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How do I get an offshore bank account?

For a depositor offshore banking is associated with the services of a bank from the country other than his country of residence. If you have invested or deposited funds to a bank outside the country (referred as “Offshore Bank”), where you live, you are engaged in offshore banking. On the other hand, any bank in your country of residence is often referred as a domestic bank.
There are two main myths about offshore banking. First of all, the public mistakenly links offshore banking to criminal activities, terrorism-financing and money laundering. Secondly, people think that offshore banking services are only for high-income class, since ordinary people cannot afford them.

What are the benefits of offshore banking?

Offshore banking services provide wide range of benefits and opens up distinct opportunities. Opening such an account provides a powerful tool for keeping money secure and making it exempted from taxes. Using an offshore bank account provides opportunities that are not available to domestic banking users. The most important of those are bank secrecy / confidentiality and exemption from taxes on gains. Income generated in form of interest on deposits is not taxed by the income tax. Customers also get possibility to invest globally.

Perhaps the most important benefit that offshore banking provides is that the account is strictly private. The confidentiality of all operations conducted through the account is protected by the legislation. The account is protected from creditors, tax authorities and other interested parties. It is to some extent a defense tool.
How do I get an offshore bank account?

Very easily. Open an account in Saint Vincent, Caribe Offshore Bank Account multicurrency, US dollars or Euros in minutes

Why to go offshore?

Offshore banking centers open wide range of opportunities for its users: access to innovative banking products, anonymity, safety, politically and economically safe environment. Benefits of going offshore are discussed here

Can I avoid taxes with offshore banking?

Most offshore banking centers are at the same time tax havens (low or no tax jurisdictions). Some offshore jurisdictions exempt all incomes from all taxes, while others exempt only those incomes that were generated by sources outside the jurisdiction. Although offshore banking centers do not tax your incomes, your home country may be taxing foreign generated income. So you must check your country’s legislation: if your countries authorities do not tax income generated from foreign sources, then your offshore incomes shall not be taxed, but if they do (like US does), you should report them, otherwise it will be considered as tax evasion.

Is offshore banking legal?

Answer to this question is quite simple: it is legal; nobody is arrested for having offshore bank account. Opening offshore bank account is absolutely legal service provided by a financial institution that is licensed in full compliance with the legislation of a tax haven.
What can be illegal is when a person holds offshore bank account, receives an income and does not report this income in his home country, if the country’s legislation requires that. In other words using offshore banking is legal, but using offshore banking for illegal operations, such as tax evasion is illegal. Read more…