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Transaction Structuring
Hard earned perspective on positioning vis-a-vis taxes and asset protection.
Across the internet you will find, or all ready have found claims of how international investment in real estate can be structured in a way to provide you with a benefit that includes zero tax at home and almost complete asset protection. Several years ago, we investigated these claims and the structures underlying these claims.
During our investigation, what we discovered is that these strategies depend almost entirely upon the “secrecy” (as opposed to privacy) a foreign jurisdiction provides an investor from the home nations courts and taxing authorities.
Aside from ethical concerns with these strategies, there are increasing practical realities that home taxing nations have made it their highest priority to pierce the privacy of tax havens and begin assessing penalties and even criminal penalties upon those whose off-shore investment strategy has been one that included avoiding all tax at home.
Distinction between tax-avoidance strategies and asset protection strategies
Comply from a tax standpoint; plan from an asset protection standpoint.
Home nations give their taxing authorities the power to completely ignore and look through structures and arrangements which purport to separate a beneficial owner from the income generated by investments related to that individual for tax purposes.
However, home nations have commonly not been involved in ignoring foreign structures that assist an individual in protecting their assets from civil suits and other civil seizures.
We believe that in the current environment, adopting an off-shore investment strategy that includes techniques and structures to completely avoid at-home tax involves risking personal disaster. However, we believe that asset protection and tax minimization strategies remain strong options for the off-shore investor.
Therefore, we have aligned ourselves with professionals in off-shore nations and in the USA that take a conservative position on tax and yet are open to facilitating asset protection with the assistance of off-shore entities.
We are happy to share our perspectives and findings on this topic with you.
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Privacy Policy
Emerging Terrains
Our postal address is
Suite 2302, 50th ST, New Global Tower
Panama, Republic of Panama
We can be reached via e-mail at info@emergingterrains.com
or you can reach us by telephone at 888-436-7198
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The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web page, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site, disclosed when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Website and applicable laws or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Website.
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Strategy
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Strategy
Clearly, investing in raw land in emerging markets requires a rare and unique combination of qualities in the entrepreneurs participating in the enterprise. Generally, the Third World entrepreneur must have professional boardroom experience, be a hearty adventurer, and have a high degree of cultural adaptability.
Primarily, we succeed in acquiring and managing emerging market real estate because we’re actually here on the ground in the Third World nation. Secondly, we enjoy the rare characteristics needed to be successful on the ground locating and securing raw land real estate opportunities in a Third World nation.
We invest in raw land in emerging markets. Since this is our business cornerstone, managing our business activities focuses on two areas:
- We’ve adopted a strategy in managing the acquisition of raw land in often remote areas of opportunity.
- We’ve adopted a strategy in maintaining our interest in the property pending resale of the raw land.
Impact of Current Economic Realities
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Impact of Current Economic Realities
Today’s global economic environment seems to change by the day. Prudent investment requires a constant analysis. It also needs frequent re-evaluation of the markets for investment participation, as well as re-evaluation of the investments and the exit strategy for each one.
In this section we share some of our views of the current macroeconomic trends and how they affect our investment strategy. This section will be updated from time to time.
Are There Markets Relatively Isolated from the Global Economic Storm?
We believe that investors money is necessarily held on planet earth. We believe that some emerging markets are relatively safer places on the planet to hold assets during the present economic storm. They also provide better opportunities.
What About the Crash?
It’s two years later, and real estate values have tumbled in the USA. Is there real estate opportunity there? Yes. But we don’t want to invest in the USA economy until it has stabilized. Also, we like some of the more traditional attractions many have discovered investing outside the United States.
For example, many people have found it attractive from an asset protection standpoint to move some assets offshore. Given the present economic situation in the First World, this reason for locating assets overseas has become even more compelling.
The World is Ever Flatter
We are here in Panama. We are finding that the world economy is creating services that normalize investing globally. This is particularly true in Panama. Panama’s professionals are poised to assist our investors in establishing a global investment base. We are poised to assist our investors in permanently involving themselves in global investment opportunities abroad from a Panamanian base.
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Transaction Structuring
Hard earned perspective on positioning vis-a-vis taxes and asset protection
Across the internet you will find, or may already have found claims of how international investment in real estate can be structured in a way that gives you benefits that include zero tax at home and almost complete asset protection. Several years ago, we investigated these claims and the structures underlying them.
During our investigation, we discovered these strategies depend almost entirely upon the “secrecy” (as opposed to privacy) a foreign jurisdiction provides an investor from the home nations courts and taxing authorities.
Aside from ethical concerns with these strategies, there are increasing practical realities. Home taxing nations have made it their highest priority to pierce the privacy of tax havens and begin imposing sanctions and even criminal penalties on those whose offshore investment strategy has been one that includes avoiding all tax at home.
Distinction between tax-avoidance strategies and asset protection strategies
Comply from a tax standpoint; plan from an asset protection standpoint
Home nations give their taxing authorities tremendous power. This power lets them completely ignore and look through structures and arrangements that separate a beneficial owner from the income generated by investments related to that individual for tax purposes.
However, home nations have commonly not been involved in ignoring foreign structures that assist an individual in protecting their assets from civil suits and other civil seizures.
We believe that in the current environment, adopting an offshore investment strategy that includes techniques and structures to completely avoid at-home tax risks personal disaster. However, we believe that asset protection and tax minimization strategies remain strong options for the offshore investor.
Therefore, we have aligned ourselves with professionals in offshore nations and in the USA that take a conservative position on tax and yet are open to facilitating asset protection with the assistance of offshore entities.
We are happy to share our perspectives and findings on this topic with you.
Scouting Opportunity
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Characteristics of an Emerging Market Investment Facilitator
Barriers to finding emerging market real estate are high. Traveling to the areas where there are opportunities are often involves unique challenges. These run the gamut from stress related problems to cultural differences as fundamental as the inability to converse with another person, to experiencing the risk of death from disease or poisonous animals.
We’re not saying the areas we go are not relatively safe to the natives but due to our immunological differences, and lack of savvy in how to live in remote places, the foreign First World investor takes a personal risk when attempting to do business in a foreign nation.
From the Board Room to the Jungle
An opportunity builder in emerging markets must possess a rare and eclectic group of talents. This person must have experience and comfort in the 50th floor boardroom: be at ease discussing technology in the server room with the tech people on the third floor and be able to converse and sleep with a team of tough foreign laborers or scouts in the jungle. We almost don’t exist as a business person demographic.
You have to like it –and not many do. We sleep in remote, risky places. We regularly get ill or suffer minor injuries. We love it. We’re successful in this type of venture because few would take on what’s required to find the opportunities. That’s our opportunity. We enjoy being here because of the adventure.
ETI is successful for a number of reasons –an important one of these is that there are few people able or willing to do what we do. We don’t see “traditional” business people developing emerging market opportunities. As we meet and get to know our contemporaries in business –the others having come to Panama to develop investments for First World investors -they are, as a group, frontier-types: quick-witted, tough, independent, extremely flexible and creative. When we’re investigating opportunities, we hang out with leather-skinned missionaries, Peace Corps workers, and local scouts.
Our Opportunity
Our biggest economic opportunity is we’re developing business where few are willing to go. We love creating opportunity in this environment. Knowing that not many others would, we have found a financially powerful niche opportunity.
Emerging Market Facilitator
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Characteristics of an Emerging Market Investment Facilitator
Barriers to finding emerging market real estate are high. Traveling to areas such as Panama, Central America, where the opportunities are often involve unique challenges running the gamut from stress related to cultural differences as fundamental as the inability to converse with another person to enjoying the risk of death from disease or poisonous animal.
We’re not saying the areas we go are not relatively safe to the natives, but, due to our immunological differences, and lack of savvy in how to live in remote places, the foreign first-world investor takes on personal risk when attempting to do business in a foreign nation.
From the Board Room to the Jungle
An opportunity builder in emerging markets must possess a rare and eclectic group of talents. This person must have experience and comfort in the 50th floor board room, at ease discussing technology server-stack room with the tech people on the third-floor, conversing and sleeping with a team of tough foreign laborers or scouts in the jungle. We almost don’t exist as a business-person demographic.
You have to like it –and not many do. We sleep in remote, risky places. We regularly get ill or suffer minor injuries. We love it. We’re successful in this type of venture because few would take on what’s required to find the opportunities. That’s our opportunity. We enjoy being here because of the adventure.
ETI is successful for a number of reasons –an important one of these is because there are few people are able or willing to do what we do. We don’t see “traditional” business people developing emerging market opportunities.
As we meet and get to know our contemporaries in business –the others having come to Panama to develop investments for first-world investors, they are, as a group fronteir-types: quick-witted, tough, independent, extremely flexible and creative.
When we’re investigating opportunities, we hang out with leather-skinned missionaries, Peace Corps workers, local scouts.
Our biggest economic opportunity is that we’re developing business where few are willing to go –we love creating opportunity in this environment, and knowing not many others would; we have a financially powerful niche opportunity.
Why We Moved
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Why We Moved Our Investment
From the USA to Panama.
We at ETI have extensive experience creating and managing real estate opportunities in the United States of America. Nonetheless, several years ago we became wary investing in United States real estate; at the same time we became very attracted to investing in real estate in emerging economies.
We were excited as we discovered lucrative opportunities in Panama. We found that we loved the challenges and rewards of investing in this market. After some analysis, we moved our investment portfolio to Panama.
Our reasons for the move are detailed in this site.