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Bottom line is.... if you are a resident of your home country, you are obliged to pay taxes applicable in that country.
Filtering money into some offshore account to avoid taxes is not a good idea :-)
If you live in either an offshore country or a country which has a geographically based tax system (ie.. a country which only taxes profits when they are generated within that country) - you can have as many legitimate bank accounts as ya can dream of.
For "onshore" people, yes it is possible to have "offshore" accounts, tho there are variations on tax rules, depending on your country of residence. For US people, this is a problem, for others, not so much a problem. Also... it's not just a matter of "opening a bank account" - usually some corporate structure is useful/necessary.
If it's just a bank account that is needed - any offshore bank will open an account, tho they will require full ID (genuine!!! *g*) and background information - this is standard practice.
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