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1.- Principally you must to know who you are working with. As a future customer you must be able to your offshore provider ask for questions as:
And basics matters as: you will hire an attorney, an accountancy or only administrative employees? You must to know where and who has licensed the offshore provider and if their members have a professional liability insurance. If a offshore provider is not able to have a telephone number, fax or a local office to serve the customers you must not trustthem. An open Web-site allways isn´t sinonymous of Company. 2.- You must ask for an estimate and costs of the services for advance.
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3.- You must think about fees that usually aren’t in “packages”. When you incorporate offshore, the company must pay annual administrative fees or country taxes or both of them. And that rule it´s actually in every country. An offshore account, may be is untaxed but usually have maintenance fees. When you close the account, you must pay fees too. Some offshore countries have obligated accountancy (and obviously, fees). 4.- Be careful with taxes!! You should to know that the commercial earnings are taxable wherever you were if you have any onshore connection (personal, property etc.) with the offshore corporate. At that point you must be able to manage the company and you must decide the level of privacy. High level of privacy means high costs and higher confidence in your offshore providers. 5.- Prestigious e-commerce work through legal corporations. If you start trading on line you must be serious with your business, if you are trading as a particular you must to know the risks. 6.- Offshore merchants accounts usually have high costs. We recommend reputable international banks if you like peace of mind. Really you think that opening an account in low profile country or financial corporation will get an high level of safety? or will be better try to open an account in a current offshore branch of a first class international bank or in a relevant jurisdiction? 7.- If you don’t understand the structure that an offshore provider is offering to you, refuse it. Unless you were an international holding group or high turnover, you needn’t complicated structures, may be a Limited Company and a pair of offshore accounts are enough for you. 8.- Very important for properties purchases: you must to know if the country have a Property Register or Real Estate Register. You must to sign any legal documents in the presence of a Public Notary and an attorney, and if you make powers of attorney you must take all references of your representative. Obviously they will assure you the property is free of charges. 9.- For finally you offshore providers must advice too about your local taxes. It's essentially for you in order to know some offshore structures or make reinvestments. Everybody knows for example British Virgin Islands foreign companies are tax exempt but anybody knows if you rent in Spain 10 or more properties under a corporate business only the 15% of the profits could be taxed. 10.- Usefull information, about taxes, offshore and banking information: Offshore magazines:
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