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Feb
03/09

Firms choose to set up its office in another country to become an offshore company!

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 12:41
Written by peter
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Firms choose to set up its office in another country to become an offshore company. An offshore company is one that can do business in the world or just within a country, but his seat or office is in another country. There are several advantages of having an offshore company, which are described here.

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.

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Jan
26/09

The advantage of using CCLOGIC LLC for your Internet Online Business

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 12:49
Written by peter
Monday, January 26th, 2009

We at CCLOGIC LLC are an independent consultancy and expert company, each of the individuals working for CCLOGIC LLC is handpicked from the industries which our consultancy services cover.

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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Jan
23/09

Bank and corporate secrecy laws, offshore vehicles and merchant accounts in offshore jurisdictions.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 12:51
Written by peter
Friday, January 23rd, 2009

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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Jan
17/09

The anonymity of IBCs also called offshore companies is the reason for misused

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 12:56
Written by peter
Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Because of the strong anonymity a offshore company can provide if it is setup correctly it is often also misused for money laundering and other activities which violates the tax regulations in most countries.

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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Jan
14/09

Do I need to visit the country where I want my offshore company?

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 12:59
Written by peter
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

This is an often asked question and also something people think and which stops them to get an offshore company.

The fact is in the time of Internet, you can get an offshore company where ever you want without to have to travel to any of the countries. Most agents will ask you for proof of identity and that’s all.

You can have a company formed for instant in Cyprus if you like without visiting Cyprus, all you need it to find an agent that is able to do the offshore company formation for you. Once your ordered the company then all documents and the certificate will be send to you by post mail or courier to your home address and that’s all.

I wrote an article about this before, but above should clarify the questions which may be still there when you consider opening an offshore company.

A snap from the article:

You are not required to actually live in the country where your offshore company is registered and that is why it is so popular with all types of industries. There are no restrictions placed on you based on your residence and who controls the company is entirely your decision, you can control it yourself or allocate an agent who is located on the offshore territory to take care of everything for you. Many industries that conduct trade all over the world do so through offshore international business centers and a large majority of the worlds hard currency is kept in offshore banks, much more than anyone realizes and this figure is likely to keep growing and developing for companies and individuals

However, a good thing is always to visit the people you are doing business with, and can’t harm you if you see your business partner face to face, maybe they might have some other solution relative to your offshore company which they didn’t told you simply while they forgot.

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Jan
13/09

Should I buy a ready-made company or get a new incorporated offshore company ?

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:02
Written by peter
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Should I buy a ready-made company or get a new incorporated offshore company ?

It is a good question, for some time ago I wrote an article about this topic which I’m now going to go into details with.

You are able to purchase a readymade offshore company if that is what you require with the agency providing a nominee director and nominee shareholder, or you can re-register the company and assign your own people as company director, secretary and shareholders. The choice is yours and can be fitted to suit your requirements. If you are concerned that the ready to trade offshore companies might have outstanding liabilities or have procured debts there is no need as the companies are clear of any trade or transactions since the day they were registered.

If you are in a hurry because you need to start trading with whatever you go and sell, then a “ready-made” offshore company is a good solution, you should just be aware of one of the following before you just take on a pre registered / readymade company.

You will need to have you agency to get a letter from the owner of the company you go and buy, that there are no liabilities in this company, that it never has trade before, and that once you paid for the company, then no one can claim any share of the profit which this company is going to make.

If you can’t get a letter like this or you are unable to figure out if there are any liabilities in the company, then don’t buy it. Ask your agent to form a new company which might take some longer time, but you are 100% sure that you don’t get into troubles later.

And have in mind, if you plan that this offshore company will make your living in the future, then make sure nothing will stop you or no one can claim any share of the profit.

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Jan
09/09

The way to setup a anonymous company in an offshore jurisdiction.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:07
Written by peter
Friday, January 9th, 2009

While much have been said about Offshore company incorporation and all the benefits it has, then many people that go and form an offshore company for instant in Cyprus are not aware of the possibilities to form the company anonymously.

In an earlier article we published you could read;

There are a number of benefits to individuals and companies that decide to set up an offshore company. Taxation is the biggest advantage as the company can be established in such as way that the tax that has to be paid is kept to a minimum. An offshore business is a much simpler and straight-forward process than onshore businesses due to the fact that most offshore jurisdictions have simplified the whole set up process to make it as easy as possible for these companies. There is a higher level of legal protection offered by offshore jurisdictions a they impose more stringent conditions on agreeing to let the courts view corporations records, also in most cases if an offshore company is facing a law suit against it then the corporate governance rules call for the laws of the jurisdiction to where the company is registered to apply, and not the country in which it is being sued.

If you read between the lines here you will probably note that we want to lead your attention to the asset protection, most people and business think that just because they have moved their activities offshore to for instant Cyprus, then they are protected, that’s almost true but to bring your protection to the next level you should consider to take your Offshore company to be anonymously. No one will in anyway be able to trace down who owns the company if you don’t tell it to anyone.

If you make your offshore company anonymously and get in economical troubles, then the money and assets in your offshore company are 100% protected from any creditor and from anyone who claims to have due payments with your company.

It has been proven several times by court decisions that it is almost impossible to get hold of a offshore company for instant in Cyprus if the company has been legit and no criminal activities was involved.

People that think they can do any business also illegal business in an offshore company should be carefully they are not protected which also is good, you should never start a business with the goal to cheat people of have some illegal activity going on, that’s against the laws worldwide and they will catch you.

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Dec
13/08

An offshore bank is simply a bank where you can open an account but it is not in the country where you reside.

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 December 2008 02:22
Written by peter
Saturday, December 13th, 2008

An offshore bank is simply a bank where you can open an account but it is not in the country where you reside. Most people decide to open a bank account in a country where there is no tax to pay or the rates are extremely low, one that provides financial and legal benefits, opening a Cyprus bank account can give you many of these benefits.

Advantages to opening a bank account in Cyprus include a great deal of privacy and confidentiality as well as less restrictive legal laws and rules than those imposed by an offshore bank account. They offer their customers protection against any kind of local political or financial stability and have a greater access to deposits.
The majority of offshore banks are located on island nations; some of these include Cyprus, Jersey, The Isle of Man and Bermuda. They can also however be found in other countries that are not islands, such as Luxembourg.
Once offshore banking was associated with illegal activities, laundering money, organized crime and tax evasion, however there are plenty of law abiding citizens’ who maintain an offshore bank account as individuals or for their international business.
Offshore banks have no legal responsibility to report income to other tax authorities as they are protected by bank secrecy. This doesn’t make the practice legal of course, if you have an income that you don’t declare to your own tax authorities then it is illegal and if they do become aware that you have this account you could be in some serious trouble.
Since 2001 there have been more demands for increased directives on global finance, especially those relating to offshore banks and tax havens, due to their reputation and the easier risks of illegal money flows.
Why do people choose to open a bank account offshore? Generally, the offshore banks will offer higher interest rates than those that are on offer by the banks in the clients own countries. This is possible as their overheads are considerably lower due to the location and the absence of any involvement by the government of the jurisdiction.
For residents of countries that are politically and economically unstable, putting their lifesavings in a bank account can be a risky action. Offshore bank accounts can provide a safe and reliable place to put their money with no fear that it will be reduced or even frozen and they subsequently lose everything.
There are few industries that a small island community can earn money from, many of them are popular tourist destinations and tourism is their main industry.

Offshore banking provides another industry they can take on and compete with other countries. Also it can provide a way of creating investment and growth in the economy of the country as well as helping to spread out the world’s finances to the developing world.
When an offshore bank pays interest most of the time tax is not deducted. This is a huge benefit for those who don’t pay tax on global income and those who don’t pay tax until the tax return is decided. It is also possible to set up an anonymous bank account in Cyprus or another jurisdiction, this option isn’t available with domestic banks. Higher rate loans based on the risk and investment opportunities are also more viable than anywhere else.
Supporters of offshore banking claim that creating competition in the tax and banking world is a benefit to the industry, as it permits people to select a suitable equilibrium of services and taxes. Those against offshore banking say that the competition puts the banks at a disadvantage, as governments in developed countries are forced to deregulate their banking systems in order to stop everyone turning to offshore banks for their financial needs.
There are disadvantages of offshore banking and the main one is that it is often related to tax fraud and organized crime. Although there are instances and once there was a time when the majority of people who used offshore banks might have been involved in these kinds of activities, now a large number of expatriate and international workers use and open offshore bank accounts.
Due to the location of many offshore banks it can be difficult to get information and access the bank, contact would be mostly by telephone or via email and this isn’t always proficient.

Accounts can easily be set up online and all business transactions handled online, which many people prefer. Those people who receive high incomes usually seek out the services of offshore banks as they tend to pay a higher rate of tax and having an account offshore can save them money.

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