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Good summary of Passive Investing

Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 8:38 pm
by Hal
Enjoy! https://passiveinvestingaustralia.com

PS: Non US citizens setting up a US based PP.....
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Unfortunately, the US has draconian estate tax (death tax) laws for non-Americans.
For countries without a tax-treaty agreement, the threshold is $60,000.

Above the limit of your country, the US will take 40% of your US domiciled shares for estate tax that your heirs otherwise would have gotten, and that is 40% of your total assets, not 40% of the capital gain.

Re: Good summary of Passive Investing

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:49 am
by Pointedstick
Lots of countries do have a tax treaty with the USA though. A list can be found at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-lbi/tax-treaty-table-3.pdf, and you can read their text at https://www.irs.gov/businesses/internat ... ies-a-to-z.

Having done so recently for eight of them, it's actually not so bad. Most of them have very similar text and broadly agree to the same thing (e.g. income only taxed in the other country, business profits only taxed in the USA).

Re: Good summary of Passive Investing

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:23 am
by Hal
Thanks PointedStick,

I suspect your post has made many non residents much happier about their US domiciled PP !