If you buy in volume, say in the 10 to 50 acre parcels, the prices drop and make a fine investment through subdividing into lots that will often double your value as soon as the first for sale sign is put up. If you missed out on the boom in Costa Rica, and Honduras is a little pricey for you, there are still rock bottom opportunities in Nicaragua and Guatemala. Five years from now, I expect these prices to be up substantially with returns that any stock market would be envious of. Lower Taxes, IF. . . . . You can avoid many of you taxes and defer much of your income, if you follow the rules religiously.
Trusts can help their founders avoid probate, capital gains and certain income taxes.
Annuities can defer income from high earnings years to retirement and dramatically lower their owner's income tax bracket. Corporations, domestic and foreign, can hold and own assets in their own right and pay expenses that would otherwise be wasted on post tax dollars from an individual return. The key to minimization is proper planning. If you can lower your income tax bracket two notches, bulk up your retirement through tax deferred investments and perfect inheritance taxes lurking in probate court, the results make the difference between retiring and runny dry. Don't be fooled into buying a trust or IBC in a box, it's nothing but a shell until you breathe life into it through funding and management.