For the International Entrepreneurs
If you use your US LLC as a shareholder of another non-US company, and this non-US company has a bank account: you have to file a FBAR report every year if that shareholding is equal or more than 50%. The penalty for not filing is US$10,000. You might want to change your structure as soon…
The Wyoming Secretary of State is increasing its prices: from $50 to $60 for the Annual Report ; from $0 to $5 for a change of registered agent ; $10 per Series (at creation time or incorporation time). It was possible to create an unlimited amount of Series before that date: too bad if you…
In a world where transparency is always increasing: the US has adopted the “Corporate Transparency Act” requiring the disclosure of any Beneficial Owner having over 25% control. The Act includes the LLCs and Statutory Trusts as reporting entities. This will be enforced no later than: 1st January 2023. Failure to comply with the Act’s reporting…
In March 2020 the beneficial owners of every companies in the Seychelles will be registered in a database to which the Financial Intelligence Unit and other local agencies have direct access. The register only accepts natural persons and do not accept legal persons. It has to be noted that both the nominee and the nominator…
What a genocide by the Belize IFSC: they did not renew 16 operators. The announcement is made at the end of April 2020 with effect from the 1st January 2020! That is a real problem with license-based jurisdictions (Seychelles is another one): suddenly an entire list of companies created by those operators become illegal. This…
Effective 1st of April 2020: the yearly maintenance fee increases from US$450 to US$500 for all LLCs and IBCs. Partnerships and Foreign Maritime Entity (FME) are unchanged. This increase is due to the cost of compliance with the Economic Substance regulations pushed by the European Union onto the Marshall Islands. Talking about Sovereignty: do not…
Under the pressure of the OCED and the EU: Dominica abolishes the previously granted 20 years tax exemption to all IBCs. Taxation rate will now be 30% of worldwide profits starting on the 1st January 2022. Full legal reference: International Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2019, ACT 2 of 2019 http://www.dominica.gov.dm/laws/2019/International Business Companies (Amendment) Act 2019.pdf
On its way to the US Senate, this bill (H.R. 2513) will make mandatory the disclosure of beneficial owner(s) of any LLC or Corporation: anybody with more than 25% ownership. Annual reports will be made to FinCEN. The disclosed information will not be publicly available. The data to be disclosed will be: the full legal…
The worldwide industry of non-resident, low tax or tax neutral companies is panicking: all the big accounting firms (Deloitte, Ernest and Young, KMPG, and PWC) have been overwhelmed by a wave of recent legislation adopted by many jurisdictions at once. The call (shot?) has been made by the European Commission in Brussels regarding the non-cooperative…
Anguilla has adopted Economic Substance regulations in a very detailed manner.
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