Offshore Services Guide

Many people who got interested in going offshore don’t know where to start. There is plenty of very informative websites on offshore services all over the Internet. In most cases they appear to be too packed with information and thus confusing and misleading a person who is not yet committed.

If you are new to using offshore instruments and can’t decide what to do and who to ask, go through our tiny guide to get started, talk to our consultants on every step where assistance is required and get your solution!

Offshore Company Formation

  1. Define your reasons for going offshore:

    • protection of your assets from claims, lawsuits, taxation
    • optimization of taxation on your business proceeds
    • increasing of your financial privacy and confidentiality with offshore banking
    • expanding your business freedom worldwide and enjoying less bureaucratic laws of another jurisdictions
    • securing yourself for the times of personal or governmental strife
    • state your own reason if not listed

  2. Choose a proper offshore instrument:

    • tax-free offshore company (International Business Company - IBC, tax-free non-resident company)
    • offshore insurance company (”captive” insurance company)
    • holding or investment company
    • offshore trust or foundation
    • shelf or vintage company
    • low-tax solution through incorporation in a high-tax jurisdiction

  3. Choose an offshore jurisdiction where to go:

    Anguilla, Belize, BVI, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominica, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Labuan, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, UAE, UK, USA

  4. Choose and contact your future offshore service procuring agency

  5. Choose a name for a legal entity to be incorporated and place an order with the procuring agency

  6. Prepare the required client’s ID documents

  7. Pay invoice to finalize incorporation of your own offshore company

Offshore Banking

  1. Define your requirements to the banker’s profile

  2. Choose a decent offshore bank from available options

  3. Get prepared the required client’s and company ID document and proceed with the account opening procedure

Extra Offshore Services

Consider using additional offshore instruments:

  • Merchant account
  • Brokerage account
  • Nominee service
  • Virtual office (phone answering, message and fax forwarding) and mail-forwarding services
  • Accounting and audit
  • Yacht (vessel) registration at shipping registries
  • Second citizenship and passport

Should you have not found the desired instrument or jurisdiction among the above listed please don’t hesitate to ask us.