Comments by "Jeremy Barlow" (@jeremybarlow2291) on "The Three-Step Passport Plan to Replace Your Citizenship" video.

Antigua is the CBI passport I would look at first in terms of bang for the buck. I would think about North Macedonia before Turkey because while I doubt it will ultimately join the EU, it might, but it gives you Japan. You don't get Thailand, but a Thai Elite Visa or a Thai Investor visa can take care of that. Would Turkey give you a few more countries visa free, sure, but are they countries likely to be at the top of your list of places to visit? Aside from Thailand which is not that difficult to obtain a visa for, not really. Kazakhstan? Mongolia? If you have the money to buy a CBI, you have the money and income to go to a Mexican consulate and get a Permanent Residency Permit for Mexico for your Antigua or North Macedonia passport which would put Mexico back on your list. Now after that, Bulgaria or Portugal become appealing for getting an EU citizenship, but you need to structure your investments correctly if you are going to become tax resident in either one. They are mostly appealing for non-EU citizens. If you are already an EU citizen, having a backup citizenship like any of the Caribbean citizenships is probably a good idea in the event they ever adopt a US style citizenship based tax regime. If you are single, then spending vacation time in any of the EU countries that offer citizenship to spouses of their citizens after a set amount of time, regardless of the location of your residence becomes appealing because your spouse potentially gives you the ability to live and work anywhere in the EU which can be helpful for structuring transactions.
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I have a sneaking suspicion that a NATO member that participated in the Afghanistan occupation ie Turkey is not the country you think it is, but... I suspect you are an American and they don't know much about history, geography, or world politics.
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The thing about an EU citizenship that is underrated is that it gives you the ability to live and work -without a restrictive work permit, in a couple of the best tax havens on earth which just happen to be in the EU. They aren't on any blacklists. They can help you get your company to a zero percent tax rate. They can help you get your individual tax rate to zero percent or at least near zero percent too. Hell if you do things correctly and you have an EU citizenship you can live in multiple of the highest tax countries in the world, I mean countries at the pinnacle of the first world like a Taiwan, and have a zero percent tax rate.
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@davelawson2564 he said they are on a list of countries the EU has scheduled to join the Annex II which is a list of countries with visa free access to the Schengen zone. Turkey has been a potential candidate to join the EU for a while, but Greece blocks it because of the long standing squabble between the two countries over certain Aegean islands & drilling rights in territorial waters that surround claims to those islands. Greece is who has continuously blocked Turkey from visa free access to the Schengen zone. The racist nationalists in the Eastern Region of the EU have been quite happy about this too. The EU collectively has less issues with Turkey than Greece does. The issue the US has with Turkey is that they have problems with the Kurdish minority in Iraq causing problems with their citizens of Kurdish descent and an independence movement there. Turkey has issues with terrorists in their country because of forces ie the Kurds who the US supported against ISIS using those weapons against Turkey. Once again Americans showing a complete lack of understanding of the geopolitics.
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Mandatory Military Service.
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@TazExprez after seeing what Peter Thiel did with his Roth IRA it has me thinking a ROBS Roth 401(k) may be the best tax avoidance plan available. Banking for US companies is easy. It's a huge market. If you set up the company as a South Dakota enterprise if you use a foreign corporation as an operating company and either opt for a pass through tax strategy or just paying the corporate G.I.L.T.I. or Subpart F rates you can get taxes to at the most 21% and even after the increase in 2025 only 16.5% under G.I.L.T.I. with the coming of the OECD global tax regime it may be impossible to do better.
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This is correct, but structuring of your business and your residencies can optimize it even further. For EU citizens especially the opportunities are amongst the best available. If you are an EU citizen with a tax-free citizenship like an Antigua or St. Kitts in your back pocket you even have options for an escape plan that becomes more appealing. As an American planning around taxes is much harder, but there are even times when using an American corporation makes sense, especially if you have read the right double tax treaties and understand when what looks like a problem in regards to lowering your taxes actual creates an opportunity. This is especially true if you have friends in business whose assets are in no way related to yours that are happy to benefit by working with you on a plan to make you both wealthier. Avoiding taxes with international structuring and loopholes is a team sport.
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@jshawsworld the best thing about European loopholes is that the top line tax rates are so high, the poor people will never know you don't pay any taxes because they don't understand not only what the loopholes are, but how massive they are. I mean you could literally have a European company in a country with a tax rate that appears to be 35% that actually pays 0% and you could live in a country where the tax rate is 50% or more for individuals and pay 1% or maybe 2% on your total income, but on the income you spend inside that country your tax rate might be 40% or more.
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@jshawsworld oh you need to understand non-dom rules. You don't want to be a citizen of some of the best countries in Europe if you want their greatest tax benefits, but you do want to be a resident of them. Only you want to be a non-domiciled resident.
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@mikey10006 not true, they do, if you meet a very specific set of rules regarding highly skilled people.
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@wd8005 Portugal will grant citizenship to spouses of Portuguese citizens who have "ties" to the Portuguese community after 3 years of marriage and it does not matter where you reside.
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@patricktraichal9287 most of Central America has a territorial tax regime that is particularly appealing if you have gotten your business to the point where say Bill Gates handed over the reigns to Steve Balmer.
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@saintburnsy2468 I mean yeah, because his love for Malaysia a stable democracy that ousted a clearly corrupt Prime Minister despite a lengthy run for his party's control of the legislature and his pending trial for looting the government's pension scheme screams a love for authoritarian regimes. I mean it almost as much as the fact that the former President of Georgia, noted for cleaning up the problems in his government and strengthening both the free market, democracy, and civil liberties in his country spoke at his most recent conference screams it. If his criticism was that Andrew is a fan of countries with lax tax enforcement authorities it might be a legitimate criticism, but authoritarian regimes?🤷🏼‍♂️
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If Roger Ver with a federal felony conviction for explosives who renounced his US citizenship can get a B1/B2 visa to the USA, unless you are completely destitute -which doesn't seem to be the audience for this content, or have for some bizarre reason been living in one of the war zones on the US extra special attention is paid to anyone who ever visited those countries when they want a visa list, I have no clue what you would have had to have done to be denied a US visitor visa. Now I know people who have been denied entry to Canada for a DUI, so that is an entirely different story, but...
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@raymiller764 if you want to be free, you don't want to pass down an obligation that enslaves your progeny.
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