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Tax Havens of the World (8th edition/2003) covers all the major havens, including the Caymans, Bahamas, Bermuda, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Singapore, etc. The author has over 18 years reading and writing about tax havens and the US Tax Code that covers their use and abuse. Learn how non-resident aliens trade NYSE stocks, bonds, options and commodities - TAX FREE -legally - offshore like thousands of offshore banks and companies (IBCs) do!
Avoid federal income and estate taxes with the latest "trend" - the foreign offshore estate. US (domestic) estates - even with the repeal of the federal estate tax after 2010 - will still be subjected to Federal income and gift taxes, as well as State income, inheritance and estate taxes too! See page 254 of this edition.
The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Anguilla and Bermuda have no personal income taxes, no corporate income taxes, no capital gains taxes, no withholding taxes, no estate, gift or inheritance taxes, no sales taxes, no employment taxes, no death duties, and no probate fees. Guarantees against future taxes are provided by these governments for periods up to 50 years. Exempt trusts can receive a guarantee up to 100 years.
Customer Reviews:
Poorly Written Overview of tax heavens.......2006-01-11
I expected to get advice on the legality of establishing an offshore corporation. In particular, how to legally retain earnings inside the corporation.
Instead I got a very general review of many World Tax Heavens, a kind of information I could read on the internet for free.
The book is strewn over with useless bits of information. Do I really need to know the quality of beaches in the Bahamas?
Do not buy this book if you want useful guide to offshore copmany formation and tax planning.
Learn how wealthy american fleece the working stiff.......2003-11-28
I always get a couple of laughs when I see these 'tax haven' and 'offshore banking books' marketed to the general public as some sort of panacea for confiscatory taxation. As if some working stiff (like me) can swim up to the pool bar at the hotel in the Caymans and rub elbows with other 'tax refugees' and flip the bird to the IRS. GIVE ME A BREAK. This subject was a pet hobby of mine over the last 6 years and let me tell you that unless you are in the top 1% of income earning americans this book is useless to you. Unless you have a hundred thousand dollars you can blow in attorneys fees to set up your 'technically' legal International Business Corporation, and have a team of CPA's certifiy your tax returns 'assuring' the government that you 'really really' dont own the other 98% of your corporation you can not LEGALLY use the ideas contained in this book. If you wanted an explanation of how the international tax laws work, while at the same time how you could break the tax laws and hide and deposit money in a place like the Bahamas you can use this book. BUT, no matter what type of person you are, you ought to study tax havens for 5 years before you do anything, legal or otherwise.
You need five years to see that a good portion of the 'tax haven' world is nothing but an international racket filled with international con-men. While this book may be dedicated to Patrick Henry 'Give me Liberty and Give me Death' and the American resistance against BRitish Taxation, the persons and mostly corporations illustrated in this book do nothing but fleece the working stiff.
Reading between the lines, all the americans who had to leave the United States to live in these tax free jurisdictions did so because they broke a serious law and were facing jail time. Do you really think that when they got to Costa Rica they stopped operating their business. Between tax cheating felons, guys that welshed out on their spouses in divorce settlements, or people who were sued and are escaping judgments, the tax havens themselves are filled with criminals on the lam.
Case in point, this book mentions that American Doctors facing killer lawsuits often have bank accounts and monies in tax havens because they are judgment proof! Normally Doctors have this incredible thing called 'Malpractice Insurance' that pays out on claims. If a doctor is escaping a judgment it is because he did not carry malpracice insurance (that tells you about the doctor right there) OR the Doctor committed a serious crime, like a sexual battery, in the course of his professioal duties so that his insurance company disclaimed coverage. In either case I think the picture is clear. Remember OJ Simpson going to the Isle of Mann off of England during the murder trial ;)
Furthermore, over the past 5 years I have seen the IRS and Congress move steadily in the direction of stopping tax haven activity entirely. It is mentioned in this work that you cna get an offshore debit card that looks like a regular Visa or Mastercard. So in that manner you could spend your undeclared dividends and interest in the USA. Well that was great until the IRS subpoenad all the Mastercard accounts where the receipts were generated to credit networks set off in a few key areas. Now who do you think is going to be audited.
Furthermore, there have been some spectacular bank failures in these tax havens, and remember there is no FDIC. The oft touted bank secrecy laws in these countries are great until an enterpirsing government agency gets a back door plant in these institutions with Mr. Benjamin Franklin taking the lead.
Really, this book is the best on the subject of tax havens by far. In fact I think this is the only book that has a TECHNICALLY legal way for them to be used by a U.S. Citizen. The book is well written and appears to cover all the bases, but I assure you it does not. The book is similar somewhat to a prospecuts of a risky investment or tax shelter that a bunch of clever lawyers and accountants have come up with. Technical compliance with tax laws will most likely spare you criminal prosecution if you get called on it, but of course you can still be hit with civil penalties.
As an American you should be AWARE of the existence of this aspect of international finance. You should be aware that you have monetary escape routes in the event of disaster, and really, this book will open your eyes to a world 99% of america knows nothing about, but it is no 'everyone can do it' tax shelter. This is a corporate shell game, and I believe the recent Enron debacle involved the use of offshore vehicles to disguise losses and such, that fleeces the public. With sufficient thought, it is hypocrital in the first degree to think that by allowing corporate fat cats and high net worth individuals to park billions offshore and pay no taxes, we, the wroking public, are somehow 'getting back' at the IRS. The only person getting killed here is me. Nothing more.
I give this book 4 stars because it is the best book on the subject, and is a good read. While it is romantic and fun to imagine oneself parking millions of dollars into some royal bank in Monaco and relaxing by the pool for the rest of your life while you pay no taxes, this is a pipe dream a sales pitch of this, and other books like it.
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A trader decides at the last minute that he can wait until Monday to liquidate his huge grain position. Torrential rains follow---the decision costs him two million dollars.
A company head conducts business in Europe, unaware that back home, an underling has gone crazy with his money in the bond pit. The official's loss--$1.25 million.
Three traders in different parts of the country get blindsided in the same stock takeover. They all lose despite the fact that one of them is positioned opposite the other two.
When Supertraders Meet Kryptonite recounts it all--the ups, the downs--the rebounds. Learning from the losses of others is, perhaps, the most instructive learning experience. Until this book, there was no work dealing exclusively with losses and how to cope with them.
Thirty-five brave, forthright and articulate traders address this subject headon. The result is a must-read for anyone who has ever put on a position and wondered, "My God, what do I do now?"
Interviews with:
Bill Beach
Tony Saliba
Charlie Wright
Adrienne Laris Toghraie
Linda Bradford Raschke
Lawrence G. McMillan
Larry Pesavento
Chuck Wafer
Damon Pavlatos
John McCracken
Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
Dr. Michael K. Hoffman
Steve L. Miller
Teresa Lo
Merton Feldstein
Pat Arbor
Joe DiNapoli
Scott Slutsky
Tim York
David Gray
Bruce Williams
Steve Moore
Bill Kragie
Ray Cahnman
Walter Bressert
Larry Rosenberg
Howard Malman
Mark Cook
Jack Kotz
Jack Baca
Don Sliter
Tom Willis
Connie Brown
Bob Martin
Tom Murray
Customer Reviews:
OK book..........2004-05-19
This book is not too bad. As the title suggests, it focuses on the horror stories of traders, many of whom are extremely successful.
There are a couple of problems with this book:
- The main problem is it's not very focused in terms of questioning surrounding the stuff up. Sorry, it just doesn't compare with Schwager's depth. The book is not a publication of the interview transcripts, I suspect there's a bit of reduction in some of the detail.
- The interviews are too short (again, may have to do with the focus on screw ups) that they sometimes end abruptly and the description of the interview subject is even longer than the actual substance of the interview!! Perhaps interview less people with more detail?
- I also think the writing is not as good as Schwager's. This is possibly a subjective issue, but I think it lacks clarity.
- There is a noticeable amount of spelling errors and some formatting errors (eg 2 lines between paragraphs). This is not a big deal, but does indicate lack of professionalism.
Don't fret, because there are many positives with this book:
- If you're looking at a purely motivational text, this could be what you're looking for. Even the best traders screw up royally.
- Simple english --> easy to understand with a very casual tone.
- Some great traders are included...
I think this ranks about the same as Schwager's newest Stock Market Wizards (which has its problems - see my review also).
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Phoenix Mountain Bikes
McQuaig
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England
F. W. Maitland
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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In an extended foreword, specially prepared for this new impression, J.C. Holt asserts categorically "that Domesday Book and Beyond remains the greatest single book on English medieval history." Its lucidity, subtlety, compass, and (remarkably) statistical facility stand quite unsurpassed and, as Professor Holt demonstrates, many of the arguments that have dominated English medieval scholarship during the ensuing ninety years stem directly from Maitland's own hypotheses and conclusions.
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Domesday Book: Photopoem (Critical Image)
Peter Kennard
Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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This book combines poetry, photography and photomontage to create a narrative of our time as we approach the Millennium. Kennard's narrator is a wandering figure who arrives at the Millennium Dome as it is still under construction. In a fragmentary and hallucinatory fashion, the narrator flicks through images of the 20th Century as though seeing the images on a projector. This attempt to find a new form for the photographic book is a creative example of the The Critical Image series, which was commissioned to illustrate the links between photography and power, and to reveal how photography builds a sense of reality and promotes "national interests." As the foremost practitioner of photomontage, Kennard is responsible for expanding and furthering the subject of photography itself.
Customer Reviews:
Brilliant.......2000-03-29
This is an innovative and new way of looking at the world. The author uses all means to give the reader an image of the world as he sees it as we enter the 21st century. This image however is deep and meaningful. The inequality, oppression and pain in the world is unearthed. This book does not use cliched methods and ideas but combines words and images like never before. They complement each other beautifully to create a painful and eyeopening yet visually beautiful and stimulating book. If you would take the red pill this is a must for you but if not then this book could still I believe have an impact.
Customer Reviews:
worked backwards from Domesday.......2007-07-06
This is a reprint of essays written in the 1890s, concerning pre-Norman England. Maitland had the fundamental insight of taking the famous Domesday Book, and working backwards from it. To infer about the social and economic structure of Saxon England, as it existed, just prior to the Norman conquest. Before Maitland's seminal work, it appears that other historians had used Domesday as a commentary on Norman England.
Maitland's insight stemmed from his observation that William the Conqueror had enough troops to defeat Harold. But that these were insufficient for a wholesale restructuring of England. Nor was there necessarily any desire by the Normans to do so. Instead, they replaced or merged with the Saxon ruling class. Leaving existing structures more or less intact.
The book does use a lot of Latin terms. While a typical well educated reader might be familiar with some common phrases, those in the book are another matter. In part, this reflects the changes between Victorian England, in which Maitland was from, and today's mileau. Latin is far less likely to be taught in Britain or overseas. Thus you might have to bear with the sonorous phrases scattered throughout the book.
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Domesday Essays (Exeter Studies in History)
Manufacturer: University of Exeter Press
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Richard Strauss (1864 -1949) always claimed that his music was a self-portrait, that he depicted himself, his nature, and his world in musical notes. From the charming autobiographical opera Intermezzo, based on a domestic misunderstanding, to the self-confident tone poem Ein Heldenleben, the composer's works relate to his personal experience as closely as those of any nineteenth-century Romantic. For the huge audience that enjoys the music of Strauss, Kurt Wilhelm's book has proved to be a cornucopia of information. Many of the numerous illustrations--taken from the private archive of the Strauss family--have never been published previously, and all are of immense historical interest. Skillfully woven around them is a detailed and revealing text, rich in anecdotes, quotations, and personal reminiscences by members of the Strauss family and contemporaries. The result is an intimate investigation of the private life, opinions, background, and works of Strauss that comes as close to the man as one is likely to get.
Customer Reviews:
Best English-language guide to Strauss the man.......2002-08-24
You can derive pleasure and profit from other books on Richard Strauss, notably Michael Kennedy's (my review of Kennedy's latest Strauss tome is already on Amazon.com) and Norman Del Mar's; but nobody can claim to know Strauss the human being who has not read Kurt Wilhelm's magisterial account. Wilhelm brings the day-to-day behavior of Strauss and his family to life, in a way that no previous biographer -- however diligent -- has managed to do. You finish this production feeling as if you have met the man.
Wilhelm appears to have been given the run of Strauss-related archives at Garmisch, Bavaria, which earlier chroniclers either couldn't or simply didn't use. Old enough to have corresponded with Strauss in person, Wilhelm (who spent part of the Nazi period in jail) is neither oppressively autobiographical nor mindlessly sycophantic: just quizzical, fair-minded, and courageous in his judgements. I don't imagine Strauss himself would have wanted any other sort of tribute.
The pity is that for this English translation (which itself reads very fluently), the original German text has been considerably cut. It remains a splendid book anyhow; but one wonders why any of it had to be omitted. Do English-speaking readers, even in the brave new world of LITTLE BRITAIN, deserve to be treated as morons?
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Masa: Odyssey of an American Jew
Lewis H. Weinstein
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