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If your Government is among few that tax worldwide income, hold your offshore assets in name of a tax haven corporation. And a tax haven corporation eliminates issues involving inheritance of your wealth. Consider how Swiss banks and insurance companies treated survivors of Holocaust after World War II as a useful historical lesson.
Your country is probably among majority of nations that actively try to discourage middle-class from moving their assets offshore. There are always ways around this policy. Even during height of Cultural Revolution tens of millions of middle-class dollars fled to Hong Kong from Mainland China. The two Rhodesian Governments attempted everything within their power to stop hemorrhaging of middle class wealth to Britain, before these countries became Zambia and Zimbabwe. Read a contemporary history of either country and you will learn that those who moved their wealth, be they black or white, are far better off today.
Methods vary on how to move money from countries with strong currency, or other restrictions, to banks in Europe or North America. The days of "Black Bag" courier are over. The costs for money moving services are usually eight percent of money moved. There are many crooks in Global Village. The client should know people involved in money moving service. Also, you are usually wiser moving smallest sum of money that money moving service will handle.
The stronger your Government's prohibitions against moving your money offshore, wiser it is to move your assets elsewhere. However, even in countries that are open to having their middle class globalize their assets, laws can quickly change. In 2001, United States replaced Bill of Rights with Patriot Act in six weeks.
About Author: William Cate has offered Globalize to Survive Workshop for over a decade to middle-class investors in many countries. He's Executive Director of Global Village Investment Club [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]. Since 1982, he's been Managing Director of Beowulf Investments [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/]
He has been the Managing Director of Beowulf Investments [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] since 1981 and is the Executive Director of the Global Village Investment Club [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]