[nixisfun]

The author mentions he keeps his money in a foreign bank that I presume the MA department of revenue cannot get at. Does anyone have any recommendations of overseas banks that are easy to open accounts with without travelling to said country.

[jonstokes]

See my above comment. It was just luck that they didn't get to the Barclays money, and yeah that's probably also because Barclays is foreign that the luck happened. But I wouldn't count on that. If I hadn't moved quickly to hire a good tax lawyer and then contact MA and start working on a resolution, they'd have found and frozen our Barclays assets eventually.

[rodgerd]

> overseas banks that are easy to open accounts with without travelling to said country.

I think you'll find it very difficult to achieve that with a bank you want to trust your money to; anti-money laundering treaties have cranked up the requirements on banks to verify the identity of new customers.