Reasons for Going Offshore

	Because you still can. The more difficult that governments make it to move your financial affairs out of their view and control, the greater reason there is to do so. In the last few years the anti-offshore effort has intensified to a fever pitch. With reporting requirements, taxes and penalties all so high, are restrictions and outright prohibition close behind? History says yes.
	To help mitigate the impact of economic turmoil in your home country. The arrival of economic tumult – such as a depression or hyperinflation – inevitably heralds drops in (real) domestic asset values and restrictions on one’s ability to invest abroad. Economic turmoil is already here, but the worst is ahead. There is still time.
	To move assets out of reach of governments and arbitrary legal systems. Your assets can easily be confiscated with no warning and without due process. Defending yourself in a nominally legitimate legal controversy can be inordinately costly measured in time and money. If your assets are out of immediate reach you at least have time to act, and often it will save you from getting dragged into formal proceedings in the first place.
	To protect what is left of your disappearing privacy. Real-time physical and financial surveillance 7 days a week/24 hours a day is today’s operating standard. Moving some of your affairs outside of this system avails you of one of the few oases of privacy still remaining.
	It broadens your perspective. The world’s evolution is towards contantly greater interconnection. It is as easy to communicate with someone on the other side of the world as in the next town. Investors have been looking overseas for higher returns in increasing numbers. Actually locating your financial affairs overseas is your next step in the process.

We invite you to continue your investigation of the offshore world by reading through this site’s pages. Going Offshore: Is It For You? – available here – is a good starting point.