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Turning Tax Laws into Your Advantage
When your tax matters span multiple countries and complex international regulations, you need more than a domestic tax attorney — you need sophisticated international tax representation that understands the intricate relationship between U.S. tax law and Latin American business practices. Saltiel Law Group provides the comprehensive cross-border tax counsel that international families and multinational businesses require to navigate today's complex global tax landscape.
Guided by our Lead Tax Counsel Andrés Hernández, our comprehensive Miami tax practice combines advanced knowledge of U.S. federal and state tax law with an established record in international tax compliance, pre-immigration planning, and cross-border estate planning. Through our strategic alliances with EJASO in Spain, we provide integrated tax solutions that seamlessly coordinate across multiple jurisdictions.
Ready to optimize your international tax strategy with legal guidance? Contact us today for your confidential consultation.
Our tax attorneys operate with native fluency in both English and Spanish, providing comprehensive international tax services that truly understand the cultural and legal nuances of cross-border tax planning. Unlike competitors who rely on translators or basic language skills, we navigate complex international tax regulations, conduct detailed financial analysis, and structure sophisticated tax strategies with complete linguistic and cultural competency.
This bilingual counsel proves essential when coordinating tax strategies across different legal systems, where precise regulatory interpretation must maintain consistent meaning between U.S. federal tax law and Latin American tax codes. Our team understands the subtle differences in tax concepts, reporting requirements, and compliance obligations that can significantly impact international tax planning outcomes.
Miami's position as the preferred gateway for Latin American families entering the U.S. creates unique opportunities for sophisticated pre-immigration tax planning that most law firms cannot handle effectively. Our pre-immigration tax services include:
Recent client success includes advising Latin American families on pre-immigration restructuring that resulted in millions of dollars in ongoing U.S. tax savings while maintaining operational flexibility and asset protection across multiple jurisdictions.
International families and businesses face increasingly complex U.S. reporting requirements that demand dedicated tax attorney counsel to navigate successfully. Our FATCA and FBAR compliance services ensure full regulatory compliance while optimizing reporting strategies:
Our compliance approach focuses on proactive planning that prevents costly penalties while optimizing ongoing reporting obligations through strategic international structuring.
International families require sophisticated estate planning that accounts for tax implications across multiple jurisdictions. Our cross-border estate planning integrates U.S. estate and gift tax law with international succession planning requirements:
Miami's multinational corporate community requires sophisticated international tax counsel that understands complex cross-border business operations. Our multinational tax services include transfer pricing compliance, international restructuring, and global tax optimization that enables effective international expansion while ensuring comprehensive regulatory compliance.
We regularly advise multinational corporations on international tax planning strategies that optimize global tax burden while supporting business objectives across multiple jurisdictions, including comprehensive BEPS compliance and anti-avoidance planning.
Miami's international real estate market requires specific tax lawyer services for foreign investors, international development projects, and cross-border real estate transactions. Our real estate tax services include FIRPTA compliance, international investor structuring, and cross-border transaction tax optimization.
Recent examples include advising international investors on real estate acquisition structures that optimize tax outcomes while ensuring compliance with FIRPTA withholding requirements and international reporting obligations.
Miami's international banking community requires sophisticated tax counsel that understands complex global financial services regulation and cross-border compliance requirements. Our financial services tax counsel includes international fund structuring, cross-border financing optimization, and regulatory compliance coordination.
We provide comprehensive tax support for international financial institutions operating in U.S. markets, ensuring optimal tax outcomes while maintaining full regulatory compliance across all applicable requirements.
International families require comprehensive tax planning that coordinates wealth management, estate planning, and international compliance across multiple generations and jurisdictions. Our family office tax services include ongoing tax compliance, strategic planning, and wealth transfer optimization.
We serve as tax counsel to international family offices, providing comprehensive tax guidance that supports long-term wealth preservation while ensuring full compliance with evolving international tax regulations.
International trade companies face unique tax challenges arising from cross-border operations, transfer pricing requirements, and complex international compliance obligations. Our international trade tax services include transfer pricing compliance, customs and trade tax coordination, and international structuring optimization.
We regularly advise international trading companies on tax strategies that optimize global operations while ensuring comprehensive compliance with transfer pricing regulations and international trade tax requirements.
Tax treaties between the U.S. and Latin American countries provide significant opportunities for tax optimization when properly utilized. Our treaty counsel includes a comprehensive analysis of treaty benefits, treaty shopping prevention, and strategic structuring that maximizes treaty benefits while ensuring compliance with anti-abuse provisions.
We regularly advise clients on optimizing tax outcomes through the strategic use of tax treaties, including complete and precise analysis of residence requirements, permanent establishment issues, and withholding tax optimization.
Transfer pricing compliance requires sophisticated economic analysis and comprehensive documentation to withstand regulatory scrutiny. Our transfer pricing counsel includes economic analysis, documentation preparation, and controversy defense that ensures compliance with OECD guidelines and local transfer pricing regulations.
We provide comprehensive transfer pricing services that optimize international tax outcomes while ensuring full compliance with evolving OECD transfer pricing standards and local implementation requirements.
Foreign investment in U.S. real estate triggers complex FIRPTA withholding and compliance requirements. Our FIRPTA counsel includes withholding compliance, exemption planning, and structuring optimization that minimizes FIRPTA burden while ensuring full regulatory compliance.
We regularly advise foreign real estate investors on FIRPTA optimization strategies that minimize withholding burden while preserving investment flexibility and ensuring comprehensive compliance with all applicable requirements.
U.S. persons with foreign business interests face complex CFC and Subpart F compliance requirements. Our CFC counsel includes comprehensive compliance analysis, income inclusion optimization, and structural planning that minimizes Subpart F income while ensuring full regulatory compliance.
We provide strategic CFC planning that optimizes international business structures while ensuring comprehensive compliance with complex CFC regulations and anti-deferral rules.
Existing international business structures may require modification to optimize tax outcomes while preserving operational efficiency. Our restructuring counsel includes comprehensive analysis, implementation planning, and ongoing compliance that achieves optimal tax results across all relevant jurisdictions.
We regularly advise on international restructuring projects that optimize global tax burden while preserving business flexibility and ensuring comprehensive regulatory compliance.
International families and businesses with unreported foreign accounts face significant penalty exposure that can often be mitigated through strategic voluntary disclosure and compliance correction. We resolve unreported foreign account issues through comprehensive penalty mitigation strategies that minimize financial impact while ensuring full future compliance.
Recent success includes representing clients with unreported foreign accounts worth millions of dollars, achieving penalty mitigation that saved hundreds of thousands of dollars while ensuring comprehensive ongoing compliance.
International audits and transfer pricing disputes require sophisticated defense strategies that account for complex economic analysis and multi-jurisdictional regulatory coordination. We resolve international tax disputes through comprehensive advocacy that protects client interests while achieving optimal resolution.
Our international audit defense background includes successful resolution of complex transfer pricing disputes, international information return penalties, and multi-jurisdictional audit coordination that achieves favorable outcomes while preserving ongoing business relationships.
Families and individuals planning U.S. immigration face complex tax optimization opportunities that can result in significant ongoing tax savings when properly implemented. We resolve pre-immigration tax challenges through comprehensive planning that optimizes long-term tax outcomes while ensuring full compliance.
Successful pre-immigration planning includes international asset restructuring that achieved millions of dollars in ongoing tax savings for Latin American families while preserving asset protection benefits and operational flexibility.
International families face complex estate planning challenges that require coordination of U.S. estate tax law with international succession requirements. We resolve cross-border estate planning challenges through comprehensive strategies that optimize estate tax outcomes while ensuring family objectives are achieved.
Our cross-border estate planning knowledge includes successful multi-generational wealth transfer planning that minimized estate tax burden while preserving family control and ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
We handle comprehensive international tax planning that supports Miami’s global business community while ensuring comprehensive compliance across all relevant jurisdictions.
Our international alliance network provides unmatched capabilities for coordinated cross-border tax planning. Through established partnerships with EJASO in Spain, we coordinate complex multi-jurisdictional tax strategies that ensure optimal outcomes across different regulatory environments.
Our tax practice integrates seamlessly with our corporate transaction and estate planning capabilities, providing comprehensive counsel that optimizes tax outcomes across all aspects of international business and family planning.
Our firm is conveniently located in Coral Gables, making us well-poised to serve clients throughout South Florida, including Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, and many others. We’re also proud to extend our services to international clients across Latin America and Spain.
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requires U.S. persons to report foreign financial assets exceeding certain thresholds. FATCA compliance includes Form 8938 filing requirements and coordination with foreign financial institution reporting requirements.
At Saltiel Law Group, we provide comprehensive FATCA analysis that determines your specific reporting obligations and ensures full compliance while optimizing reporting strategies to minimize ongoing compliance burden.
Pre-immigration tax planning can result in significant ongoing tax savings by restructuring international assets and income before triggering U.S. tax residency. Strategic planning opportunities include trust restructuring, income acceleration or deferral, and international entity optimization.
Our pre-immigration planning background includes clients who achieved millions of dollars in ongoing tax savings through strategic restructuring implemented before obtaining U.S. residency, while preserving asset protection and operational flexibility.
Unreported foreign accounts can trigger significant penalties, including FBAR penalties up to 50% of account balances and FATCA penalties for unfiled Forms 8938. However, voluntary disclosure programs can often significantly reduce penalty exposure.
We regularly help clients resolve unreported foreign account issues through strategic voluntary disclosure that minimizes penalty exposure while ensuring full future compliance with all international reporting requirements.
Tax treaties provide benefits, including reduced withholding taxes, elimination of double taxation, and access to mutual agreement procedures for dispute resolution. However, treaty benefits require careful structuring to avoid treaty shopping restrictions.
Our treaty services include a comprehensive analysis of treaty benefits and strategic structuring that maximizes treaty advantages while ensuring compliance with anti-abuse provisions and substance requirements.
Yes, our team provides comprehensive international tax services in both English and Spanish with native fluency. Our bilingual capabilities extend beyond translation to include cultural competency and an advanced understanding of Latin American business practices and legal systems.
Lead Tax Counsel Andrés Hernández and our international tax team conduct all client communications, tax analysis, and strategic planning with complete bilingual fluency, ensuring effective communication and optimal outcomes for international clients.
Transfer pricing governs the prices charged between related entities for goods, services, and intellectual property. Proper transfer pricing documentation is required to avoid significant penalties and audit adjustments that can result in double taxation.
Our transfer pricing counsel includes comprehensive economic analysis, documentation preparation, and controversy defense that ensures compliance with OECD guidelines while optimizing international tax outcomes for multinational businesses.
Contact Saltiel Law Group today to discover how our bilingual international tax law services and strategic alliance network can support your cross-border tax objectives. Our combination of U.S. tax law mastery, Latin American market knowledge, and global compliance background provides the comprehensive tax counsel your international business and family deserve.
