Key Advantages at a glance:

• Tax Planning

• Achievement of financial privacy

• Asset Protection

• Avoidance of currency, capital and exchange controls

• Use of the offshore company as a vehicle in estate planning

• Raising capital through the sale of stock

• Reducing real estate transaction costs

OFFSHORE ADVANTAGES

WHY GO OFFSHORE IN ST. LUCIA?

The benefits of going offshore are numerous, as you can see below:

Tax Planning

There are considerable tax savings in onshore territory. Although there is in the United States the legal requirement to report holdings of 10% or more in offshore companies to the local tax authorities, no matter how restrictive these rules may be greater tax savings may be achieved by the use of an offshore company rather than a company incorporated in one's country of residence;

Achievement of financial privacy

In St. Lucia, it is an offence punishable by fine or imprisonment for a bank or trust officer to divulge personal details about a customer without his express permission. At any rate the affairs of an offshore company can only be enquired into where its principal is found guilty of a criminal offence in his country of residence and that offence is an offence for which he would have been criminally liable in the offshore jurisdiction had the same been committed there.

Asset Protection

As a shield against harassment or vengeful lawsuits. Having your assets in an offshore company almost always makes its principal a more difficult target for a lawsuit and this is especially true if the shares in the offshore company have been placed in a trust. Four things are accomplished:

1. The price of any assault on your assets is raised as the adversary is forced to sue in both the onshore and offshore jurisdictions which may be time consuming and costly, thereby reducing his eagerness to sue,

2. Most often than not the offshore jurisdiction creates an environment less friendly to harassment and frivolous lawsuits and may reduce the litigant's chances of success

3. The lowering of your profile. Corporate tax returns, credit reports and other financial information may be readily available to the prospective claimant onshore, however the layers of financial privacy in the offshore jurisdiction, the value of the offshore corporation- or even that it exists - will not be easy to obtain.

4. Minimization of inflation, currency and political and economic risks by way of currency diversification - As many of the banks in these jurisdictions allow for multi- currency accounts and transactions a company may have any account that it wants to have and in any currency.

Avoidance of currency, capital and exchange controls

This allows free movement of money across national borders - Establishing a network of offshore bank accounts owned by an IBC will create an international financial infrastructure capable of moving funds in any currency anywhere in the world. Any exchange control regime imposed in the home country will thereby be circumvented;

Use of the offshore company as a vehicle in estate planning

This provides a source of income for the beneficiaries or successors -in- title upon the demise of the principal of the IBC;

Raising capital through the sale of stock

The regulations governing this kind of transaction tend to be less burdensome in the offshore jurisdiction;

Reducing real estate transaction costs

As offshore companies can own real estate, should it decide to part with ownership in same, upon a closing it can avoid registration fees, stamp duties and notary fees by transferring the shares in the corporation as opposed to title itself.

We present this jurisdiction as a premier jurisdiction more particularly so as it possesses those qualities that good jurisdictions should possess, those qualities being:

• No or low tax

• Political and economic stability

• Absence of exchange controls, currency controls or capital controls

• Absence of tax treaties

• A welcoming governmental attitude

• Modern incorporation laws

• Simple incorporation procedures

• Excellent communications and transportation

• Good banking and professional services

• An English Common Law System

• English as the language of choice

• Strict secrecy and confidentiality codes

• Minimum corporate disclosure requirements

• A desired geographical location