Emirates such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi are major and growing destinations for the expatriate community with low tax rates and a high standard of living. However, new rules on mortgage borrowing in the United Arab Emirates mean that buying property in the region is about to become much more difficult for expats...
Expat & Offshore has previously reported extensively on the draconian debt default laws exercised in the United Arab Emirates. Expats had long been the victim of jailing for as innocuous an act as defaulting on a cheque...
China is often described in the news as the top emerging nation and latent superpower. Expats have long been drawn to this burgeoning economy with many opportunities for educated expats in expanding Chinese firms...
The Portuguese parliament has approved changes to the IRS Code that will allow expats spending part of the year in Portugal to escape taxation of their pension payments...
The UK government has come under criticism over its policy regarding expat pensions. Currently individuals who have paid national insurance contributions over the course of their working lives but emigrated to over 120 countries including Canada, New Zealand and Australia will have their pensions frozen rather than rise along with their onshore contemporaries...
The United States of America might be the archetypal land of immigrants but expats attracted to America have often found the doors firmly shut. Now a new website has been launched looking to attract expat entrepreneurs to the home of the brave...
For expats moving abroad for the first time, or those that have been offshore for a while, moving money across borders is often of primary and pressing concern...
British people have always seen retiring abroad to sunnier climes as particularly attractive for obvious reasons but new research suggests that Brits of working age now make up a greater proportion of new expats...
It is easy to forget that the economic crisis that enveloped the world in 2008 started with a bad debt malaise at the world’s biggest banks. One result of this has been an explosion in demand for compliance and risk professionals and now financial institutions in Asia are catching up with Europe and the USA...
Wealthy potential expats looking at Australia for their next offshore destination may have a new opportunity to get fast tracked for a visa thanks to new rules announced recently...