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El Salvador: No Access to Customs
Salvadoran Army veterans prevented the passing of goods through customs at key border points during the second week of January, causing delays in the shipment of goods to destinations in Central...
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7 Top Nations for Dodging Taxes à la Depardieu
Higher U.S. tax brackets may tempt some to follow French actor Gerard Depardieu’s lead and ditch their citizenship to avoid higher tax rates, but experts warn that making such an exit is often a...
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Why Is This Successful Businessman Searching for an Escape Hatch from America?
Jerry Loftus is laid-back, inquisitive, and easy to talk to. He is also a successful U.S. businessman, but like so many others is considering leaving the United States as he faces the possibility that...
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Cash-Strapped Costa Rica Looks to Its Borders for Income
As part of the border posts improvement plan, Costa Rica is proposing a toll, charging $25 per export declaration and $5 per person. The charge would be implemented at the border crossings of Peñas...
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Fruit-Loopy Goodness! Belize Gets a New Logo
After 26 years, the Belize Tourism Board gets a new logo, but some critics say it doesn’t make the grade. Original Article Text From Belize Adventure: Belize Gets A New Logo! Yay or Nay? After 26...
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Here’s Why Costa Rica Should Be Dollarized
Let’s cut to the chase: Costa Rica should be dollarized. In his blog “Por la libre” published in Elfinancierocr.com, Juan Carlos Hidalgo reviews the alternatives for monetary policy in Costa Rica,...
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The One Reason Why Luxury Home Taxes Are Higher in Costa Rica
Property taxes on luxury homes in Costa Rica will increase 10-fold following recent adjustments made by the Ministry of Hacienda. The primary change is to the definition of a ‘luxury’ home, meaning...
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Experts Warn: Costa Rica’s Unstable Economy Needs Capital Controls
Costa Rica will propose capital controls to Congress in a bid to tackle a recent surge in financial inflows that threaten to boost the currency and destabilize the economy. Original Article Text From...
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How Will Central America Keep Growing Its Tourism Base?
After a successful 2012 tourism season, Central America tourism leaders are committed to furthering the region’s tourism growth potential. Original Article Text From Caribbean Digital News via Google...
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How Thousands of Businessmen Are Shaping Nicaragua
An article by Humberto Belli Pereira in Prensa Nicaragua captures the potential beneficial economic shifts tourism and foreigners can bring to Nicaragua, a country ruled by a leftist party whose...
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Honduras Says Yes, Approves Model Cities…Again
Model Cities are on once again for Honduras, after recently being declared unconstitutional by its Supreme Court. Original Article Text From el Periodico via Google Translate : Honduras Adopted the...
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2 Travel Mistakes That Have You Paying Extra in Nicaragua
Do your due diligence and figure out the exchange rate before you travel. In Nicaragua the exchange rate is roughly $1 to 24 Córdoba’s and it’s often easy to be had, as one surfer found out as he took...
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Here’s Why Obamacare Will Benefit Foreign Hospitals
There is a double whammy waiting to happen when Obamacare is up and running in 2014 and this new policy collides with a rapidly aging population. The result: pronounced healthcare shortages driving...
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Here Is How Burdensome U.S. Tax Laws Have Become for Some Expats
While the media seems to focus on billionaires who renounce U.S. citizenship to avoid taxes, most who are renouncing are “people who have changed circumstances; people … who have lived and worked...
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2 Reasons Why You’ll Never Be Able to Walk Away from the Dollar As an Expat
It seems for those worried about the future of the U.S. Dollar it’s time to distance yourself, maybe even take strategic steps to diversifying asset holdings. But the truth is, that if you’re a U.S....
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A Few Things You Should Know About the History Behind Tax Havens
The history of offshore finance has been around since the late 19th century, when the American state of New Jersey eased its business registration and tax laws to increase revenues flows during a...
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Is There a Repeal of FATCA on the Horizon?
Some financial experts say the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is losing steam. Nigel Green, chief executive of the deVere Group, thinks so. The U.S. Treasury Department just missed another deadline...
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Why Did This Nation Sign One of the Wackiest FATCA Agreements Yet?
Switzerland has agreed to tell the IRS about all U.S. citizen’s offshore accounts, but there is a catch, unlike other FATCA agreements, the nation will allow its banks to sign up directly with the U.S....
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Panama “Tax Haven” to Uber-Rich Germans
Germany’s super rich are stashing their cash as far afield as Panama in search of an offshore tax haven, where high profile names, such as Porsche and Jacobs, have founded off-shore corporations....
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How Mexico Got Its Game Back (But Might Lose It Anyway)
Over the past few weeks, a flurry of glowing headlines around the world were announcing that Mexico will eclipse Brazil, and perhaps even India and China, as the world’s most promising economic star....
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Discover the Truth About Why 6 Million People Want to Become Expats
A growing number of Americans are thinking about becoming expats, according to America Way and Zogby International. Those saying yes to relocation abroad have increased to roughly 2.5% or about 6...
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What National Geographic Can Teach Us About the Battle Waging in Ecuador’s...
Along Ecuador’s eastern border with Peru sits Yasuní National Park; with close to one million hectares, Yasuni is the largest expanse of protected lowland tropical forest in the country. More...
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Border Crossing Mistakes That Make You Look Dumb (at least in Costa Rica)
Walking across a land border seems like you’re entering into a no-man’s-land of confusion. At an airport, VIPs enter and zoom through in blackened sedans, but when you walk across a frontier,...
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Here’s How Mitt Romney Helped Belize Remain a Top Tax Haven
After enjoying its 15 minutes of fame during Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, tax havens are now being promoted more openly than ever, as investment companies try to increase rich people’s fears...
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Nicargua: U.S. Holding Company Snatching Up Remote Coastal Lands
Spending $1.325 million on 134 acres of a remote bay on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, U.S. Holding Company has large plans to develop to sub-divide the property and develop a fuel dock, servicing...
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How to Navigate Panama’s Cultural “System”
One expects culture shock when visiting a new country, however visiting Panama can be a bit more of a challenge. That’s because there seems to be a universal “system” which no one is capable of...
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