Product Description

Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Tax Havens Today arms you with the knowledge, strategies, and contacts needed to avoid expensive mistakes and make the most of your offshore endeavors. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this timely resource will bring you completely up to speed on a variety of issues that anyone aspiring to go offshore must be familiar with.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #546585 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780470051238
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Inside Flap
Anyone interested in "going offshore" in terms of their finances and investments needs to understand every aspect of this process in order to succeed. No one knows this better than international tax haven and offshore financial specialist Hoyt Barber. Fifteen years have passed since Barber first published one of the most well-rounded guides to the financial benefits and pitfalls of going offshore. Since that time, much has changed, yet little has been done to help you navigate this attractive, but complex, environment—until now.

Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Tax Havens Today arms you with the knowledge, strategies, and contacts needed to avoid expensive mistakes and make the most of your offshore endeavors. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this timely resource will bring you completely up to speed on a variety of issues that anyone aspiring to go offshore must be familiar with.

Using Tax Havens Today as your guide, you'll learn how to:

• Locate a diverse selection of offshore banking and investment options for any size investor as well as specific offshore tax planning and investment strategies
• Reduce taxes, defer taxes, and invest tax-free, while simultaneously protecting your assets and planning your estate—all from offshore
• Weigh the advantages and drawbacks of forty important tax havens
• Use twelve proven criteria to make intelligent decisions on the best tax havens for your particular situation
• Further pursue the exploration of tax-advantaged offshore retirement havens—and other countries with strong appeal to aspiring investors and expatriates

Tax Havens Today also contains over 500 contacts, including names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, and Web sites of the most important investment, banking, legal, and financial advisors in the world—all divided by tax haven or other jurisdiction—and a brief description of their areas of expertise.

While governments may have the right to collect taxes, you also have the right to protect your financial sovereignty. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Tax Havens Today will help you find everything you need to get started on the road to legally reducing taxes, sheltering assets, increasing profits, and living a better life.

From the Back Cover
Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be a millionaire to take advantage of today's tax havens. In order to go offshore with your financesand investments, all you need is the proper information and guidance.

Author Hoyt Barber is a renowned tax haven and offshore financial specialist, and in Tax Havens Today, he draws from his own professional experiences to help you make the most of your offshore endeavors.

Divided into four comprehensive parts, this informative guide will help you:

• Avoid expensive mistakes and stay within the boundaries of the law
• Reduce taxes, defer taxes, and invest tax-free
• Discover lucrative investment opportunities available only offshore
• Find and contact some of the most important offshore investment, banking, and financial advisors in the world
• Explore profiles of today's top forty tax haven jurisdictions
• Decide on alternative places to live or retire—over ninetyexpatriate-friendly countries are profiled
• And much more

Filled with unparalleled knowledge and invaluable insights, Tax Havens Today will bring you completely up to speed on a variety of issues that anyone aspiring to go offshore must be familiar with in order to succeed.

About the Author
HOYT BARBER is an authority on tax havens and offshore banking and has served as a financial consultant to clients worldwide. Barber has authored nine books, including his first novel, From Hell to Havana, released in 2006. Barber is President of Barber Financial Advisors in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a provider of offshore financial services, and is publisher of Offshore Dossier, a newsletter for American investors and expatriates. Visit the author's Web site at www.hoytbarber.com to learn more.

Customer Reviews

Disappointing
This book is unbelievably general, addressing topics in the most superficial manor. The book contains 324 pages; 111 of which are lists of names and addresses of banks and consultants around the world. The final 86 pages are essentially the entry requirements for travel to those countries. Only 127 pages contain sentences and paragraphs. Thirty of these pages are dedicated to berating the US government for everything under the sun, including the Iraq war. For useful information on international financial structures definitely look elsewhere.

Becareful with this Author
The book is basically a plug for their financial service. I spent a lot of time corresponding with them and purchased one of their offshore banking packages. I had detailed my overseas residency situation and expressed concerns about their ability to match me with my desired banking product. They assured me that there would be no problems and if there were, I would get a full refund. Six months later, I have no Swiss bank account and no refund.

The Best on the Topic, and More
I recommend this book as a fascinating read to anyone, whether or not they are interested in minimizing their tax-load legally. (And who isn't?) But while this book delivers brilliantly on that score, it is also an authoritative, entertaining manual that serves as a wake-up call on the state-of-the world these days. It treats the both the big picture and the important details of offshore, and provides excellent contacts for not just legally avoiding taxes, but also for protecting one's assets, future, and indeed, one's personal safety and sovereignty. Further, this is not only the best book on the topic by far, but it is the only current book by several years. And the author truly knows his topic. Fascinating, excellent read.