Good Evening, hope you'll doing well.
Upgraded to mentor group yesterday and started going through the threads. Went down the rabbit hole quite rapidly as expected. Learnt a lot and I have a clearer idea of how to start planning for a set-up. Thank you all for this information. However I would really appreciate if experienced people can help me connecting the dots.
Tax resident in EU country, all my business legit and clean last 20 years. Political and economical climate changing for the worst and coinciding with me earning almost all my income on the internet or through it. Doing trading, digital marketing and investing mainly, and some IT partnerships.
So my three dots that need a logical connection are:
I believe the way to go is by the invoice route, meaning one company will invoice the other to transfer funds to various accounts, Emis. I have people available to open EMIS and show as directors and /or shareholders for at least one of the companies.
Need to know if the nominee option still works for anonymity. Darks will be my last option.
Open to also throw in the mix the BTC-EMI-FIAT if it is valuable.
Those are the variables, I need help giving them a logical order to make this work. Any ideas or information you can point me to will be most welcome, in the meantime I will keep studying. Thank you.
You write "Objective is to optimize tax, not evasion. I will pay personal income tax on my declared income from this client.", but then - "one company will invoice the other to transfer funds to various accounts" which is technically structuring with no economic activity, so it would not fly well if someone would ever look this up? Which one is it that you want? Can you be more clear?
Nominee doesn't work for privacy\anonymity, your bank will report the UBO (you) to the country you are a resident in. Nominee is only good for hiding your name from public registry, but your home country will get automatic reports of your bank accounts from the BANK of each company in your chain so using it to avoid tax is no longer possible.
CFC means that whatever company you do will be deemed as a company in YOUR residence. For example if you're a German and you're running a UK LLP this UK LLP will be deemed a German company for tax and will need to pay German tax.
Bottom line if you are already working online, the easiest\most legal way would be to move to a law tax jurisdiction like Cyprus\Malta\Malaysia\etc, then open a UK LLP or some other one (Panama I think has shady reputation and will raise red flags). It'll be the cheapest and the only legal way to achieve what you want, besides you won't need to open so many companies so you'll save thousands of $ each year on renewal fees\nominee fees\etc. Another way is to get some paper residency in some other country (move to Belgium, leave Belgium, use your Belgium address to open companies\accounts etc so your accounts wil only be reported to Belgium, for example)
Good luck
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