United States Cross Border Resources

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Contents 1 Country Information - United States 2 Immigration issues 3 Cash Managment 4 Tax Planning 5 Investment Planning 6 Risk management 7 Retirement Planning 8 Estate Planning and Succession Taxes 9 Local Regulation 10 Referrals to Local Financial Planners

Country Information - United States

In an effort to provide information on financial planning issues in the US, FPA volunteers have gathered the following links together to point you towards a variety of different resources.

Each link has a descriptive tag explaining what type of site the link goes to. The tags are:

• GOV for government or regulatory sites • ORG for non-profit or association sites • EDU for academic or educational sites • COM for commercial sites, such as product providers

Virtually all of the links lead off of FPA's Web site.

Quality of life – local flavor and customs

• http://www.peoplegoingglobal.com/Americas/United_States.htm (com)
• http://www.foreignborn.com (com)

Health

• http://www.os.dhhs.gov (gov)
• http://www.nih.gov (gov)

Social Security coverage

• http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10006.html (gov)
• http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=97160,00.html (gov)

Education standards

• http://www.ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml (gov)
• http://www.foreignborn.com/self-help/school/index.htm (com)

Ex-pats opinions on quality of life

• http://www.expatexchange.net/expat/index.cfm?catid=15&dbname=ee&shared=N (com)

Immigration issues

Legal Residency

• http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis (gov)

Visas and immigration requirements

• http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis (gov)
• http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/visa_1750.html (gov)

Cash Managment

Bank accounts

• http://www.foreignborn.com/self-help/banking/index.htm (com)
• http://www.fdic.gov (gov)

Currency conversion

• http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/update (gov)

Education costs

• http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp (gov)
• http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/dollars/dshome.htm (com)

Cost of living analysis

• http://www.homefair.com/homefair/servlet/ActionServlet?pid=500&homefair&to=ActionServlet%3Fpid%3D244%26cid%3Dhomefair&pagename=199&internal=T (com)
• http://www.bls.gov/cpi/#data (gov)

Housing issues

• http://www.hud.gov (gov)
• http://www.homefair.com (com)

Tax Planning

• http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p901.pdf (gov)
• http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p54.pdf (gov)

Determining liability for income and gains taxes

• http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p54.pdf (gov)
• http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=96477,00.html (gov)

Determining liability for estate taxes

• http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/category/Taxation+&+Estate+Planning (com)
• http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/00nraest.pdf (gov)

Exit taxes and final tax return

• http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1438.pdf (gov)

Foreign Tax Credit arrangements

• http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=97122,00.html (com)

Local taxation of non-local pensions and investments

• http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=96459,00.html (gov)
• http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=96811,00.html (gov)

Investment Planning

Asset Allocation viewed globally

• http://www.offshorepress.com/protection/index.htm (com)
• http://www.ustreas.gov (gov)
• http://www.customs.ustreas.gov (gov)

Risk management

• http://moneycentral.msn.com/Insure/home.asp (com)

Local litigation risks

• http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9231/9231.ch01.html (edu)
• http://www.nceo.org/library/litigate.html (org)

Liability Insurance

• http://www.mostchoice.com/insurance-overview.html (com)

Health Insurance

• http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthins.html (com)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance (org)
• http://www.expatexchange.com/rgall.cfm?categoryID=9&networkID=159 (com)

Property Insurance

• http://moneycentral.msn.com/marketplace/selectState.asp?iMarketID=9 (com)

Retirement Planning

Local pension design and tax structure on encashment

• http://www.dol.gov/ebsa (gov)

Social Security agreements between countries

• http://www.ssa.gov/international/totalization_agreements.html (gov)

Estate Planning and Succession Taxes

• http://gsalaw.lawoffice.com/article5.htm (com)

Local taxation of non-local trusts

• http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/intstart.pdf (gov)
• http://gsalaw.lawoffice.com/article5.htm (gov)

Local Regulation

• http://www.sec.gov (gov)
• http://www.finra.org/RegistrationQualifications/index.htm (com)
• http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/15/ch2DschII.html (edu)

Referrals to Local Financial Planners

• PlannerSearch (org)