The World's Best Tax Havens 2014/2015: How to Cut Your Taxes to Zero & Safeguard Your Financial Freedom Paperback – March 18, 2014

decent book. Thought it was text book size it was about 150pgs skimmed it in a few hours. Info is not much in depth but will make you ask more questions and get you deeper into things. Overall a good book would recommend for newbs.

You can't find a worse book than this.

Good book. Recommended reading for people interested in Offshore matters.

Great read!!!

Lee Haddam has assembled a book about saving money on taxes in that area of expertise most of us think is the purview of only the very wealthy. Tax havens are real and though the `world's best tax havens' are described in detail and the variations in the laws as far as residency requirements and banking practices of each may vary, the fundamentals are here for our edification. This, by the way, is an updated 2014-2015 edition of the book so the information is current and has withstood inspection!Hadnum spends adequate time explaining the concept of tax havens (`A tax haven is simply a country that allows you to reduce the amount of tax you pay. This is a tax haven at its most basic and, although pretty obvious, it's worth bearing in mind what their purpose is without getting bogged down in the details. Let's state at the beginning that there is nothing wrong with using tax havens provided you are careful not to break any rules in your country of residence.'), the risks and the safety nets alike, presents both corporate and individual uses of these advantages to reduce reportable income, how big companies and the rich use tax havens to lower their taxes and keep their wealth strictly private and protected from the outside world, and then goes into considerable detail about the tax havens he considers best. Some of these will surprise, others not: Andorra, Anguilla, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, The British Virgin Islands (BVI), Campione, The Cayman Islands, The Channel Islands, The Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Dubai, Eastern Europe, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Ireland, Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Panama, Seychelles, Singapore, St Kitts and Nevis, Switzerland, Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) - an expanded list from last year's report and every haven is discussed in detail.The second half of the book is more general informational for first-timers - and how many people actually know about how to legally avoid the new European Savings Tax Directive, how to set up and use offshore companies and trusts, the tremendous benefits of foundations when it comes to protecting privacy, recent G20 and OECD changes and more. Hadnum makes his presentation more credible by giving multiple examples of possible situations that makes the information personal and far more understandable.So if your income needs protection, this book supplies it in spades! It is readable, easy to understand (even for neophytes) and worth exploring. Grady Harp, April 14

i dont like this book. it is superficial, glossy, and not aimed at the standard needed for people who will be in the market for serious offshore planning. the book is repetitive tells you more about prices of property in off shore locales, and for technical information on 'how to' it gives the stupendous advice of "seek a tax specialist in your location". wonderful.you may be wondering why 2 stars; simply because he got off his ass and wrote something that might make him a few ££. the fact that it is a serious blip on any form of quality does not bother the author..as long as he makes his £.some may say, unfortunately, an entrepreneur in the truest, yet poorest, sense.ok i did write the above, and instead of deleting it and changing it, i would simply like to add the below as an edit. the book does what is on the title. it tells you about different tax havens. i guess it does not tell you how to go about getting into and getting the best out of these havens, but it does serve as a list and relevant living standards and costs in each place. if that's what your into, it gives you a good introduction.i feel this edit was necessary as i was looking for something a lot meatier with more information into the ins n outs of offshore planning. this books tells us everywhere to do that we need to seek professional advice. thing is not all of us, in fact not many of us have the money to seek this advice.cheers.

For a person without knowledge on this topic, this book may be usefull. For the others very few informations usefull.