In the experience of our law firm if there is someone seeking information about your corporation affairs it will be the bank that they go to. As a rule this is going to have to be a government agency using some sort of a treaty to get this information if you are in a jurisdiction with bank secrecy. Trouble almost all the time goes to the bank where the money trail leads. If you are the signatory at the bank using a corporation from a country other than the one the bank is in, it does not make the process any harder since you are right there in the bank records passport copy and all. This is of course assuming the country the bank is in offers anonymous corporations where the owners names do not appear in the public registry. If you are not the signatory at the bank then of course it is a whole different matter but using a corporation from another country will still not add anything substantial to strengthen the asset protection structure.
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In the experience of our law firm if there is someone seeking information about your corporation affairs it will be the bank that they go to. As a rule this is going to have to be a government agency using some sort of a treaty to get this information if you are in a jurisdiction with bank secrecy. Trouble almost all the time goes to the bank where the money trail leads. If you are the signatory at the bank using a corporation from a country other than the one the bank is in, it does not make the process any harder since you are right there in the bank records passport copy and all. This is of course assuming the country the bank is in offers anonymous corporations where the owners names do not appear in the public registry. If you are not the signatory at the bank then of course it is a whole different matter but using a corporation from another country will still not add anything substantial to strengthen the asset protection structure.
What is the advantage to having a corporation account over a pseudonym/numbered account then? Is there one?
Dready I am quite certain there are no longer any numbered bank accounts in anything resembling a reliable jurisdiction. An anonymous corporation is really just about the same thing. The last few years of the numbered account were not so anonymous in that required id which was secreted away from all but a handful of bank employees. These is similar to using an anonymous corporation. Numbered accounts with no ID were over by the early 1990's in general. There were things like Sparbuch accounts which were not general accounts.
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