Free Secure E-Mail Address
By admin | May 5, 2009
Many of my clients already have a secure e-mail address on an offshore server. Although secure e-mail is only one aspect of communications privacy, it’s an important aspect when it comes to e-mailing each other back and forth about delicate and confidential matters of the type we handle on a daily basis.
I’ve therefore added a new permanent page to this site explaining how you, as a Q Wealth reader, can get a free, easy-to-use secure e-mail address, that you can use to communicate with me and your other offshore friends – including a number of offshore providers and banks using PGP and other forms of encrypted e-mail.
Click here to learn how to get your Free Recommended Secure E-Mail Address
Let me stress that this is not your average wannabee encrypted e-mail service that for all we know might be a honeypot set up by the authorities. This is a highly professional solution that actually usually costs a lot of money. It is run by technicians who are personal friends of mine. We have invested thousands of dollars setting up this solution so our clients’ offshore communications may remain private.
Please feel free to make use of this free secure offshore e-mail service. Also, if you would like my PGP key, just drop me an e-mail. PGP is highly recommended to as the universal standard encryption program. If you don’t yet use PGP, you will find free, simple, step-by-step instructions for using PGP provided with your free secure e-mail address.
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Secrets about Panama Banking and IBCs
By admin | May 1, 2009
Are you thinking about Panama as an offshore tax haven? Or maybe for an e-commerce business? It certainly has a lot to offer. Banking, Corporations, Private Interest Foundations, and more. Although Panama has been targeted by the OECD and the G20, I don’t frankly expect much to happen. Panamanians, like most Latin Americans, are good at promising things and then putting them off until “manana” (tomorrow)!
This could be great, or it could be not so good. It really depends on the way you look at it. For privacy and confidentiality it’s certainly good. On the other hand, if you are used to doing business the North American or European way, you might find Panama too laid back.
I’ve just finished a completely new e-book on this subject: “Eight Important Things You Should Know Before You do Business in Panama.” I’m offering it absolutely free for a limited time, in association with Q Wealth Report. As we say on the page at Q Wealth where you can claim your Free Panama Offshore Report:
So how do you know where to get started? Whom can you trust? Panama seems to be full of lawyers, company formation agents and even realtors eager to sell you Corporations and Foundations, with little practical information on how to use them. How do you tell the good lawyers from the bad? What can you really do with the bunch of papers in Spanish that you will receive? And is Panama right for you, when compared to other offshore tax haven jurisdictions?
It’s a serious matter. If you are thinking of investing your offshore nest-egg in a Panama bank, or entrusting your financial and personal asset protection strategy to a Panama lawyer or law firm, you need to read this report first. Considering it’s free, there’s no reason why you wouldn’t sign up for it right now, I presume? It may not be free for much longer!
Here are just a few of the things you will learn in this FREE PANAMA REPORT:
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A very important question that most foreigners should ask their Panama lawyer but don’t – and how dealing with lawyers in Panama is NOTHING like dealing with lawyers back home
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Why nominee directors really have more control of your company than promoters of offshore services will tell you… why this is not good… and a simple but effective way to protect yourself from this nominee director risk.
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Is it really possible to open bank accounts by mail in Panama banks?
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Things you should and should not say when you visit your Panama offshore bank
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A very important fact you should know about Bearer Shares before you decide whether you really want one of those anonymous Bearer Share corporations.
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Minimum opening deposits in Panama banks. Which banks have low minimums? Which banks have high minimums?
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Which banks in Panama specifically are the best and worst for foreigners? Which will and will not accept US citizens as account holders?
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Gold bullion (gold coins, gold bars etc) is the ultimate in solid money to protect your assets from inflation. Can you buy it in Panama? Is it a good deal?
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The Forgotten Victims of May Day
By admin | May 1, 2009
Today, the first of May, workers of the world unite to celebrate what in England we call the May Day bank holiday. But there is a “dark side” to all this – the victims of socialism who are often forgotten by the mainstream media. I’m talking, of course, about the poor, downtrodden taxpayer!
I was reminded of this by a recent blog posting from Vera Verba called Unseen Victim: The Taxpayer at Q Wealth Report. Politicians, points out the posting, are famous for hiding the victims and exaggerating the benefits. Anyone who objects (or avoids or evades taxes, perhaps by opening a Swiss or offshore bank account, is portrayed as “cold, heartless and cruel” by the media. The great quote on this comes from the economist and scholar, Thomas Sowell:
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
Perhaps instead of the Workers Day, we should be looking at Tax Freedom Day. Tax Freedom Day is defined by Wikipedia as the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to fund its annual tax burden. Every dollar that is officially considered income by the government is counted, and every payment to the government that is officially considered a tax is counted. Taxes at all levels of government—local, state and federal—are included.
You can find examples of various tax freedom days on that Wikipedia link. Very few countries on the list have a tax freedom day before April. The United States Tax Freedom Day is – perhaps surprisingly to some – relatively early in the year, at April 13th. That still means all Americans work more than a quarter of the year just to keep the government going.
The UK’s Tax Freedom Day fell on June 2 last year. That means that the poor Brits (the ones still left in the UK, that is) are spending more than five months of the year working for the Chancellor, rather than working for themselves!
Yet pity the poor Norwegians, who will have to work until July 29th to cover their tax burden!
There are lots of reasons in this day and age to go offshore which have nothing to do with taxes. In fact, as I frequently point out, most of my clients these days go offshore for reasons that have nothing to do with taxes. When you become an expat and bill out your services through an ofshore company, you simplify your life so much. No need to waste time keeping records of expenses and tax deductions.
Most people would probably not object to a fair, low, flat tax. But if like me you think the way our governments spend money today is nothing short of evil in many cases, then paying tax really hurts, doesn’t it?
On a more positive note, the good thing is that the news is out. The Tea Parties – peaceful anti-tax protests across the USA – are a very encouraging sign. Perhaps even more significant, but less reported in the mainstream media, is the number of people who are opting out of the tax system altogether, simply by going to live – at least part time – in a country where they can legally carry on their lives and businesses without paying tax. Examples of these countries would be Panama and Belize, amongst others. And a good site where you can read more about such tax-free havens is Offshore World.
If you would like to know more, meanwhile, about how to use offshore banks to protect your assets from greedy governments, you could do no better than starting here at my blog. If you feel I could help you individually, remember I do free consultations for members of The Q Wealth Report. There’s a lot more stuff going free too if you are interested in reading more about this topic… like our FREE Offshore Banking and Asset Protection E-Mail Course e-mail course in association with Q Wealth Report. Have fun – and don’t feel too downtrodden today. There is help at hand. So don’t forget the victims – the taxpayer.
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Gold and Silver Cannot Evaporate – But Accounts Receivable Can!
By admin | April 30, 2009
Back in 1999, Alan Greenspan told the United States Congress, “Gold is always accepted and is the ultimate means of payment and is perceived to be an element of stability in the currency and in the ultimate value of the currency and that historically has always been the reason why governments hold gold.”
It’s rather a long sentence, but well worth re-reading. Especially if you are concerned about protecting your assets against inflation, devaluation or dollar collapse.
After all, traditional asset protection strategies involve making sure your ex spouse or creditors don’t get at your assets. That’s all very well as far as it goes – but by gradually devaluing fiat currencies like the dollar, the government is taking your money through the ultimate stealth tax. Because your assets can’t just be counted in dollars or pounds or euros. They should be counted in what you can buy with tose dollars, pounds and euros!
Now, getting back to Alan Greenspan’s words, here’s a thought. Water’s boiling point is 99.974 °C or 211.95 °F. Gold’s boiling point is 2,856 °C or 5,173 °F. Silver’s boiling point is 2,162 °C or 3,924 °F. Gold is also extremely resistant to corrosion and can sit at the bottom of the corrosive ocean for centuries and still retain its luster. (That’s why it’s fun to go diving underwater for sunken treasure ships!)
In other words, physical gold like coins and bullion bars cannot evaporate when used as a currency in ordinary daily transactions, nor when hoarded safely in vaults. At all times and in all circumstances gold remains money.
Obligations – or accounts receivable – can, however, mysteriously evaporate. We’ve seen that happen so many times recently. Starting with securitized sub-prime mortgages, then with giant ponzi schemes, not to mention iniquitous civil asset forfeiture orders against bank accounts.
Bear this in mind when you consider how to invest in gold. Do you want “accounts receivable” denominated in gold like gold ETFs or other methods of holding gold in brokerage accounts? Or do you want real, physical gold and silver bullion investments? Over to you.
Interested in Offshore Gold Bullion Investments? Learn more about How to Buy and Hold Gold Bullion Securely Offshore by visiting The Q Wealth Report
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Buying Gold Bullion Offshore: Your Safe Haven for Asset Protection
By admin | April 30, 2009
I’ve been kept very busy in recent weeks by a flood of new clients looking for real offshore asset protection.
By that I mean people are finally catching on to the fact that it’s all very well to protect your assets against the tax man or ex-spouse, but a real clear and present danger is that your assets are swept away from you through the back door through inflation and devaluation. If you’re not careful, you’ll be so distracted by things like pig flu that you won’t even notice the government has stolen your money!
And no offshore bank account can protect against this, because offshore bank accounts are denominated in fiat money too.
What I mean is this. You might well start with $1,000,000 in your account and finish the year with $1,000,000 in your account. Since everybody else has been suffering huge losses, you might think you have done well to “protect” your assets. Yet, if that $1,000,000 buys you less than it did a year ago, you have lost out.
In my personal opinion, all major currencies are all set to crash, and it is just a matter of how far and how fast. In the UK, the government literally gave the Bank of England a licence to print money in secret, removing the oversight that has been in place since 1844. As for the Euro, a recent article in The Daily Telegraph points out that, according to Merrill Lynch, the rich “are so alarmed by the state of the financial system and signs of political instability around the world that they are now insisting on the purchase of gold bars, shunning derivatives or ‘paper’ proxies.” One of the reasons quoted for this is the insecurity in Greece and the impending collapse of the euro.
And of course, it’s worth pointing out again the reason for buying physical gold bullion, as in gold bars, gold coins and gold nuggets. Although convenient, in times of crisis holding an exchange traded fund is not the same as holding real gold. What happens, for example, if your broker or the fund manager goes under? Title to the actual gold is not in your name. You cannot lay your hands on it. With physical gold bullion, you can.
Yes it is scaremongering indeed – something I’ve been doing proudly for years, and it does vindicate my position somewhat that my advice, ideas that might have seen way out even when I started blogging here in last year, is now being rehashed by The Daily Telegraph. (Refer, for example, to my article How and Why You Should Buy Physical Gold Offshore posted at lowtax.net before the recession hit really hard…)
Following up on that advice on how to invest in gold bullion offshore as part of a diversified portfolio, buying gold bullion has become quite difficult lately. Demand has shot up, as have premiums. I’ve been looking in to offshore safe deposit box options, and have also found an unusual way to buy physical gold bullion direct from an offshore company that owns the hard mining assets, bypassing the usual cartel.
All is revealed in The Gold Report: How to Buy and Store Physical Gold Offshore, available free of charge to readers of The Q Wealth Report. If you haven’t yet got your copy, sign up today!
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