Reasonable tax avoidance and protection of personal assets are normal in foreign countries. However, in the face of the perfection and complexity of tax laws in some immigrant countries, how to avoid taxes is also a difficult problem for new immigrants. Taking the United States as an example, immigration experts will introduce you to five ways for new immigrants to avoid taxes. Strategy 1: Two Ways to Avoid Inheritance Tax Americans mainly use two methods to avoid inheritance tax, one is Serto Trust, and the other is family limited partnership. The shield letter effectively avoided the uncertainty of who died first. It sets up a trust for each couple, and part of the assets will be transferred to the children's trust. In this way, the tax cuts for both husband and wife will not be in vain. To establish a family business, you can establish a family limited partnership, preferably middle-aged, with parents as general partners, and then transfer assets to their children's accounts bit by bit. Finally, all children have a small part. For China families who like to buy commercial properties, it is very appropriate to adopt family limited partnership to transfer assets. Strategy 2: Before immigration, the principle of realizing book value in the United States was to tax only realized income, that is, real estate was only taxed when it was bought, sold or transferred. If the property is not transferred, value-added tax will not be levied on the books. There are still many unrealized cases of book appreciation, such as the price increase of real estate and the appreciation of stocks, bonds and jewelry. New immigrants are likely to encounter the problem of American real estate value-added tax when dealing with real estate. Because when you become an American resident, you don't have to pay taxes on the property brought in from abroad. The easiest way is to cash in the income that has not been realized by book appreciation, such as selling stocks and transferring real estate. After obtaining the status, you can use your cash to invest in new stocks and real estate. In this way, you don't have to pay taxes on these value-added properties. On the other hand, if you have a loss-making investment, you don't have to sell it in a hurry. You can wait until you get a green card, so you can get a tax credit later. Strategy 3: working overseas, the United States is tax-free. For immigrants, green card, citizenship and tax are contradictory. American immigration law stipulates that green card holders must stay in the United States for more than half a year, otherwise their green cards may be confiscated. However, if there are reasonable reasons why you cannot return to the United States within six months, you can apply for a return permit (white paper), which is valid for two years. In addition, naturalized American citizens must stay in the United States for more than two and a half years within five years of holding a green card, and must file tax returns honestly. However, more and more new immigrants return to work after getting green cards, and only report to the United States symbolically every year, nicknamed "trapeze". "trapeze" overseas labor income is tax-free. However, the tax law stipulates that you can only enjoy this allowance if you stay overseas for more than 330 days a year, that is, you can only stay in the United States for 35 days a year. This is in contradiction with the condition stipulated in the Immigration Law that you can stay in the United States for half a year before you can keep your green card. However, if you apply for a re-entry permit (white paper) and use your green card together with the re-entry permit, you can legally stay overseas for 1-2 years, and your green card will not be confiscated when you re-enter the customs. It not only meets the requirements of the immigration law, but also enjoys a certain amount of tax exemption stipulated by the tax law. Strategy 4: Overseas accounts are located in "tax havens". According to the bank secrecy law of the United States, anyone who has bank accounts, brokerage accounts, * * mutual funds, unit trust funds and other financial accounts overseas, and the accumulated funds in these accounts exceed US$ 65,438+0,000, must fill in the Form of Foreign Banking and Financial Rights TDF 90-22. 1 (Foreign Banks and Financial Journalists). However, if the account is located in world-famous "tax havens" such as Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, American Guam, Samoa Islands and Virgin Islands, it can enjoy tax-free treatment. Strategy 5: Make good use of gifts tax-free In the United States, a person can only give others 1 million dollars in his life, and each person can give 1. 1 million dollars every year. If the gift of 1 year exceeds this amount, it must be reported to the tax bureau, or you can choose not to pay the gift tax, which means that the gift will be deducted from the future10.5 million inheritance tax allowance, but the government should know it. But gifts sometimes have to pay more taxes. For example, a pair of parents gave their children a house with a purchase price of $6,543,800+,and now the market value of the house is $700,000. Two years later, I sold my house and got $6.5438+0 million. However, the cost of this house is still $6,543,800+,and the children will have to pay capital income tax when they get $900,000. Because it is a gift, the base is calculated according to the original purchase price. If other methods are adopted, the tax amount will be different. For example, parents don't give it now, and it will be an inheritance after death. If the market price of the house is US$ 6,543.8+US$ 0,000, the base of the house is US$ 6,543.8+US$ 0,000. If the child is sold after living for two years, it will get $654.38+$2,000, and the value-added $200,000 will be taxed. In the case of inheritance, the base is the market price at the time of the death of the asset owner.