Financial Privacy

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Financial Privacy Anonymous 03/04/16 (Fri) 22:31:27 000000 No.1064

Say my goal is financial privacy. The more hard-core I can get it the better. If I can pay utilities without them even knowing my real name, great. If my investments require a subpoena to be linked to me, great. To this end, here are some questions:

- Say I make a LLC with me as sole owner, and register a car underneath the LLC. If a cop did a run on the plates, they would not get me, but instead find the LLC, right?

- Say I make a LLC with me as sole owner, and I set up a $10k bank account under the LLC. Then, sometime down the road, I run into trouble with the law and my personal bank account is frozen. Do I still have access to the LLC's bank account?

- How can I set up a ghost address?

- Is there any way to forward mail to an address without needing to show someone my ID?

- Say I am a dual citizen of the U.S. and Italy. I have passports from both countries. I travel to Italy using my U.S. passport, and I open an Italian bank accounts transfering funds from my U.S. bank to the Italian one using my U.S. passport so that it follows FATCA filing requirements. I then walk across the street to another Italian bank and use my Italian passport to start an account, transfer the funds from the U.S. passport connected bank to the Italian-passport one. Now I take a train to Switzerland using my Italian passport, and I make a classic private Swiss bank account under my Italian passport and bank. I go back to Italy, close the Italian account, and then head back home using my U.S. passport. Are the funds in the Swiss account essentially private?

Anonymous 03/05/16 (Sat) 01:08:00 1fe9d3 No.1065

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I can't really answer these questions (wish i could), but I just want to point out that the notion of privacy is one that's being eradicated within this digital age. If they really wanted to nail you, they could. I think your success mainly determines on how little of a threat your business is to the state, like if you're constantly laundering LOTS of money. If you're just some schmoe moving <10k/mo it's probably doable. Might not be worth the trouble though, if you're sloppy about it you'll just wind up raising a bunch of red flags and attract even more attention. Running a shell company is definitely the way to go, it's how the big boys handle their shady businesses. Start a car wash or whatever.

But yeah for the most part, if you can sign up for something without using any personally identifying information I'd say you're good to go. If they require personal identification don't risk it, or be professional and use a patsy as a fall guy. The more prominent your link to the organization the more incentive they have to seek you out over anyone else, no link is ideal. And always have an escape plan you can carry out at any time. The more dirty money you handle the more risk you take.

Switzerland seems to have become a bitch to the US and EU, Singapore or Hong Kong might be a better choice for holding a personal bank account. But in reality all the banks are in the same game so I wouldn't really trust any of them to keep confidentiality of my records, you'll probably get sold out. It would be a mistake to trust them.

I'd suggest hoarding bitcoin as it's immune to capital controls and still has plenty of room for further appreciation, if you're willing to take some investment risk. I'm unaware of any other asset that is so easily transferred anywhere on the planet without any gov't oversight or regulation. Seriously consider using it if financial privacy is your goal.

Good luck buddy. In today's world NOT paying taxes is a virtuous act. The elite who write the rules have the easiest time ignoring them. I'd rather suck it up and pay my taxes though, jail sucks.