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A National Interest Solution to the EB-5 Legislation Impasse

A long term extension of the regional center EB-5 program failed to pass Congress in 2015 mostly because of intractable differences between rural and urban interests. Various proposals were floated seeking to incentivize rural investments and discourage urban investments by providing a reduced investment amount based on various artificial configurations of census tracts. In the […]

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A National Interest Solution to the EB-5 Legislation Impasse

A long term extension of the regional center EB-5 program failed to pass Congress in 2015 mostly because of intractable differences between rural and urban interests. Various proposals were floated seeking to incentivize rural investments and discourage urban investments by providing a reduced investment amount based on various artificial configurations of census tracts. In the […]

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Financial and fiscal transparency – The battle for ‘financial privacy’ is a long agony

In recent years, many countries signed an agreement with the United States, known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. This enables automatic reporting to the US tax authorities of financial data of any Americans with bank accounts in their territory, such as income from savings. These agreements inspired the OECD and the G20 to […]

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Malaysia’s My Second Home Program – an attractive alternative for wealthy Asian individuals and their families?

While the concept of residence planning for wealthy individuals is not new, the motives behind such considerations are continually evolving, particularly in Asia. There are various reasons why wealthy individuals may consider relocating. These reasons include quality of life, security, education and most notably tax planning. Traditionally, and amongst Europeans in particular, the only way […]

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