Tax Savings From Offshore Factoring Increase Business Revenue
January 5, 2010 | In: Tax Saving
How often do you find yourself buying things at the end of the year that you really don’t need because you’d rather not give your money to the tax man?
What if there was a way to virtually CONTROL how much you paid in taxes each year…WITHOUT spending money on things you don’t need.
Non-Recourse Factoring is one of the more powerful, yet simplistic strategies you can implement to get tax savings and asset protection for your small to medium sized company that rivals that of the large multi-national corporations.
What’s “Non-recourse Factoring”?
Well, factoring is a commonly employed business solution for a company that needs short term liquidity, or would like to accelerate its cash flow. Factoring involves a company that has extended credit, often in the form of vendor financing to customers, selling this accounts receivable in return for cash.
Because of the time before collection of the outstanding debts can be finalized and the uncertainty of collecting on the accounts receivable, the company’s a/r will be discounted by some “factor”. Depending on the credit history, industry, time to collection etc., discounts on the accounts receivable can run between 10%, to over half the eventual possible receivable(s).
“Non-recourse” means that the purchaser of the receivable cannot attempt to collect from the original holder of the receivable if the debt becomes uncollectible in the future.
Here’s How “Non-Recourse Factoring” Can Virtually Eliminate Your Tax Bill
In order to illustrate the specifics of how this works and what it can do for you, I’ll use a hypothetical case study using a fictional character named Dr. Rico.
Dr. Rico has his own medical practice. He is worried about having his assets exposed to frivolous litigation. Many of his friends have shut down their private practices because of the cost of malpractice insurance….but he really has a passion for helping people and doesn’t want to quit.
What does Dr. Rico do?
1) He sets up an offshore structure.
2) He transfers some post tax funds to the offshore structure. The offshore structure will take on the role of the ‘factor’.
3) He sells his accounts receivable to the offshore structure at a discounted priced. Non-recourse factoring (where the factor takes on the risks of your clients not paying) discounts depend on the market rate but in many places can be as high as 70%. So let’s say the Doctor sells his accounts receivable to his offshore structure for 30% of their value.
4) He then ONLY pays tax on that 30%. The rest is collected by the offshore structure tax-free.
5) The doctor’s practice continues to collect payments from the accounts receivable, and remits these on to the offshore factor.
Not only is he shaving his tax bill down to a husk of its former self, he’s also protecting the tax-free money that he’s earned. If somewhere down the line he is brought to court by a patient or faces financial difficulties, that offshore nest egg is going to be incredibly hard to attack. The saved cash can then just sit offshore gathering interest, or be invested elsewhere – tax free.
The most complex part of this deal is setting up the offshore structure, but there are people at hand who can help you with that and talk you through the whole process.
Capital Conservator has a decade of experience helping people to unlock wealth by moving their assets offshore. If you think you can benefit from offshore factoring, then get started with your offshore account right way! For more information on how to set up an offshore structure email me at pwinters@capitalconservator.com, and we can arrange for you a personal consultation free of charge.
Patrick Winters is an offshore banking consultant based in Uruguay, South America. He writes and advises for offshore banking house Capital Conservator. The Capital Conservator Group has more than a decade of experience helping people to transfer and protect their assets offshore.
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