The Lesperance Letter
The Lesperance Letter contains opinion pieces by our founder and principal David Lesperance on the issues of wealth preservation, international tax planning and more…
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Back Up Plan for Brazilian Family: A Case Study
A changing political climate and increased domestic danger caused a client to seek out a Back-Up...
Disadvantages of taxing the rich in the UK: How the exodus of Britain’s wealthy spells trouble for the rest of the country
The populist 'Tax the Rich' movement has gained momentum in recent years. The current opposition...
Seven Ways Golden Geese self-sabotage their own Back-Up Plans: Ignoring the risk and choosing the wrong destination
In almost three decades of assisting Golden Geese (aka High Net Worth individuals) with their...
Seven Ways Golden Geese self-sabotage their own Back-Up Plans: The importance of the right advice on second citizenship, and false economies
In our second in a series of blogs examining how Golden Geese can self sabotage their back up...
Back Up Plans for Golden Geese – seven ways you can self-sabotage: Wasting Time and Complicating Communication
In almost three decades of assisting Golden Geese (aka High Net Worth individuals) with their...
Now is the time for America’s top 1% to start preparing their Back-Up Plans
It’s November 4th, 2020 and you are waking up to the results of the previous day’s US elections. From the vantage point of early 2019, the news could very well be a new Democratic POTUS and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress.
Calexit: Should California threaten to Secede … or just Silicon Valley’s Golden Geese?
Pishevar said “It’s the most patriotic thing I can do. The country is [at] a serious crossroads.” His hope is that California, as the sixth-largest economy in the world in terms of GDP, might become a catalyst for a “national dialogue” as the country reaches a “tipping point. In short, he and others
Could the loss of carried interest double your tax bill?
Carried Interest has moved from being an obscure tax term to being one of the few policy issues to...
EB-5 Visa Program: First of Four Steps to Certain Economic Devastation for Wealthy Chinese
Well, 2015 was another banner year for the US EB-5 Visa Program. The quota was filled in record time with approximately 90% of the applicants being wealthy Mainland Chinese, aka ‘Golden Geese’. In the last week, there have been high profile articles in the…