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Most of the tax benefits for the high income range in the US come only with passive income streams not money you go out and work for day to day. The only real tax benefit for actively working for a high income is that payroll taxes are phased out at 90k. That is you pay no payroll taxes on income over 90k. That is a real sweet deal if you have a high income (over 250k). To get other big tax breaks in this country you basically have to have been born rich (inherited your money) or you have to have a high enough income for a long enough time to stash away a significant pot of money which will allow you at some point to live off your savings and not your work. For example if you were able to save $2,000,000 you could put that money in some sort of tax exempt investment fund (like government bonds) and live off the $120,000 in interest (assuming 6% average return) it generated per-year and owe no Federal Income taxes or Payroll taxes on the $120k.
Offshore is useless unless you plan to leave the U.S., renounce your U.S. citizenship and plan to never return. Read your last tax return and note the question about do you own any shares or any interest whatsoever in a foreign corporation. If you want the savings for offshore you are going to have to be willing to commit perjury on every U.S. tax return you file.
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