the internet. Not to mention running ...

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Giving Up U.S. Citizenship: The Real Numbers are Much Higher

Expatriation – deliberately giving up your US citizenship and passport – is admittedly a touchy topic. Congressman Sam Gibbons (D-FL), ...

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Visa and Passport Fraud “Red Flags”

It was the perfect pitch for 1,076 young foreigners who had just graduated from a US university but didn’t want ...

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Panama Papers Analysis: Offshore Truth Unveiled

That’s what the headlines should have proclaimed. But they didn’t. Instead, when announcing the theft of more than 11.5 million ...

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The IRS could stop you from flying. Here’s how…

Imagine arriving at your local airport one morning for a domestic flight to a neighboring city. You approach the security ...

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Making America Great… One Lawsuit at a Time

Donald Trump’s legal antics underscore something that’s very wrong with the US legal system. When he encounters someone who says ...

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Reasons NOT to Keep Your Cash in the Bank

It’s bad enough depositing your money into a bank account and earning essentially zero interest on it, or in some ...

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It all started 2,300 years ago…

300 years before the birth of Christ, a man named Neoptolemus took what was alleged to be his ill-gotten gains ...

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So what else are they (the IRS) lying about?

In the runup to April 15’s tax-filing deadline, the IRS has once again published a list of what it calls ...

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Gold vs. Fiat Currency: Opportunities and Challenges

Economist John Maynard Keynes is often quoted as calling it the “barbarous relic.” Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin said he would ...

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IRS Expatriation Report: 1998-2015

Earlier this month, the Federal Register published its quarterly list of former US citizens and permanent residents ...

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You, an accidental terrorist? Thank Ted Cruz

It’s bad enough that the US government has the authority to revoke your passport if you have a “seriously delinquent ...

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Best Place to Launder Money (Surprisingly)

I’m in the executive lounge at Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Martin drinking double espressos and waiting for a ...

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The dirty little secret about EU passports

Greetings from the island of Nevis! I’m here dealing with yearend formalities associated with Fortress Trust Ltd., a registered agent ...

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Civil Forfeiture Case: Police Seized His House for $40

When I was nine years old, I was one of the smallest students in my fourth grade class. With my ...

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Concept art of an article about Potential Threats to Puerto Rico’s Tax Cuts: colorful houses in Puerto Rico (AI Art)

Potential Threats to Puerto Rico’s Tax Cuts

In the 30 years I’ve been writing about developments in the offshore world, I’ve been called a lot of things: ...

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Swiss Banking Secrecy for Americans: Myth or Reality

From 2006–2008, Falciani worked in HSBC’s information technology department. While there, he secretly downloaded the account details of more than ...

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It’s (Almost) Official: Tax Debt = No Passport

The paragons of public virtue that make up the US Congress really, really want to crack down on tax cheats. ...

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Austria: Anonymous Storage and The World’s Safest Bank

I just finished a week’s visit to Vienna, where I lived from 2003-2005 while earning a LL.M (Master of Laws) ...

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The Impact of Negative Interest Rates on Your Finances

It might sound like a conspiracy theory spun by right-wing crazies. But judging by the increasing desperation of governments to ...

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How to Stay Off the “No Fly” List

Airport security in the USA is a joke, and a bad one at that. It’s easy to create a <a ...

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Watch Out for these 3 Offshore Scams

You could be forgiven for believing offshore frauds are a thing of the past. After all, with “Know Your Customer” ...

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How to Protect Yourself from Border Big Brother

Big Brother is alive and well at US border crossings. The latest example comes from published accounts describing the recent ...

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Your Data Isn’t Safe in the USA

In 2013, former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden stunned the world by revealing top-secret details of the agency’s data ...

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The Big Biz, Big Gov World of Donald Trump

A hidden danger of a government that intervenes in every aspect of its citizens’ lives is that it develops harmful ...

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The Canadians to save us from FATCA? Maybe…

FATCA, officially known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, is probably the worst law that most Americans don't know ...

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Bank Secrecy Act: The Surveillance of Everyday Transactions

Do you distrust the banking system? Prefer to do business in cash? Complain about the encroachment of Big Brother into ...

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There Are No Markets, Only [IMF] Manipulation

I can’t help but be reminded of the truism of this week’s article title, watching Chinese stock prices drop, day ...

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Second Passport Scams Exposed

When I was a teenager, I was a fan of the Rolling Stones. I bought their 1971 album, Sticky Fingers, ...

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Are You Fit to be Boiled?

I’ll never forget the first time I saw a lobster boiled alive. It was at a family gathering when I ...

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