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Dubai Digest: Entity Structuring in Dubai: Part II, by J. Richard Duke, Offshore Investment, September 2008: http://www.offshoreinvestment.com

Comment: IRS Targeting of Offshore Promoters, by J. Richard Duke, and Dubai Digest: Entity Structuring in Dubai, by J. Richard Duke, Offshore Investment, July/August 2008: http://www.offshoreinvestment.com

Controlled Foreign Corporation Tax Guide, Third Edition, by Vernon K. Jacobs and J. Richard Duke , is now available for purchase by either hard copy or Internet: http://www.offshorepress.com/

Legal Ways to Save by Vernon Jacobs and Richard Duke is an extensive collection of tax reduction alternatives that are sanctioned by the U.S. tax law and will work anywhere in the world. Do you want to know how to save taxes offshore or just how to save taxes without getting into an argument with the IRS? Do you wonder if you are paying more taxes than the law requires?

http://www.offshorepress.com/legalways2save.htm

 

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http://offshorepress.stores.yahoo.net/semreg.html

Offshore Tax Strategies by Vernon Jacobs and Richard Duke is an abbreviated primer on the U.S. tax rules for offshore investments, foreign trusts, foreign corporations, foreign partnerships and other foreign entities. And it is written with a minimum of tax jargon. An extensive plain English glossary is included with the book. Offshore Tax Strategies is a summary description of all the basic elements of international taxation. Printed copies are available for $67. An E-book edition is available for just $37. For more information or to order: http://www.offshorepress.com/offshoretax/

Jenkens & Gilchrist Admits It Is Subject to $76 Million IRS Penalty 

IR-2007-71, March 29, 2007

Jenkens & Gilchrist NP PR

Jenkens & Gilchrist NP Agreement

 

IRS Warns Taxpayers of New E-mail Scams

IRS Newswire - Issue Number: IR-2007-109

 

Richard Duke is the author of "Qualified intermediary and withholding rules," April 2007, Vol. 15, Issue 4, STEP Journal.

Levin, Coleman, Obama Introduce Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act: Bill targets $100 billion in lost tax revenue each year from offshore tax dodges Citing $100 billion in revenue drained from the U.S. Treasury at the expense of honest, hardworking American families who pay their fair share, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., introduced comprehensive legislation to stop offshore tax haven and tax shelter abuses.

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Richard Duke is the author of "Offshore, Legitimately," Trusts & Estates, a PRIMEDIA Publication (New York, NY) (Nov. 2006). Authors are granted permission by Trusts & Estates magazine to post articles on the Internet provided that proper credit is given to Trusts & Estates.

Richard Duke is the author of "Superfluous supervision?" in the December 2006 issue of STEP Journal. This article was first published in the STEP Journal, the magazine of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, with a readership of over 24,500 practitioners and key regulatory, government and industry figures. To find a STEP practitioner, please go to www.step.org or call +44 (0)20 7838 4885. To subscribe to the STEP Journal, please go to www.step.org/subscribe or call +44(0)1423 85 11 50. Please find attached the pdf article for your convenience.

 

Richard Duke is the author of "The American Way," in the November 2006 issue of Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal, published by Legalease Ltd. www.legalease.co.uk To subscribe, call +020 7396 9292 or Fax +020 7396 9300.

 

Richard Duke authored the article titled "Offshore Lawyers Have 'Trials' Too," Offshore Investment (December 2005/January 2006).

Richard Duke is the author of "U.S. Uniform Trust Code," Global Assets, Finance Publications Offshore Ltd. (St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands) vol. 3, no. 4 (Autumn 2005). This article has not been updated to reflect additional U.S. states that have adopted the Uniform Trust Code.

Richard Duke authored two chapters, "Tax Compliance and Reporting For Offshore Trusts" and "Uses of Foreign Life Insurance in International Estate Planning," in the book Asset Protection Strategies: Planning with Domestic and Offshore Entities (The American Bar Association, 2002)

Vernon K. Jacobs, CPA, and J. Richard Duke, LL.M., The Offshore Tax Boot Camp Seminar Manual, Second Edition, Research Press, Inc. (Prairie Village, Kansas 2002)

Using the Foreign Nongrantor Trust in Offshore Testamentary Estate Planning, Sovereign Tax Journal (2002)

 

 

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