Vernon Jacobs

Vernon K. Jacobs, CPA
Offshore Tax Help


How to venture offshore without getting into trouble with the IRS.
   
 
There are six primary reasons why most U.S. citizens and permanent residents venture offshore.
Each of these reasons will result in different tax complications and/or some tax saving opportunities.

Some (perhaps many) taxpayers who venture offshore choose to ignore the convoluted and complex U.S. tax laws that apply to foreign investments, businesses or residence. If that's your choice, then I can't help you and neither can any other U.S. tax professional.

But if you (or your clients) need help in complying with the U.S. tax rules for offshore investments, employment, asset protection or business operations, there are four ways that I can help you.
  • You can buy one of more of the varous books and reports I have written or have co-authored with other international tax professionals.
  • I respond to two or three questions about asset protection and taxes each week in The Jacobs Report.  It's Free.
  • If you may want more than a couple of my books or reports, a less expensive alternative is to subscribe to my online reference library and the International Wealth Protection News Monitor that I write twice monthly. 
  • If you need some clarification about some aspect of international tax law or asset protection but are not seeking professional advice, I offer a phone consultation service. which includes a free subscription to my online reference library and newsletter.
I am no longer preparing international tax information returns, but I know a number of well qualifed colleagues to whom I can refer you to  prepare returns for foreign entities. At the present time, I'm limiting my work to consulting, teaching and writing -- mostly about international tax law.

If you are a tax attorney or CPA who has a client that is involved in some offshore entity such as a foreign trust, an IBC, foreign corporation, foreign partnership or LLC, I'm available for research assistance or consultations in international tax matters. If I don't already know the answer to your question, I can probably find it faster than you can. Or I can refer you to someone who is more experienced with the subject matter.

If you have failed to file some of the returns required by the IRS for offshore transactions or for foreign financial accounts, you should seriously consider hiring an attorney before you contact an accountant. Here is contact information for some tax defense attorneys. 

Vernon K. Jacobs
Certified Public Accountant

P.S. If you need an experienced speaker for a conference or seminar, I can explain a broad range of international tax topics in plain English. If I really like the location, I only require reimbursement for travel and lodging. But if your program isn't at a 5 star resort with an ocean view, I will require a reasonable fee in addition to my  travel and lodging  costs.


Contact Information: Vernon K. Jacobs,
PO Box 8137, Prairie Village, KS 66208
Phone (913) 362-9667  Fax (913) 432-7174.
Send Email to jacobs@offshorepress.com


   
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Food for Thought

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what would otherwise be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. (Supreme Court Justice Sutherland, 1935)


The essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government. (Unknown)

Hardly any of my clients regard themselves as wealthy. But few of them will avoid being labeled as such by those who seek "redistributive change". (Vern Jacobs)

"If not us, then who: if not now, then when?" (Ronald Reagan)

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."  (Attributed to Edmund Burke)

No one is above the law...except for the lawmakers who scoff at their own laws. (Unknown)

Most of the major religions of the world that ask their members to tithe only ask for 10% of their member's income. If God only needs 10%, why does the government need 50%? (Vern Jacobs)


The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. (Margaret Thatcher)

Inflation is a tax on property and the capital gains tax is imposed on inflationary gains. (Vern Jacobs)

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."  (Thomas Jefferson)

The only people I've ever met who would like to pay more taxes are those who aren't making any money. (Vern Jacobs)


It seems that anyone with an agenda of aggressive government meddling can always tell you the solution to the problem ... always seems to involve more government meddling. (Matthew Collins, The A-Letter)

When the government talks about tax "reform" it's time to get a better grip on your wallet. (Vern Jacobs)

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amounts of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing." (Jean Baptiste Colbert)

The only effective way to eliminate tax loopholes is to eliminate politicians. (Vern Jacobs)

The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the government but doesn't have to take a civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan


You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once (Robert Heinlein)

"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in a sorry state as are the souls who live under tyranny." - (Thomas Jefferson)

"The government cannot give anything to anyone that they have not first taken away from someone else." (Unknown)

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." (Reagan Inaugural Address January 20, 1981)

"Why do those who pay no income taxes have the right to impose higher taxes on those do pay income taxes?" (Vernon Jacobs)

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." (Winston Churchill)

"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union

I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States.  The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half of the money. - Arthur Godfrey

"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus 

"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown


"The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution...if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." (Thomas Jefferson)

A fine is a tax for doing wrong.  A tax is a fine for doing something right. (Unknown)
 
“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.” (Richard Lamm, Former Governor of Colorado) 

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There is something fundamentally wrong when so many experts are so profitably employed at protecting our sovereign citizens from our civil servants. (vern Jacobs)


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