If you know of a resource that you think would be of value to those who visit this site, please let us know via email and, if pertinent and appropriate, we will include it on this page.

• Here is the U.S. State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs Home Page.

• Here is a U.S. State Department site containing information on the Judicial Systems of more than 50 nations.

• Here is a compilation of thumbnail descriptions and visitor entry requirements for a number of countries. Click below on the 1st letter of the country you're looking for. The list will continue to expand. If you have a particular country you're interested in, please let us know via email.
  

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• Currency to Go - Chase Manhattan Bank sells over 75 foreign currencies and travelers' checks with no fee or commission. Next day delivery service is available.
• Several types of Currency Converters - Find out how much your money is worth in other countries.
• Another Currency Converter - This one enables you to determine the rate of exchange between any two world currencies.

• Here is a site from China where you can order Books on Chinese Law in English regarding various Chinese trade topics. You will also find email addresses on the site, from whence you can obtain further information.
• Goldhaven offers reviews of offshore and asset protection books. Thanks to Matt Blackman's Web site, a regular critic of offshore books.
• The Financial Crime Bookshop - Under construction -- due to open in January 2000.

• Draft Agreement Establishing the Caribbean Court of Justice is available at the CARICOM web site.
• Here are two sites which provide coverage that includes several decades of U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals court cases, and in some cases, over a hundred years of state court cases: http://www.jurisline.com and http://www.loislaw.com.
• Guide to Foreign and International Law, Update 4
• Update to Guide to International Trade Law Resources on the Internet
• LLRX Resource Center - Foreign & International Law
• A large site with many links to various legal topics.
• Insolvency and Bankruptcy - from the Australasian Legal Information Institute.
• Secured Transactions - from the Australasian Legal Information Institute.
• Emory Law Library - Electronic Reference Desk.
• Full-Text Laws, Regulations, Cases, Treaties - from University of Arkansas.
• American Immigration Lawyers Association - Numerous links to immigration Web sites. Also, here's another large collection of links from AILA.
• Tax Division - Represents the U.S. and its officers in all civil and criminal litigation arising under the internal revenue laws, other than proceedings in the U.S. Tax Court.
• Immigration Law on the Web.
• Immigration, Asylum and Refugee Law - Numerous links to pages on this topic.
• Tax Law Information - Links to pages on various tax law topics.
• Global e-Commerce Law - This site tracks the rapidly changing legal developments critical to doing business in the global electronic marketplace.

• Office of the International Companies (Offshore) from Anjouan.
• The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc has a subsidiary called Tax Management Inc. that writes tax laws for the USA. New and current laws are in booklet form, CD-ROM, software is featured on their web site. Click here.
• An excellent tax protestor refutation site for those considering becoming a U.S. tax protestor can be found at Tax Protestor FAQ.
• The IRS will be pursuing the elimination of “non-business valuation discounts” even harder this year, since in 1999, the Service has lost a couple of big valuation cases in tax court. There is no better source for information of this type than the free newsletters regularly published by Steve Leimburg at www.leimberg.com.
• Here you'll find "advance" copies of IRS to-be-published Revenue Rulings., Revenue. Procs., etc.
• Go to this site, click on "Professional Projects" and then click on the link to the Unofficial Tax Court Home Page, which contains a link to the official page where recent Tax Court opinions can be found.
• At the Website of Rowbotham & Company LLP you will find an extensive collection of international tax articles.
• Respected San Francisco tax attorney Bob Sommers provides an excellent Web site addressing many topics including offshore scam trusts at www.taxprophet.com/hot/Trustscam.htm
• Here are a number of Readings in International Tax Policy from Tax Analysts Online.

• The FINANCIAL TIMES (London) provides Internet access to excellent "country surveys". They address financial and economic matters in various countries. Registration, for now, is free. (Later, we suspect, they will impose a fee).

  Visit the main site here. Here are the most recent sample Links:

  Bermuda
  Mexico
  Canada

• CANA On-Line - The official web site of the Caribbean News Agency (CANA).
• The International Herald Tribune - The world's daily newspaper.
• BBC World Service - Breaking headlines and links to news around the globe.
• Slate - Today's papers.
• The Bermuda Royal Gazette.
• The Bermuda Sun.

• Bermuda online incorporations. Local law firm Appleby Spurling & Kempe has launched a new 24-hour, online service to allow new incorporations. The scheme is called JustAS&K and will allow either existing clients or new ones to start the process of setting up an exempted company on the island. For complete information go to www.justaskinc.bm.
• Monaco Sites:
  • CIA World Fact Book
  • Government of Monaco - New York Office
  • Visit Europe - Monaco Page
• The advantages of incorporating in Nevada are listed on the Website of the Nevada Secretary of State.
• The Republic of Panama - here are some resources:
  • Trust Services SA. Licensed and supervised by the Superintendency of Banks in Panama since 1981, this respected firm specializes in offshore corporations and trust formation, providing every sort of service to professional firms and private individuals. Contact: Derek R. Sambrook. PO Box 6-3685, Estafeta El Dorado, Panama, Republic of Panama, Tel: (507)269-2438 or (507) 263-5252. Fax: (507)269-4922. marketing@trusterv.com.
  • National Bank of Panama (Banco Internacional de Panama), P.O. Box 11181, Panama 6, Republic of Panama. Call: (507) 263-9000, Fax (507) 263-9514.
  • Click here for General Information on Panama.
  • Click here for the Panama Stock Exchange.
• Trinidad and Tobago. Go here and click on the button labeled Desktop Delivery for the annual report highlighting the activities of the judicial system of Trinidad and Tobago. The full 40-page report is available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format and can be printed or saved as a file.
• Isle of Man, Jersey and Nevis are the subjects of these sites presented by MAYER & RISER, PLLC, ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
• Anguilla - An interesting Web site to explore. Be sure to click on the phrase "Anguilla is offshore and online!".
• St. Kitts and Nevis - The official Web site of the Ministry of Finance of the government of St. Kitts and Nevis.

• Information on Japanese Stock Indices and Exchanges:
  • The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)
  • Japan Securities Dealers Association (Japanese only)
  • Nasdaq Japan
  • Morgan Stanley Capital International
  • Nomura Securities
  • S&P index
  • To order Tokyo Stock Exchange publications, send email to the TSE's U.S. representative here.

• Learn how to detect and avoid investment fraud at FraudReview-iesc.com. Available for purchase at this site is a two-volume bookset which provides an in-depth look at the WORLD OF INVESTMENT FRAUD, SCAMS AND DECEPTIVE PRACTICES.
• Here are several tax fraud related sites:
  • Quatloos Tax Protestor Gallery
  • Quatloos Anti-IRS Theories
  • The Tax Protestor FAQ
  • Questionable tax evasion tactics
  • Irwin Schiff's Anti-Tax Site
  • Tax Protester Hall of Fame
• From the FBI and MW3C comes a new site, The Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC). The IFCC's mission is to address fraud committed over the Internet.
• The New Year 2000 OECD Report on Money Laundering is out in PDF format. This primarily discusses the various methods and techniques by which money is laundered worldwide, and should be required reading to assist you in identifying when a client or prospective client may be engaging in wrongful conduct by way of certain financial transactions or usage of entities you have created.
• Here is an article that traces the history of money laundering legislation in the US from the Bank Secrecy Act 1970. Also, check out these related links contained in the article:
  • TREASURY AND JUSTICE RELEASE MONEY LAUNDERING STRATEGY
  • The full national money laundering strategy in pdf format.
  • Read about the Bank Secrecy and Money Laundering Acts
  • ... the history of the Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Legislation from 1970 to 1998
• The Money Laundering Alert WebSite ... is another large resource on the topic of laundering.
• The Money Laundering Compliance WebSite ... the detection and prevention of fraud, details of conferences and seminars, book reviews and a large collection of links.
• NATIONAL FRAUD INFORMATION CENTER
• U.S. State Department Travel Warnings - Travel warnings, public announcements, and Consular Information Sheets.

• Here are some offshore investment fantasy lands:
  • www.new-utopia.com
  • www.oceania.org
  • www.melchizedek.com
  • www.lfcity.com
  If nothing else, these sites have a certain amusement value.
• Here are several useful services from Xenon Labs:
  • Universal Currency Converter
  • Interactive Currency Table
  • Currency Update Service
  • Personal Currency Assistant
  • Travel Expenses Calculator
  • Credit Card Charges Calculator
• Caribbean Online - If you're planning a vacation or business trip to the islands, this is a good resource.
• Zip & Area Code Lookup - If you need Zip codes, area codes, cities, states, time zones, and county information, it's all here.
• Traveling? Check these sites: Atlantic and Caribbean Hurricane Watch, The Weather Channel and Accu Weather.
• You can set your watch by the Internet, using a new Web site linked to two atomic clocks that was unveiled Thursday by the top two U.S. government timekeepers. The site, with an easy-to-remember address, http://www.time.gov, provides times for U.S. time zones only ... for times outside the United States, go to http://www.bsdi.com/date.
• No Jet Lag - Clients are advising that a new herbal approach to jet lag does work.

• The Asset Protection and Offshore Forum is an open, moderated forum to discuss asset protection and offshore topics. Subscription and other information is available at the site.
• The CIA WORLD FACTBOOK is a product of the U.S. Government's Central Intelligence Agency, and was first published in August 1962. The first unclassified version available to the public was published in June 1971. The Factbook contains an amazing amount of information on the geography, people, government, and economy of hundreds of countries.
• www.taxcape.com is a good site for offshore financial resources and taxation matters.
• The Global Private Banker Magazine is a new epublication launched in April 2000.
• Do you need a visa to get through Customs upon arrival? Here's an offshore website that answers your questions about visas for every nation. Click here.
• Web database of 220 different world governments including their parliaments, ministries, offices, courts, embassies, central banks, political parties and much more. Includes more than 14,000 entries. Click here.
• Here are the Caribbean telephone directories from Cable & Wireless.
• Wand describes itself as "the world's largest Global Internet Trade Directory" and as a virtual international marketplace for expanding your ability to buy or sell goods and services internationally. We tried their trade show listings and it did generate a lot of different listings of seminars and conferences. It's available in 16 different languages. Go to the Wand main page and choose your preferred language.
• If you're online when you're on the road, bookmark this one. It's FreeTranslation.com. Simply enter or paste the desired text and select one of the languages provided (English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, or Spanish). Click to translate but watch out for the typical idioms and dialects that often, as with any such program, produce laughable or disastrous results. ¡Goce! - Apprécier! - Genießen Sie! - Piacere! - Goze! - Enjoy!
• Articles - A large, frequently updated, collection of articles on international and business issues from Rowbotham & Company LLP.
• Latino Link - News for expatriates residing in the U.S. and for those doing business in this region.
• Business Traveler International - For the latest in business travel news.
• Expat Financial - "Global Financial Security and Service".
• Offshore Insights - A plain English guide to the Offshore World.
• Counterpane Systems - Computer Security and Cryptography Consulting. A must visit.
• Here is a list of offshore tax havens.
• Databank.secure-bank.com - The Future of E-Commerce Is Here Now! The Internet's complete solution for online commerce, automated transaction processing, and advanced electronic commerce solutions.
• International Fiscal Association (IFA) - established in 1938 with its headquarters in the Netherlands, it is the only non-governmental and non-sectoral international organisation dealing with fiscal matters.
• International Tax Planning Association (ITPA) - The definitive collection of offshore tax laws, articles and information.
• Trusts and Trustees - The world's leading journal on the formation and uses of international trusts.
• Verisign - Provider of Digital Authentication Services.
• Offshore companies and individual index. - Offshore Business News & Research now has an index of more than 5,000 companies and individuals who have appeared in articles written in Offshore Alert & Inside Bermuda. You can view this entire index for no charge at their website from their 'Main' page. Details of these articles can be accessed from the 'Story Library' section of OBNR's web-site.