Many of our clients and colleagues
have asked us about the use of foreign bank accounts. We do
have many contacts in foreign countries and foreign tax havens.
United States Taxpayers are subject
to United States Income Tax on world wide income.
If the intention to set up a foreign
bank account to evade taxes. This is simply illegal and punishable
by fine or jail. It is also unnecessary, if you qualify for
the foreign income taxes exclusion you pays very little income
taxes at all. If you do not qualify for the foreign income
tax exclusion and you are a United States citizen, then the
amount of qualifying write offs will owner your income tax
liability so much that the amount of money saved in taxes by
cheating are more than out weighed by doing the right thing
and paying what we owe in taxes but only what we owe.