March 2018

The Need for Caution around EB 5

The image above is from  https://cis.org/North/New-EB5-Fraud-Cases-Involves-Phony-Investment-Law-Firm Just key “EB5 fraud” or “EB5 scam” into the search window. Scary stuff pops up.  In 2013, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services jointly issued this Investor Alert to warn individual investors about fraudulent investment scams that

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The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) is closing!

On October 27th 2017, we warned you that changes to the IRS amnesty program were forthcoming. http://www.derrenjoseph.com/2017/10/bye-bye-johnbut-what-about-amnesty.html Note: The above reference link was live on March 2018, but it has since been taken down. For our clients that responded quickly?  Good.  For those that dragged their feet? The window is now closing. On March 13th,

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Tax Reform in the Philippines

The Philippines is an amazing country.  This week, the Philippines was deemed the“best country to invest in,” based on rankings released by US Newsand World Report.  The study gauged thecountries based on 65 attributes and included 21,000 respondents worldwide. USNews and World Report said it used criteria developed by The Wharton School ofthe University of

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