Our products – bespoke trust structures including New Zealand Foreign Trusts
- Formation, trusteeship and administration of NZ Foreign Trusts and other foreign trust structures
- All incidental and associated services, including opening any trust bank accounts
Main product features and advantages
- Exemption of NZ taxes (for most structures), if revenues are generated outside New Zealand and distributed to non-residents of New Zealand
- No requirement to file an annual income tax return in New Zealand (for most structures).
- No capital gains tax
- No stamp duty
- No forced heirship
- No public access to information provided to any jurisdictional authority
- No beneficial ownership registers
- No public disclosure of the identity of the settlor or beneficiaries
- High degree of confidentiality for foreign investors
- Private trustee company acts as Corporate Trustee
- Managed by New Zealand-based trust administrators with 25 years’ experience
- Flexible instruments in general, useful for estate planning, wealth preservation and succession purposes