In today’s fast-moving and unpredictable economy, what feels like enough wealth today might fall short tomorrow. asset protection is no longer a luxury—it’s a smart, necessary move to safeguard everything you’ve worked hard to build.

for entrepreneurs, investors, and families with long-term goals, a forward-thinking strategy does more than just defend current assets. it lays the foundation for lasting stability and future prosperity. in a world full of change, having a solid plan in place ensures your success isn’t shaken by life’s uncertainties.

Foundations provide an exceptional way to safeguard your assets for future generations while allowing you to achieve specific social, cultural, or family objectives. They offer reliable protection against unpredictable economic shifts, potential legal actions, and geopolitical risks.

Family foundations are designed to shield assets from seizure, ensuring they are protected from creditors—whether it’s an ex-spouse, former business partners, or government entities. By transferring assets into the foundation’s ownership or assigning them to a foundation-controlled legal entity, these assets can remain secure, offering a layer of protection that is hard to match in traditional asset structures.

A cooperative allows for the separation of personal and business assets, ensuring that the cooperative’s assets remain independent from the members’ contributions. Even with assets totaling one billion euros, the value of individual shares remains consistent (e.g., EUR 3,000).

In the case of inheritance, only the nominal share value is inherited and taxed, not the entire cooperative assets. This can be especially advantageous when dealing with real estate assets that exceed the German inheritance and gift tax allowance.

It is highly recommended to contribute both rental and owner-occupied properties to a family cooperative in order to benefit from the exemption from seizure, within the privileged status of housing cooperatives in Germany.

Family foundations are a favored tool for estate planning, enabling founders to ensure their intentions are respected even after death. This includes prioritizing certain heirs or bypassing compulsory portions. Access to assets can be linked to specific conditions, provided they are not immoral.

A carefully structured family foundation owns itself. This structure can help avoid exit taxation in countries like Germany and Austria upon emigration, since no company shares are held by the individual.

In a landscape where international regulations like CRS and BEPS are reshaping traditional offshore jurisdictions, Stateless has observed a shift toward “onshore” as the new “offshore.” Countries like the US, with their tax-transparent LLCs, offer stability and credibility. However, classic tax havens continue to hold their value.

Nevis stands out in this changing landscape. Despite global trends, Nevis remains a stronghold for asset protection. As a former British colony governed by common law, it offers robust defenses for asset owners, with high barriers for plaintiffs and no recognition of foreign court judgments. In addition to its strong LLC and GmbH structures, Nevis provides tax advantages, flexibility, and unparalleled protection for business owners.

The combination of tax regulations in the USA and the German-American Friendship Treaty of 1953 could allow real estate held under an LLC to be shielded from potential asset levies or forced mortgages in Germany.

A US LLC offers you the opportunity for tax exemption, simplified accounting, and confidentiality. With a strong reputation, it acts as a powerful safeguard against claims and asset loss. When combined with other legal structures, like a cooperative, an LLC can provide even greater tax and legal benefits.

The American LLC isn’t just a smart choice for tax exemptions and minimal accounting; it also offers unparalleled discretion with no transparency register or mandatory information sharing. With its strong reputation, it grants access to essential business tools like PayPal, while providing robust protection against warnings, seizures, and asset losses. This is how modern entrepreneurs safeguard their interests in the 21st century.

The seychelles private interest foundation (“pif”) is the latest state-of-the-art tax planning and asset protection product from the booming tax haven of the seychelles.

the seychelles private interest foundation, which came into effect in december 2009, draws heavily on the more well-known aspects of the panama and liechtenstein models, but also has its own unique features that make it particularly attractive to clients for whom asset protection and tax minimization are paramount.

the main advantages of the seychelles private interest foundation lie in the opportunities it offers in terms of tax deferral, succession planning, and financial privacy. (the act also contains some of the strictest asset protection provisions ever conceived for a structure of this type.)

neither the names of the person(s) establishing the pif nor the names of the persons intended to benefit from the pif need to be disclosed to the registry, and the structure is easy to register—simply by filing the foundation’s articles of association (this document does not need to include the names of the founder or council members).

Germany acknowledges family foundations from the EU/EEA, and one of the best choices is the Principality of Liechtenstein, renowned for its tradition in managing family foundations. A strategic combination of a family foundation, private banking services, and privately placed unit-linked insurance contracts provides strong asset protection.

By distributing assets through the foundation’s foreign subsidiaries, they are shielded from the direct reach of the German state, enabling the credible positioning of no ownership of assets within Germany.