Both the Offshore Company Formation and the Merchant Account Industry takes a great amount of knowledge to not mislead clients who think they are in good hands just to later on in the process to find out they didn’t have what they paid for.

In fact everyone can open a Merchant Account and establish an Offshore Company but only a handful are able to make the right setup.

How can it be setup wrong?

Very simple, if the Agent which established your Offshore Company just has a reseller agreement with some accidental provider then it is common to just submit your application to this one, that’s good you think?! Stay on here, now there are so many Merchant Account resellers out there and processors which just started up, that the chance to get your case in wrong hands is almost 95% this you won’t find out at the beginning but if your Merchant Account is wrong coded or they placed your new established Offshore Company in the wrong Visa or MasterCard region you will get big troubles and your entire setup will be shut down and be worthless.

With so many “new kids on the block” in the Payment Industry you can easily risk that the processor which your Agent advised to use is that hungry that they take on any business case also the Merchant case which are out for a scam and will blow up the processor. This will affect you in the way that you risk the volume processed will not be paid and this company will disappear.

Also often seen is that a processor (calculate their profit) first take on a new Merchant Case as new business (while just incorporated in an Offshore Jurisdiction) and after a few month cheese the account and freeze it because they will claim it isn’t legal business.

Since I have been in both businesses for many years I have seen a lot of incidences, the forums around the Internet are full of examples from both sites (the Merchant and the Payment Processor) and in almost any case it is because of a confusion about what it all is about.

Only an Agent which knows the Offshore Company formation business or has a really good network of Tax Advisors and Legal Advisors to back up is trustworthy to go with and can ensure you get the right solution, this applies also for the Payment Processing Industry, you will need to have been in this business for many years and have followed the marked close to be able to advice Online Businesses for the solution that they need.

Don’t be fooled into anything make a good check on the company you consider to go with, ask questions and look how good they are established on the Internet, do they only have a single webpage or have they a well established an sophisticated Internet presents!

I see cases on a daily basis, in our company we get every day a merchant, a processor or an offshore agent which want to work with us and which obviously is new into this. We get requests by people which just have a lousy website and tell us they have been in the business for ages. Sad it is so and it makes it more important than ever to take a close look at the company you consider to deal with.

For more information or the right Offshore Company Formation setup, please contact CCLOGIC

It depends very much on what you are going to use the Cyprus Company for, if you are conducting business on the Internet and seeking a reliable and trusted jurisdiction which is control body is within the European Union then and you need a reliable credit card processing solution then you will have a lot of benefits compared to any Caribbean jurisdiction.

One of the major benefits are that Cyprus is a member of the EU (European Union) it guards for stability (even in this financial crisis) and for protection of your assets and moneys.

Second but not less important, if you run an Online Business and you want to have the possibility to become a Merchant Account with an EU bank you will need to have an EU entity and which also is accepted by the banks. A Cyprus Company is accepted by all banks in Europe and at the same time offers you the same benefits of low to no TAX of net income, assets protection the possibility to anonymize your company or the beneficial owner.

What is a merchant account?
A merchant account is a “bank account” you need with a Acquiring bank that will offer you the possibility to accept credit card payments on your website, you can read much more about it on our blog which is covering this topic from A to Z.

What is a Offshore company?
An offshore company is a company which conducts business in an offshore jurisdiction and is mostly protected by government secrecy and assets protection. Most Offshore Companies are used as Holding Companies or as Shelf Company to get access to EU business.

Visit CCLOGIC LLC today and find out how we can incorporate your offshore company.

The problem many people have is that they want to be anonymously and at the same time don’t want to pay TAX, that’s almost not possible.

Below are 3 ways to structure your company and still not pay any TAX as a foreigner:

1.       You register your Cyprus Company as regular and don’t choose any Nominee Share holder or Director but register yourself or a business partner as director and shareholder, this will give the company the status of a foreign business company (International Business Company) owned by non Cypriot’s. The company now doesn’t need to pay any TAX! The beneficial owner of the company, the directors and shareholders will be public available in Cyprus.

2.       You register your company with a nominee shareholder and director and you will have a 100% anonymously company. This will don’t give you any benefit for avoiding TAX a 10% TAX is payable on the company’s net profit.

3.       You establish the company with the director and shareholder to be a foreign company, this could for instant be Belize, Panama or The Netherlands Antilles. This will give the company the status of an IBC (International Business Company) and the TAX that has to be paid is 0%. This constellation will also give you a 100% anonymously company.

We have several ways to help you in regards to avoid TAX and also become anonymously.

Please contact CCLOGIC LLC today for your Cyprus business setup and we will be more then glad to help you.

To explain it I will start to say that it is in any way mandatory to have a nominee shareholder or director for your Cyprus company formation.

A nominee shareholder:
This is a person which is a Cypriot and which is acting as shareholder on behalf of the beneficial owner of the company and which can be any person as long as he is a resident of Cyprus. (for this purpose)

A nominee director:
It is almost the same as a nominee shareholder, the different lays in that the director will have a power to act on behalf of the Cyprus Company and can finalize business deals on behalf of you without prior notice.

When we go and register Cyprus companies and our client’s business is of nature of where they are not willing to release their own identity (this can be for many reasons) but rather will have the entity operating as a anonymous vehicle to operate their day to day business, then we advice to use the instruments of a nominee shareholder and director, this will absolutely give them the best protection of identity and beneficial owner release.

Now that said, we get many questions each days for people wanting to register a Cyprus Company and which want to stay anonymously how they can be sure that the nominees don’t withdraw moneys from their accounts and how the beneficial owner can act on behalf of the company!

First of all, a beneficial owner of a Cyprus Company will become a Power of Attorney ( POA )  which will last for a period and which can be renewed upon request at any time. With the POA the beneficial owner can act on behalf of the company as would it not exists, bank accounts can be opened, business contracts can be signed and all the daily tasks can be fulfillment and be legit.

It is an obvious question to ask if the Nominees will run with your moneys and even think about it, first of all the nominees we use are all employed by our company or business partners, they only act as the term says Nominees, they won’t have access to clients bank accounts, basically to the reason that they will never see the account number, the pin codes or have the password for the Internet Banking facilities which comes with the opening of a Cyprus bank Account.

Except that, then a nominee shareholder and director will have a agreement with the trustee that will responsible for the company which disallow them to act on behalf of the clients company without written accept by the client. In fact they even not have the power to do so.

For more information on Cyprus Company Formation, please visit our website.
Please also visit our Merchant Services Offshore Discussion forum to get answers to any questions you might have and to see what others are doing.

The ability to hide your identity is essential for authors who want to commit activities through the use of an offshore company for conducting business in a gray zone area .

Cyprus, while foreign companies and companies in general, provide a degree of “natural”, the anonymity of its owner, anonymity can be enhanced by using a variety of mechanisms, such as shareholders and administrators candidate.
These mechanisms can be used to conceal the identity of the owners of the authorities.

Cyprus within your company, you can not hide the identity of the owners of the authorities, because they require the beneficiary to be effective in their archives.

To avoid the registration of the owner, you can have another company, for example, into the sea to be the owner of your company in Cyprus, Seychelles offer 100% anonymous, but the limits of their opportunities.

In most other offshore jurisdictions main instrument used to record anonymous, are:

Bearer shares
Bearer shares are negotiable instruments which gives the property to the person holding the share certificate in bearer form.

Nominee Shareholders
Nominee Shareholders are used in most provinces. Regarding the shares traded, the candidates (registration of stocks) are common and legitimate, which is used to facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions.

Nominee Directors and corporate directors
Managers and directors of companies as ( “Company”) May also be used to conceal the identity of the beneficial owner, and makes use of the information provided to the Registrar of Societies less useful.

For more information or to register an offshore company Cyprus please contact the authorities cclogic.com have specialized in the formation of offshore and offshore bank accounts for
different services such as merchant account and payment processing,

The main reason why the decision was made to set up an offshore company is to reduce the amount of taxes paid. Everyone must pay taxes and the best of your business and make more money than you have to pay more taxes for any company who pays the tax benefits can reduce a significant amount. How much tax you pay varies from country to country, some countries have very low rates and save on overheads.

Going abroad of companies pay less taxes and less expenditure on them in creating and maintaining a business in a foreign country. These courts can often offer better legal protection of the jurisdiction where the company makes most of its business. Because these legal protections for foreign firms in May choose to create a training company, if desired. Companies prefer to remain anonymous for a number of reasons such as not being welcome in some countries, industry is one of those online gambling, casinos and other sites in the game of cards, Many companies in this sector are based on the high seas in small island countries such as Cyprus, but most people who use their services, will be the United States, Canada, UK and Europe.

Although the formation of an offshore company has its advantages there are also problems associated with it. There are many companies that require particular the confidence that foreign companies cannot provide. Examples of these industries, banking, insurance and financial advisors, some of these types of industries are not allowed to operate through an offshore account. In the United States, any contractor who works with the Department of Defense and other departments involved in information security should be based in the United States, by law.

Another point to consider if you want to create an offshore company is the means that could be perceived by others. The company cannot be viewed favorably by which they are based. Given the current global economic crisis, consumers are not at all impressed by any company they see as the strengthening of others to enrich themselves, but foreign companies are not illegal are certainly regarded as a method of reducing taxes they have to pay and reduce their costs. These savings were made at the expense of the government of their own country and may be regarded by some as a tax and to avoid not only deprives the government of taxes, but also people living in this country.

The creation of offshore companies has become a way of dealing with many types of industries and a variety of reasons. If you’re looking for the creation of an offshore company, it is essential to find a company or a consultant who is reliable, and established to organize and manage the process in a dynamic and competent. For more information on this company and the creation of Internet in Cyprus can help.

Please also visit our Offshore Merchant Services Discussion forum !  For Cyprus Company Formation, please visit CCLOGIC LLC today.

Our goal is to provide the most professional solution for our clients, we don’t want to be the cheapest and we do not enter into discussions about our fees.
We are that convince about our own performance that we only invoice a client if we are 100% sure not to fail our mission.

How do you differ from all the other companies?
CCLOGIC LLC is first of all compared to any other company in our industry, an independent consultancy firm, we are not married with any specifically bank or service agent to which we send all our clients. CCLOGOC LLC is extending their network of sub contractors each day and we know almost any aspect of the arena we are battling on.
In the opposite to many Payment Service Providers on the Internet which offer company formation, payment solutions or the opening of bank accounts and advertising strategies, then we have one thing in mind and what counts. If we haven’t put money into the solution we offer, why should our clients do? Our existing is because of the many clients who contact our company each day, we rely on them, and we want their reference on our client list.

CCLOGIC LLC is not in any way involved in any payment processing operations, nor are we involved in the day to day management of any Offshore Company or Offshore
Bank Account, no, we have used all our sub contractors for our own purpose (some of them for more than 5 years) and made our own experience with them, and they
are experts in what they are doing, that’s why we choice them as partners for CCLOGIC LLC.

The services CCLOGIC LLC offers are all in synergy with each other and that’s why we can handle all of them under one umbrella, we use them daily by our self with great success.

How we operate:
CCLOGIC LLC strives to deliver a fast, professional and reliable service to our existing and new clients, we won’t involve our self in any of our clients operations, and we don’t want to have access to our clients money. Also we want to have the right without any further details or discussion to discontinue the work with a client if we fell they are fooling us into a business we dislike or are just not honest about their entire business case. Most important to us is, we don’t want to waste our time on clients which don’t want to pay for the minutes and hours we are using on them, because they came to us because they had a issue they need to have solved, we didn’t contacted them.

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Banks corporate secrecy laws typically impose civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information, including information on the beneficial ownership and control of corporate vehicles. These laws diminish the capacity of authorities to obtain and share beneficial ownership and control information when they not provide mechanisms for domestic and international authorities fulfilling their regulatory/supervisory or law enforcement functions to access records.

Above is part of an article we found on a website of OECD. The purpose of the entire article is to inform people about the illicit use of bank accounts for laundering money or to hide money from tax authorities.
The main purpose for an offshore bank account is to have it opened in the name of the offshore company to be able to get all the benefits from your offshore company operation. Beside the tax benefits and asset protections possibility, often such offshore vehicles are used to be established by people which live in countries where they are unable to open an bank account.

Another widely used reason for opening an offshore bank account and an offshore company is if the business conducted is Internet based. The card associations has divided the world in about 6 regions and prohibit people from one region to clear credit card transactions in another region then where the company and the business is conducted. To work around this problem it is common to open an offshore company which fells into the region of where the Acquiring bank is located with whish the transactions should be cleared.

Other aspects are the legal issues of certain product or services, for example the distribution and selling of replicated products of brands is prohibited in most parts of the world if they are not licensed. In some countries it is however, possible to sell those products; typically China is such a country. To be able to sell such products on the Internet you will need to become a credit card acceptance agreement with a bank in the region where it is legal to sell the product. But those banks (as already explained above) require you to be incorporated in the same country as the Acquiring Bank. To work around this you will need to establish an offshore company for instant in China; since it can be overwhelming to open a company there it could be of benefit for you to have the Chinese entity to be owned by a “more close to you” company which in worth case can be liquidated and in that way not harm you or your economy.

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With your Cyprus Company you are unable to conceal the identity of the beneficial owners from the authorities since they require the beneficial owner to be registered with their archives.

To avoid the registration of the beneficial owner, you can have another company for example in the seashells to be the owner of your Cyprus company, Seychelles offer 100% anonymity but limit your trading possibilities.

In most other offshore jurisdictions the primary instruments used to archive anonymity are as follow:

Bearer shares
Bearer shares are negotiable instruments that accord ownership of corporation to the person who possesses the bearer share certificate.

Nominee shareholders
Nominee shareholders are utilized in most jurisdictions. With respect to publicly traded shares, nominees (registering shares in the names of stockbrokers) are commonly and legitimately, used to facilitate the clearance and settlement of trades.

Nominee directors and corporate directors
Nominee directors and corporations serving as directors (“corporate directors”) can also be misused to conceal the identity of the beneficial owner, and their use renders director information reported to the company’s registry less useful.

For more information to open or register your Cyprus Offshore company please contact cclogic.com they have specialized them self in the fields of offshore company formation and offshore bank accounts together with different merchant services like merchant account and payment processing.

It is known by all that an offshore company can be used to protect your assets and also be used as a vehicle to avoid TAX.

However in many cases a offshore company for instant in Cyprus is formed due to several benefits which a local company can’t give you, one of them is the right to make a loan in your own company. To “borrow” money in an LLC or LTD is prohibited in many European countries since it is in violation with the TAX authorities. But it is of great benefit for a new started entrepreneur if he can get the protection of a regular LTD and still is able to use the money for financing the company’s activities including his own salary.

How is it possible to get more money out of an IBC / Offshore Company for instant in Cyprus ? Very easy normal you need to have about EURO 17.000 to form a LTD in a European country, there are exceptions but for 80% of the countries in Europe it is the case, now when you have established the company with 100% of shares of an value of EUR 17.000 then you are not allowed to take some money out from the company to yourself. A Limited Liable Company need to have the status to be liquid and to assure your trading partners that you at least have the EUR 17.000 in assets or cash in the company and if the owner of that company by law was able to just take out the money exactly before the company for any reason declares bankruptcy then it would favor himself.

With a Cyprus Offshore Company or any other offshore company you are allowed as an resident of an European country to make loans in the company, let’s say you are starting to make money in the company, then you can money out of the company in two ways, one is as regular salary which will course you to up to 50% of the salary to the TAX authorities that can often be a problem, because you need to take more money out then if you don’t had to pay tax! So what to do? The second option is to take out the money as a loan, this loan can be made over a period of 10, 20, 30 or even 50 years if you like, and once the money is on your account you just need to report it to your local TAX authorities as a loan.

Hope you find this article informative, more are coming with more tips and tricks for your offshore company setup.

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