Belize Offshore Companies

The following are examples of practical applications that offshore companies andindividuals may wish to consider. Apply the principles to yourself or your company and appreciate how Belize can help you.

Transfer Pricing

Transfer pricing, also known as profit upstreaming, is the strategy of moving profits from a high tax jurisdiction to a low or zero tax jurisdiction. What is required to achieve substantial tax saving is to interpose a low or zero tax jurisdiction company in between a transaction that would otherwise take place directly between two high tax jurisdictions. Transfer pricing is not illegal if correctly structured and implemented.

Copyrights, Licenses, Patents and Franchises

We frequently advise international family owned manufacturing companies on the
sale of copyrights, patents, license and franchise agreements usually for a single capital payment to an appropriately located offshore company often owned by an offshore discretionary trust. On acquisition of the rights, the offshore company then enters into contracts with licencees wishing to utilize the copyrights, patents, licences or franchises around the world. The income is thus accumulated free of tax in the offshore company.

Professional Services

We regularly assists artists, consultants, engineers, entertainers, professional athletes, and various professionals on entering into contracts with independent employment companies, incorporated in Belize, which sell their services outside the individual’s country of residence.

The offshore employment company does not pay tax on its earnings and payment to
the individual is structured in a way that minimises their tax liability.

Commodities

Belize can save its clients substantial sums of tax in a more complex transaction by use of an offshore structure for the purchase, for example, of diamonds by a Belize offshore company from a seller in Antwerp. The diamonds are then sent to India for polishing prior to export to the Belize company which subsequently sells them to distributors in North America. Most profits are thus retained tax-free.

As these examples illustrate, the offshore corporation structure is far
more more than merely a legal tax avoidance investment platform. It is
a multi-use structure that allows maximum application realizing maximum
savings. The practical applications we have listed are but only a few
of the many advantages that can be achieved when utilising an offshore
company to address global strategies for the sophisticated investor and
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