Outcome: Regulatory Exemption
- Trading is pre-authorized AML & KYC
- Trading is tax law free
- Trading is securities law free
- Trades are tax free roll-up
- Trades are exempt from tax reporting
- Trades are excluded from tax liability
- Account withdrawals in cash can be subject to capital gains tax
Operational trading with regulatory exemption.
How your operational trading, with regulatory exemption, would occur within the retirement
plan or a part of a network is detailed after the Letter of Engagement and Fee Invoice are
completed.
Background reasons registered security or exempted from registration is crucial:
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has defined who can have liability in an
unregistered offer of securities that is not exempted: "Those who have a necessary role in
the transaction are held liable as participants".
So, for example, it will be illegal for a broker,
dealer, or exchange to effect any transaction in a token which is a security unless the
offering and sale of the security and the relevant exchange it is traded on are either
registered or exempted from registration.
The SEC position of interest to all proponents of a token sale:
"The touchstone of an investment contract [Note: an investment contract is a kind of
security, and the SEC concluded that The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
was an example of an investment contract] is the presence of an investment in a common
venture premised upon a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the
entrepreneurial or managerial efforts of others."
Regulatory focus on ICO's:
There is increased regulatory focus on ICOs. Just to recap in very basic terms – the
regulations we are dealing with differ between the various jurisdictions, but all are directed
at the same policy objectives, namely investor protection from abuses that were rampant
around the world before regulation was introduced.
Globally recognized government regulated, registered occupational retirement law is exempt
from insurance and securities regulations, thus eliminating additional capital raising costs,
while providing added tax benefits to your clients. Your investors will not be subjected to
taxation within this Clean Nominee Bank Account structure.
This represents the ability to seamlessly invest and trade capital offshore through a prequalified
deemed compliant KYC & AML retirement Trust that is approved secret and private
by Governments. Clients can enjoy the benefit of accruing value tax-free and ultimately
distributing the income to the member on a tax-exempt basis in many jurisdictions.
Occupational retirement laws innovative solution enables issuer's to have a legal vehicle for
their existing or new investment products. The investment products can range anywhere
from cryptocurrency, real estate acquisitions, developments, forex, equities, mutual funds
to commodities.
This is tax and reporting compliance that Governments enforce because they recognize it is
excluded from financial reporting and an exempt beneficiary account.
Appointing an offshore management company to provide investment services increases tax
compliance risk
Imagine a scenario in which a Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager establishes and
appoints an offshore management company to provide investment management services
for its fund. On one hand, the fund’s structure ensures a clear operational base. But at
another level, key governance procedures are often neglected and tax compliance is
at risk.
An offshore company comes at a steep price and exposes the fund manager to tax liabilities
in the manager’s onshore jurisdiction. This is especially true in today’s environment, in which
regulators and tax authorities everywhere are taking a closer look at the substance of
offshore management companies by means of government foreign financial account
exchange of information agreements.
It is imperative to get the tax compliance substance right.
Not addressing the corporate governance and operations of the offshore management
company is a far riskier proposal today than it ever was. Governments around the world are
casting their tax nets far and wide, it’s an opportune time for fund managers to carefully
assess their offshore structures and ensure that there is substance to them and not a mere
shell.
How to mitigate tax compliance risk
So, how does a Hong Kong investment manager minimize exposure to tax risk? Merely
setting up a fund manager in an offshore jurisdiction such as the Cayman Islands is not a
sufficient structure to ensure tax compliance and increases the risk. Regulators have
highlighted the risk of that approach.
First, ongoing questions from tax authorities point to concerns about central management
and control issues regarding the fund, as well as the need to properly demonstrate that
there is real substance to the offshore business structure.
By substance, we mean maintaining a proper operational structure that keeps the fund
manager’s operations outside of the tax framework of the onshore entity. In other words, the
offshore structure should be a government regulated, registered and recognized entity that
meets compliance requirements and avoids tax liabilities.
Cryptocurrency trading is a registered security or exempted from registration:
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has defined who can have liability in an
unregistered offer of securities that is not exempted:
"Those who have a necessary role in the transaction are held liable as participants". So, for
example, it will be illegal for a broker, dealer, or exchange to effect any transaction in a
token which is a security unless the offering and sale of the security and the relevant
exchange it is traded on are either registered or exempted from registration.
The SEC’s final word:
"Those who offer and sell securities in the United States must comply with the federal
securities laws, including the requirement to register with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) or to qualify for an exemption from the registration requirements of the
federal securities laws.''
''These requirements apply to those who offer and sell securities in the United States,
regardless whether the issuing entity is a traditional company or a decentralized
autonomous organization, regardless whether those securities are purchased using U.S.
dollars or virtual currencies, and regardless whether they are distributed in certificated form
or through distributed ledger technology.
Register as a national securities exchange or operate pursuant to an exemption from
registration.
[Note: blockchain is a particular type of distributed ledger technology (DLT)]. In addition, any
entity or person engaging in the activities of an exchange, such as bringing together the
orders for securities of multiple buyers and sellers using established nondiscretionary
methods under which such orders interact with each other and buyers and sellers entering
such orders agree upon the terms of the trade, must register as a national securities
exchange or operate pursuant to an exemption from such registration."
Invest Offshore Solution:
The Clean Nominee Bank Account is not a tax haven, insurance product, company or a
personal trust. International recognition is carved out under the Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act (FATCA), carved out under Common Reporting Standard (CRS), Automatic
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