Google Pushed You to Pay Biden Taxes, While Owner Moved Family Money Offshore
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has opened a family office in Singapore to help manage his fortune in a tax effective way, making him the latest tycoon to establish a private investment company in the financial hub.
The average man in the street can not afford to do that, he has to ive with the tax Biden will bring in, setting up offshore cuts your tax bill but is expensive to start.
The company overseeing the assets of Brin, the world's ninth-richest person with wealth of US$86.5 billion, set up its Singapore branch late last year, according to documents filed with the corporate regulator.
The ultra-wealthy have increasingly chosen the Asia in recent years to open so-called "family offices" focused on handling their fortunes and lives, among them British billionaire inventor James Dyson.
They are attracted by the city-state's low tax rates, political stability, and incentives such as a scheme giving investors a pathway to permanent residency.
The city-state of 5.7 million, which has a large expatriate population, is home to about 200 single-family offices overseeing assets worth some US$20 billion, according to the government.
Singapore is also widely seen as having received a boost from long-running turbulence in rival financial hub Hong Kong.
According to the documents filed with the regulator, the Singapore office of Brin's US-based Bayshore Global Management will mainly focus on managing family investments.
The office of Brin, 47, is named after North Bayshore, the area of Mountain View, California where Google has its headquarters.
Brin and Larry Page co-founded the internet search engine -- now a unit of parent company Alphabet -- in 1998. They stepped down from their roles at the helm of Alphabet in 2019.
Google has its Asian headquarters in Singapore.
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