I. Personal Status.
The perfect status for the Paper PT, “PPT,” is that of being a tourist in his home country. One can live one’s life normally, but is treated as a tourist, year after year.

To make the PPT work, different people must see you in different ways. No one must see you as someone to be controlled, regulated, or taxed; let them see you as a visitor. The international paper trip works for two (2) major reasons:

1. Governments of the various nations are each self-contained and have no commitments for cooperation. Each has its desires and ways of controlling its citizens. If your country thinks you are a visitor from another country, then it does not feel the need to try to control you, tax you, or in any other way subject you to any long-term situations. The objective is always to fall in the crack, always to appear as if you are from somewhere else.
2. While you are in any nation as a tourist, your rights, privileges, and responsibilities are controlled by international treaty, not by local law and regulation. E.g., in California, driving is a privilege, it is right/privilege recognized by treaty if you area tourist.

This version of the PT theory permits you to remain in one place and still have all of the major advantages of the PT philosophy. With the PPT approach, the most international travel you need to do is one or more international trips, as vacations, for setting up one or two items. It is possible to do the job without leaving home, but you receive more advantages if you can go in person.

The situation today is that every government agency, as well as countless private ones, are cranking out databases in computers about everyone. Programs cross-reference to assure that you comply with every little regulation and file every little piece of paperwork. If you have a driver’s license, other computers will work to make sure you pay taxes. All of these track through using the SSN. Record keeping is now too complex ever to be manually managed.

The wonderful thing about this situation is that the computer is now God; what is on the computer is what is regarded as fact/truth, to be enforced and complied with. Every bureau-rat must have his computer. If the computers say that you are resident in that grass shack in Thailand, then you are! Even if you are physically standing in front of them, they cannot make any conclusion other than that you have returned home for a visit, but will soon be returning to your grass shack.

The other beauty of this situation is that crosschecks are not possible without common identification items. If John Smith is a US citizen and has the ID # 123-45-6789, but before them stands John Smith who presents a Dutch ID showing his number as 987-654, there is no correlation. Names are too common, even name combinations are too common.

The proper approach is not to try to remove or correct information, but introduce new information that becomes fact because that is what is in the database.

Whether it is tax, child support, alimony, or what, computer traces do not work on an international basis because the common key is almost always a unique ID number issued on a national basis. The chances of an international computer trace working in a third world nation is even less because in nations like Thailand and Philippines, very few records are computerized.

If you have a US DL, the cop can run it through the computer and he immediately has your complete history, including physical address, credit, taxes owed, any warrants out for you, etc. If you hand him an international DL, all he has is an ID from the driving club that issued it. He has the right to demand that national drivers license that backs up the international one, but it may not be in English, and he knows that it also will have no number that means anything to his computer. He cannot verify anything you say, and knows that any action against you can become an international incident. Because he does not know what to do with you, his most common inclination is to ignore you. Who wants an international incident?

If your tax domicile is in another nation, congress has granted a $72 K exemption from US taxation. There are no computer cross checks, no W-2 forms, no 1099 forms, and no American bank account that can be traced. The IRS bureau-rats have no option but accepting your foreign filing and claims as to income. If you put down that you earned six hundred dollars in the Thailand rice harvest, who can question you? What the IRS bureau-rat knows is what his computer says by checking wage reports, credit checks, bank accounts, state tax returns, etc. If all of these come up clean, he has reached a dead end.

If you wish to be free of all computers, you must not be in even one. That would raise red flags all over the place. The primary requirement of a PPT is to locate assets in another nation (at least in computer records) and generate the total appearance of living in another nation. In order to establish your paper trail, you must:

1. Keep a very low profile. Do not do anything to attract attention.
2. Have very large balls, so that you know your story and stick to it.

One of the very best countries for the PPT is Philippines. Panama, Costa Rica, and Guatemala are also good. The reasons for recommending the Philippines are as follows:

1. It is a 3rd world nation with very little computerization.
2. The US dollar is very welcome.
3. Everyone speaks English.
4. They welcome foreign visitors and have residence status programs involving very little investment (as little as $50 K).
5. They have beautiful beaches and great diving.
6. It is easy to obtain local ID.
7. You can have bank accounts in US dollars, with good interest rates.
8. There is a strong presence of American expatriates.
9. It has few international controls and no national identification.
10. There are mail drops available.
11. It has low to no taxation of foreign income for resident status expatriates.
12. There is no taxation on interest earned by non-resident visitors.

II. Business Status.
Your business personality is always a corporation (or some other legal person) to protect you from liability, suit, taxation, and reporting requirements. This corporation should:
1. Be in some nation outside of the US and Canada;
2. Be low-cost to set up;
3. Not have corporate income tax;
4. Have no reporting burden;
5. Be in a country that has a language other than English as its official language;
6. Possess relative corporate security (nominee directors, bearer shares);
7. Be domiciled in a jurisdiction that tells the US to piss off.

At this time, perhaps the best locale in these above regards is Panama.
You do not want to be president, vice-president, or even director. What you want is to be attorney for the corporation by obtaining a Power of Attorney, “PAT,” from the nominee director(s). With this PAT you have rights to do anything on behalf of the corporation, but be immune from suit. Not only a corporation, but also its officers and directors, can be sued.

A Panamanian corporation has three (3) directors, each of which is can be a Panamanian attorney charging on the order of $50 a year for being director. In exchange for that he agrees to give me an unlimited PAT for the corporation and to sign any corporate document I present to him. As attorney for the corporation you are an employee of the corporation and as such are not responsible for its action. Not only are you not subject to suit, but any suit must be filed in Panama City, in Spanish, using Panamanian attorneys, and be heard by a Panama court that does not have America’s strange concepts of liability.

You completely stonewall most people who want to bring suit, as well as state taxation in entirety. The position of the IRS is that all “US source income” is subject to taxation. The simple truth of the matter is that the courts have not supported that broad an interpretation, but unfortunately these have no effect on the opinions of the IRS.

In order to defeat the IRS, the first thing you do is not obtain an EIN. If you have an EIN you must file a tax return, and anything the IRS wants to challenge becomes tax fraud because you filed a return. You also have the burden of maintaining all records needed for your return and the actual filing of the return. We don’t want an EIN and we are not going to fill out all of those damn reports.

While you cannot open a corporate bank account without an EIN in the US, nor accept Master Card and Visa, you can in nations like Costa Rica and Latvia; they are eager to open your corporate account and clear your Visa and MC items, and don’t give a damn if you have an EIN.
No US entity can file an informational report on your corporation without an EIN number, and if done, the IRS would trash it because their computer will not accept it without the unique key of the EIN. State collectors cannot afford to duplicate the efforts of the IRS, so they simply collect records from the IRS and determine if a federal return is filed from their state. Without any federal return, the state does not know you exist.
The area where no EIN might be a problem is re sale tax, if you need a sales tax ID number. Most people just discover that if they write “none” or “pending” in the box for EIN number they are granted the sales tax number with no problem.

Because the IRS works from three (3) to four (4) years in history, and that whatever they initiate takes about a year to crank up, a further assurance of defeating the IRS is transfer all of the assets of your offshore corporation to a new offshore corporation, while closing all old accounts and opening new ones under the new corporation. The old business personality just fades into the dust and is replaced by a new one every five (5) years, with no connection between them. Then if the IRS chases your old corporation, it has no assets, no cash, and no operating structure because it has been forfeited for non-payment of fees. In every case, your only involvement was as an employee, who can respond only that you do not hold and have never held the records of the corporation.

Thus, your corporation is born out of a few pieces of paper, starts to do business, or steps in to take over an existing market from an existing corporation, banks everything it gets overseas, pays no taxation to anyone and very few fees. At the end of five (5) years it fades away into nothingness and your new personality is another corporation. This offers additional protection because action can be taken only from another nation, in another language, under another set of laws. Any attorney who might be employed to sue you would tell his client that the client can go bankrupt running back and forth to Walla-Walla Land for hearings and resets on hearings, and can lose the case through failure to show up at a hearing.
This business personality helps protect your other personalities because it has all of the income. Income passes only to the other two personalities as needed, and in ways to minimize the tax and legal liability. Even the bureau-rats can find you only through their paper trail, so by having this personality as an overseas corporation you have broken a major portion of the paper trail.

III. Expatriate American Personality.
This is your second American personality. This guy used to live in the US, but became tired of it all and moved to Walla-Walla Land. To substantiate this, you build a paper trail from Walla-Walla Land to replace the paperwork trail that disappeared from the US when you moved your revenue to the business personality. If you just disappear, you have generated a lot of interest. If you simply change your status to one that is of little or no interest to the IRS and is natural and normal, but difficult to verify, you have placed yourself into a wonderful position vis-à-vis the IRS as well as with anyone else who wants a chunk of your cash.

If you disappear, the IRS computers will put up a flag that says that you just quit filing tax returns. If they think you are a tax protestor, they will want to squash you. At this time, the IRS will scan all its own computers, as well as social security computers and the like to see if there are any informational reports on you. Then it will take a look at the reports from your bank to see what the action has been for the past year. It will consult all the credit bureaus to see what your monthly payments were and what income and what source you were reporting to creditors. These computer probes can go on and on.

Although the US taxes its citizens for foreign-earned income, once you cross that border the common key needed for computer tracking disappears. The US also gives you a $72 K exemption, which applies only to earned income (wages paid to you or income from a business). To meet this exemption one must satisfy several requirements:

1. For one full year you must spend at least 330 days outside the US;
2. Each additional year you must maintain your domicile outside the US.

Of course we can “return home” for “visits,” but we continue to earn income and be domiciled outside of the United States, which we prove by creating a paper trial that shows every bureau-rat that we continue to live and work in some foreign nation. Bureau-rats have no desire to bother anyone overseas because there is no percentage and they have only limited success. In civil matters you cannot be served because they do not want to go to the time, expense, and bother needed to serve you in the back woods of some third world nation. Your paperwork—and therefore all of the data on the bureau-rats’ computers—all show that you live in a house in Walla-Walla Land. If someone wants to serve you, just drop them a note and tell them that you hunt crocks for a living and that your house is 57 Km back on the south channel, in the swamp, in an area with lots of giant crocks to hunt. Just drop by and serve me any old time.

If you are still in the IRS at all, you can sit at home and fill out your taxes, but list your address in Walla-Walla Land. If you fill out a schedule C, you can put down anything you want—such as the mileage you go to sell your crock skins. If they don’t believe you, they can just come on out to the shack in the swamp and have a peak at those records any time they wish.

In summary, as long as you can manage to live your life on less then 72K cash to you, you are never again going to pay a penny income tax to the IRS, and you are going to pay SS on whatever you want to pay it on. All you need is a few services in a third-world nation and the ability to do some creative travel.

IV. Third Personality.
This is who you always were. You might go to work every day, but you work for the first personality and the third personality has no real income. Over time this personality fades away. The documents and computer records show the expatriate personality as the primary personality. The old personality has no W2, no 1099, no credit, no income, no assets, no expenses, and no payments. He is a totally free body with no reporting burden, no one tracking him, no one wanting to tax him, and no one wanting anything from him.

If this 3rd personality has any interaction with government, it can choose to be the expatriate personality home on leave. If this personality is stopped by a police officer, he can present the fading East Podunk state drivers license of the third personality or the Walla-Walla Land DL of the second personality. It doesn’t matter because the car is owned and insured by, and registered to, the first personality, which is a corporation.
If you are already entangled, liquidate your estate and move a few hundred miles away. They will start looking for you, but in Walla-Walla Land where all the paper trail leads and takes them. At this point no one will have any interest in the 3rd personality, who is thereby free to go about his daily life in unfettered by all those who otherwise want a piece of him. Of course the IRS will be interested in the 1st personality, the corporation, but by the time they figure out it exists, it will fade away and be replaced by a new corporation. It also has absolutely no paper trail to your third personality and little trail, with no common key and outside of the US records, to tie it to the second personality.

Start using the Internet to get to know others of a similar mind and trade items with them. If you are in Jakarta, bop into the government offices and fill out the form for a sole proprietorship. For a few cents you have a very nice official document, with all of the proper stamps and such, telling one and all that you are the proud owner of “Beanie’s Whorehouse, Ice Cream Parlor, and Child Day Care Center” in Jakarta. This is nothing but a piece of paper, but if correctly fed into the American bureau-rat record system it becomes truth because that is what the computer says.

As you travel you can visit automotive junkyards where, on the presentation of foreign identification, you can purchase a set of registration places from a wrecked car, for a few dollars. You might pick up foreign license places from Finland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Thailand, and who knows what. A few minutes with a desktop publisher can generate a nice registration document to match the place and “Register” your car for petty American police officers that have no idea what a registration from the Philippines may look like.

V. Tactics
A. In the beginning
In order to implement the above, understanding of concrete details for tangibly proceeding is essential. Some of these are as follows:

1. Scrap the job, i.e. employment, i.e. working for someone/something else. It is an entangling, high profile, entrapped position that leaves you confined in a government-scrutinized and regulated cage. Make money out of yourself, by your own efforts and creations. This begins with the process outlined above, i.e. forming an offshore company in a low- or non-tax country that friendly to business and will not tax any earnings your company makes outside of that country. This country should not be under the thumb of the US, and preferably is a third world—or quasi third world—country that is not riddled with computerized record keeping on every knit-picking thing their citizens do. This company should be owned by bearer shares. Your position should be as attorney-in-fact for the corporation, and therefore an employee, not an officer, and not accountable for the actions, books, and records of the corporation. This corporation does business in the US without any EIN number, running all income—at least checks, money orders, and credit cards—through a far-away bank, such as in Latvia.
2. Your banking should be of two kinds:

a. In the country of your expatriate domicile, e.g. Philippines, as a minimalist account for paying bills, a few living expenses, etc.

2. In some completely different country from the US, your expatriate country, and the domicile of any of your companies, i.e. in a country like Latvia, Andorra, and other countries with secrecy, no affection for the US, that will clear your credit card accounts, issue anonymous credit/debit cards, etc.

To make the break you should undertake the following:
1. Quit your job and become self-employed. You don’t want a job; you want income, i.e. money. So, go make money by doing your own thing.
2. Move to a cash basis. Pay off your debts and wait to make purchases until you can afford it (emergencies excluded, of course).
3. Be an intelligent consumer. Don’t buy what you don’t need, don’t try to “keep up with the Jones,” and shop around for the best prices on things you purchase.
4. When you buy a car, choose a good, dependable model that gets good gas mileage and buy it when it is a year old, after the depreciation. A car with about 15K miles on it for less than ¾ of the cost of a new car is a very economical way to go. Look for such things as full-size station wagons in the one-year old market.
5. Carry around a pocket notebook and write down everything you spend. At the end of a week, total what you spent and determine to reduce your expenditures by 5%. Then look at the items you can do without and don’t purchase them. Save the money instead. It will add up.
Remember that you are not going to be free without freedom from the IRS.
When you start a business, keep in mind the following:

1. Choose a business that can start small and grow open-endedly.
2. It should not be capital or machinery intensive, best if you use the internet as you store and sell information, provide referral services, or some other information based business. Off-shore internet casinos and betting companies do very well.
3. That can operate from a rented location or your home.
4. The equipment should be rented or leased.
5. A service-oriented or retail business can be OK.
6. Pick a business that requires no license or permits.
7. Deal in small dollar items, in cash, or larger if commerce is over the internet and you have the proper monetary structure.
8. The business should fill a niche in the market, with no direct competition but enough of a potential customer base to prosper.

B. Creating the Business Personality A corporation is a remarkable invention of the mind. It is the product of thousands of years of law. As an abstract creation, existing only in the imaginary, it has a plastic immortality and life of its own. You may be involved with a corporation, but it is not you. No one can take your property for the actions of the corporation and no one can take the property of the corporation for your actions.
In most jurisdictions a corporation has its own set of rules, but most of the rights and responsibilities of a real person. It has officers, directors, employees, and stockholders. The officers make the day-to-day decisions and sign documents on behalf of the corporation. The directors control the officers. The employees are worker bees with no legal liability for the corporation. They have no decision-making capacity. Unlike an officer and director, an employee may never be sued for any corporate activity. The stockholders put up the money, own the corporation, can hire and fire the directors, and suffer the ultimate risk of the venture.

Internationally, several jurisdictions have created some unique features for their corporations in order to attract people to incorporate there. This generates money and business for the jurisdiction. One such feature is nominee directors, who are local professionals—in many cases attorneys—who agree for a fee to list their names on the letterhead of the corporation as a director and promise to earn their fee by doing exactly nothing. A director may be the subject of a suit against his person over his decisions or actions. The director, however, assures you that he will not take any action or make any decision other than protecting you and the corporation against any decisions he might make, by tendering his signed but undated resignation. In many cases nominee directors also serve as the officers of the corporation. In this capacity they also agree to take no action and make no decisions. This reduces their function to placing a signature on any document you hand them. Most jurisdictions permit these directors to delegate that capacity. This feature can be a goldmine for you.

Bearer stock certificates are wonderful, enabling anonymous ownership of the company. In the US, normal electronic registration of stock ownership is even more visible to federal agencies than paper registration. Bearer shares can change hands in an unreported, unregulated, and unknown market. The only thing that is known is that when one wants to claim the privileges of a stockholder, one may do so by presenting the physical certificate. Dividends are claimed, and voting is accomplished, by presenting the stock. Whoever physically possesses the paper owns it. Until you want to claim some right of ownership, no one—not even the directors—know you are an owner, and once you make such a claim there is no assurance that the next day you are no longer an owner. You can also delegate authority by providing the stock certificate to your agent. This drives US bureau-rats and tax collectors nuts.

The 3rd feature of many offshore jurisdictions is the concept of attorney for the corporation. You do not need a degree, license, etc., to be an attorney for the corporation. All you need is PAT from the directors, designating your authority. In this scenario, you can undertake all the activities of the corporation but legally be only an employee. This not only renders you immune from suit and prosecution for any acts of the corporation, but also makes people more reluctant to sue because they will think you are an attorney.

A 4th advantage of many jurisdictions is that they do not regulate where the stockholders’ meetings may be held, or where the records of the corporation must be kept. In Panama, for instance, the only restriction on the stockholders’ meeting is that it be held at least once per year. If you have enough shares present it is quite possible to get a unanimous vote on a matter in your morning shower or beach house. In Panama the only restriction on the records is that the secretary must be able to tell where they are. So, if the records of your corporation are archived in a steamer trunk, in a bedroom of a house located 10 kilometers from the nearest road, in a rural, jungle, swamp, or mountainous area of the Philippines, that is what the secretary will report if queried under court order. The fact that this house has no address or phone, and is located on a footpath with no name, doesn’t matter; you can give a rough description of the house. So even if a US bureau-rat secures a court order, which must first get a Panama court order to extract the information, what he is then left as an option is to wander around the jungles of the Philippines at the expense of the American taxpayers. We all wish him good luck.

Thus, summarizing a perfect dream corporation that is to be our business personality, we could do so as follows:

1. It is domiciled offshore from the US;
2. The jurisdiction of domicile has no corporation income tax;
3. The jurisdiction of domicile permits bearer shares;
4. There is no regulation re stockholder meetings;
5. There is no regulation re the form or location of corporation records;
6. Nominee directors are permitted;
7. The jurisdiction of domicile supports full rights under a PAT;
8. An attorney for the corporation may delegate agency to assistants;
9. Incorporation costs are low (usually under $500 US);
10. The annual fees are low;
11. The language of the jurisdiction of domicile is other than English (to complicate matters for US bureau-rats);
12. The nation of domicile has a long history of responding to demands for information with the single-finger salute.

At this time, the premier locale in fulfilling the above requirements is Panama, with Liberia a close second.
You do not need to spend a lot of time and money to go physically to the country where you wish to incorporate. Get on the net and find such matters. You can order a complete Panama corporation in English without ever setting foot in Panama. You can also compare prices. Some sources will provide a legal corporation with the name of your choice, complete with opened and ready bank account. It is well to remember that in this day and age, finding a bank account is far more difficult than simply forming the corporation.

As for banking locales, forget Switzerland for the present, since the opening balances required are on the order of a half million dollars, and will sell you out for the reward on any excuse. The Caribbean islands have some bank secrecy and will open an account for a more modest starting balance, such as $50K, but may require two (2) banking references.

Find banks that are hungry for hard currency and very flexible about opening accounts. Some of the Eastern European countries of the former Soviet Union are good candidates, such as Latvia. If some of their fees are high, then take/use only the services you really need.
If you want to do business in the US via this corporation and banking, you can engage in such steps as the following:

1. Establish a “virtual office,” complete with address, e-mail, fax, phone, etc.
2. Rend a mail drop as the address to which your office sends correspondence.
3. Get a pager that you can obtain for cash in advance and instruct the office to beep you when you have messages (if you wish), or simply have the office accumulate the messages and relay them to you all in one fell swoop by a mutually agreeable means. You may then deal with them on your turf, at your leisure.
4. If need for a vehicle is involved, buy one for cash. Ditto for as much other equipment you need as possible.
5. Advertise at free distribution points, e.g. supermarkets, Wal-Mart, Pennysaver newspapers, etc.
6. Everything you have printed has the corporation name on it, and the particulars of the virtual office, and whatever name you wish to use for yourself when you deal with people.

You can now function with no registered presence in the US and have no physical location that can show up on any computer. Never put your name on anything related to the business, unless you put it on as “attorney for the corporation.” Then you can do business in a manner such as the following:

1. If the customer pays by credit card, run it through the clearing service in your Latvia bank (the bad news is that this can take a lot of time, perhaps six months, depending on your deposit with the bank, etc. The good news is that only a part of your income is by credit card.). Send checks once a week by international express mail or the like, together with all of the credit card slips. The cash goes into your cash box, with the hope that it is sufficient to run the company. If not, get a Visa card from your Latvian bank (or an anonymous debit card from elsewhere) that can be used to make purchases for the corporation.
2. If you are sued, you tell the prospective litigants that they must serve your corporation at its Panamanian address, in Spanish, using a Panama Attorney. If they do, your attorney in Panama will immediately respond that the Panama court has jurisdiction. The best scenario is that the US and Panama argue about jurisdiction. When Panama wins, the litigants must physically appear in Panama and bring suit in a court where they cannot speak the language, where they must argue their case under the laws of Panama, and where you have brought counter-suit for legal expenses.
3. If you are confronted by a US bureau-rat, your response is, “Hey, I just work here. The boss is at this address in Panama and you can write him if you wish.” The director responds, probably in Spanish, assuring that bureau-rat that all required permits have been obtained from Panama. They can correspond for a year, while you get on with your life. The correspondence from the director is not answered for at least two (2) weeks, and then by the lowest class of international mail. You can send your mail as an attachment to an e-mail, have your director print and mail it from Panama, or wherever.
4. By using a maildrop as your only contact point, you are difficult to find by any US bureau-rat in the first place. So in person, your answer is always, “Talk to the boss.” In writing, it is by letters you draft, e-mail to Panama, and have printed and mailed by slow international mail from there after a minimum of two (2) weeks.
5. As for the IRS, at some point they are likely to become aware that someone is doing business here without an EIN number. With no American based bank accounts, no physical business location, etc., it is going to be a long time before the IRS gets on to you. Since the IRS always works at least three (3) years after a matter, it will be an absolute minimum of three (3) years before they start looking for you. At this point, you can disband the corporation and transfer all assets to a new corporation. The old corporation then responds that they no longer do business with US citizens and have sold any operation that ever did business with citizens of the US. This letter also clearly states that you have “No US business location, but have provided services to US citizens from an international location.”
6. Re the above IRS scenario, only two (2) possible results exist:

a. Either IRS will discover that there is no percentage in following up on the matter and drop it; or,

2. It will decide to pursue the issue, in which case it will follow its standard practice.
6. For the IRS, the watchword is, “Follow the money.” It will then go to your banking nation and request information on your bank account, where the response will be the one-finger salute. If it knows that your corporation is in Panama, it will ask for information on the corporation and will again get the one-finger salute. If it decides to play hardball and asks the DOJ to declare that you might be engaged in money laundering, Panama will provide limited information. What the IRS will discover is that the revenue is not consistent with drug sales and try to obtain corporate records.
7. The directors of the corporation tell the IRS that the records are in the hands of the attorney for the corporation or some such, and that the directors do not know if there are any other bank accounts, any other records of the corporation, who the stockholders are, or even who is handling the corporation for the attorney.
8. If you are smart, on the first letter from the IRS you moved any cash balance beyond a few dollars as well as anything the IRS could seize or place a lien on. If things continue beyond a few letters, fold up the corporation. The records may then be legally destroyed or moved. You leave the IRS chasing a ghost. Happy trails, IRS.

Superior alternative to physical US presence and ordinary business here (e.g. retail, or wholesale, involving physical things and/or tangible services):
Establish an international Internet-based business by the following means:

1. Secure phone lines to your location in names having nothing to do with you.
2. Make all of your Internet access anonymous, so no possibility exists for anything that is done on your computer to be traced to you or your physical location.
3. Have non-US web sites and e-mail addresses, with no connection to this country (e.g. no administrative offices), e.g. Anguilla, Dominica, etc.
4. Do all your arrangements via offshore corporations, entities, and banks.
5. Take credit card payments, checks, etc., and process them through offshore banks, e.g. your bank in Latvia, etc.
6. Draw cash from your corporate accounts via anonymous debit cards, preferably after cycling cash from offshore banks where you have corporate accounts that received the funds, to other accounts in other jurisdictions, and preferably transfer those assets via interbank means that avoid the exchanges that operate through central banks. E.g., all dollars, regardless of where they are in the world, go through NY, unless they are within some interbank system whereby the transfers are internal bookkeeping ledger transfers and not wire transfers internationally between banks, currencies, and jurisdictions.
7. Do all of your banking, and other business, by encrypted e-mail.
8. Have absolutely nothing in your name, no income, no ownership of anything, no paper trail of any kind to your business.

C. Expatriate personality
It is possible to establish a major part of this personality by mail and Internet, but you must be physically present to receive government-issued documents. Once you have them, however, there is no proof of how much time you spend physically in the US.
One of our objectives is the creation of at least one bank account that is our secure stash for money. This must be in a nation with some level of banking privacy, and even better, in a bank that has no tract to our US citizenship. This should be savings accounts and CDs, simple accounts that pay acceptable interest rates, can be controlled by fax, are in stable currencies, and which have no relationship to our US citizenship, PP, or any other US-issued document.

In addition, we need a secondary bank account with check-writing privilege, in our expatriate nation, which is public and can be tied to our US ID. We use this to pay our bills and let the US know that we have it, thereby tying us to that nation and implying that we reside there.
Third, we need at least one government-issued ID from our expatriate nation. The best document, because it is a photo document and easy to obtain, is a drivers license, “DL.” In most nations, all you have to do is tell them that you are going to be there long enough to purchase a car and they will encourage—indeed almost force you—to obtain a local DL.

The fourth requirement is obtaining additional identification items, which will serve to verify your identity but need not be government-issued. These can include an international DL to go with foreign DL, membership cards for almost everything, including private clubs, the local equivalent of the AAA, secured credit cards for overseas accounts, or even ATM cards that look like credit cards.

The fifth objective is the creation of the US record of our expatriate status. This includes registration at the US embassy as an expatriate in our chosen nation and picking up the proper forms for IRS filings from that foreign nation. Remember that in relationship to the US government we want to make as many records as possible indicating that you are an expatriate in this foreign land.

The sixth task is creating our address in the foreign land, through an agreement with a mail forwarding service (most of which include phone and fax numbers). We might even want to build an Internet presence in that nation, through a service agreement with a local service provider (this is also included with some forwarding services). With the more modern services it is possible to set up an account that will receive mail, scan it, and then attach the scan to an e-mail message to you. You then write a response, attach it to an e-mail, have the response printed in your expatriate nation and mailed. If a phone call is received for you, a message is taken, transcribed to an e-mail, and sent to you. You can also purchase a small device that totally blocks caller ID and return the call from the US, or use untraceable phone cards.

The seventh item on the agenda is accumulating local items that might be useful in the future. For example, in the Philippines and many other nations there are shops that you can walk into, tell them your license plate number, and they make license plates for your car. You can have some fun with those plates in the US.

Now is the time to collect letterheads from the American Embassy in your chosen land, as well as one or more agency there. In third-world nations it is easy to have rubber stamps created that would raise eyebrows in the US, but are meaningless in Walla-Walla Land, such as a US temporary residence stamp for our camouflage PP.

The eighth item is having a really good vacation and enjoying ourselves and our new freedom. The Philippines makes a good expatriate nation for reasons that were cited above.

Before embarking on the above, there are things we must do here in the US. First of all, start making income without a job and free from the taxman (as discussed earlier). Know where your cash is coming from.

You will need passports. One option for obtaining a PP is start with a US PP and use it for obtaining a foreign PP.
Obtain banking documents for opening our stash account, which are used one time only, and only for opening our primary stash for money, with no connection whatsoever to the US. These can be “banking” or “camouflage” PPs sold by a number of groups. These packages usually come with secondary backup ID, such as a DL from that nation. Hold these documents as backup for need later. Order these with similar sounding name to your own, but slightly different. Spell your last name differently and make your first name your middle name or nickname. Create a sloppy, illegible signature. Order the PP, backup ID, and have it ready. Carry it around, bend it, etc., to eliminate the “brand new” look.

Compile information on your expatriate nation. Make sure that official ID is actually issued to foreign nationals, and that expatriate residence is permitted for Americans. Also, if the nation doesn’t speak English, learn the language. Check into the kinds of bank accounts that are available, as you will need a checking account. In short, make sure that any nation you might elect can meet your needs to accomplish the scenario you wish to achieve.

Another advantage to the Philippines is that they have a program to permit you to buy a resident visa, for a relatively low buy-in, which gives you all of the documents you need, all real, all issued by a nation recognized by the US, and all of which can be verified. We want to make the bureau-rats happy, after all, so we provide them with what they take as gospel truth—official records on computers.

The way this program works is by converting dollars into a peso account, $50 K if you are over 50 and $75 K if you are under 50, that works like an IRA. It must operate as a fund, but can be self-directed. You invest the money for the first six (6) months in Philippines government bonds and thereafter in any Philippines based investment (even if it is the purchase of your own condo). You receive resident visa, unlimited entries and exits from the Philippines, and an exemption from taxation on any non-Philippines based income. The earnings on your investment in the Philippines are subject to Philippines taxation of about 20%, but since the interest rates are higher, your net after-tax income will be about the same as US gross before taxes on similar income. The only risk is the fluctuation of the Peso, which has been as much as 25% in a year but is fairly stable over the long term.

If you can’t afford this program to start, start in the Philippines anyway and get the visa when you can. We can create the appearance of this resident status (without doing it), but for around $50 K you can have the real thing with never any worry about the paperwork. The Philippines guarantees repatriation of any investment and earnings at any time you want to turn in your visa. I don’t know of anyone who has lost money on a five (5) year investment. Check out a Philippines REIT secured by 1st mortgages paying 12-15% per year. The residency program is looked on as a long-term program in the Philippines.

Once we have our banking PP, information lists, and understanding, we begin building the paper trail. These are as follows:

1. Buy a ticket to your expatriate nation; be very open and blatant about it, as you want it to be as well known as possible. If you have a US credit card, do it on that. The ticket is part of the paper trail. It will be the last use of the US credit card. Purchase the ticket from a non-US location and a return to that location. Canada is good. Purchase two (2) distinct tickets: one to Canada, one-way; one (1) from Canada to the Philippines, round trip. Fly to Canada and then catch the plane to the Philippines. Have your PP stamped going into Canada (they don’t usually do it, but will if you ask). Get your PP stamped in Manila. You will receive a 21-day visa automatically. Buy your tickets from a consolidator for much less than a travel agent; fly off-season; check out “courier” flights from Vancouver (no luggage is permitted on these but you can save about $400 and you can take a carry-on bag).
2. On the return trip, fly back to Canada and clear immigration and customs there. Normally Canada does not stamp a US PP. This is best, but if they do, no harm. In any case you did not fly into the US. Take a bus to a near-by American city, e.g. from Toronto to Niagara Falls on the Casino bus. Immigration is not very interested in Canadians traveling on day-trips to the US and Americans can cross the border on only US ID, such as a DL or State ID. The point is to exit on your PP and return on other ID that does not involve scanning your PP. The scan is the record of your return; if your PP is not scanned, you have not returned.
3. Metro Manila is only a transfer point. Go to small towns 50 miles away that is not full of bureau-rats and where a $20 bill buys a lot. Arrange for a Philippines DL. This takes about 2 months and requires pick-up in person. Give a letter to someone and have him or her pick it up for you and mail it to you. Your mail service might be able to do this for a minor fee. The Land Transport Office issues the DL, and any taxi driver can take you there.
4. Establish a mail drop, which will be your main contact in your expatriate nation. It is best to make arrangements before you leave the US, and then go there and meet the people. The mail services in Paper PT are privacy oriented and you may feel perfectly free to tell them that you are creating a paper residency in the Philippines.
5. The Philippines operates like Europe re license plates. The government issues you a number and you go to a private business to have the plates made. You want to go home with a set of Philippines plates. You will not have matching registration, but do some creative work with your desk-top publishing based on having inspected copies of Philippines registration when there. In fact, if you have the right contacts you can buy a real Philippines auto registration for $20.00.
6. The US Government encourages American citizens living in another nation to register with the embassy. Stop by the embassy and fill out their form. Give your expatriate nation mail drop as your address. This gets you into official databases as living in your expatriate nation (making the bureau-rats happy). If the embassy says anything about your 21-day visa, tell them that your PRA visa is pending and will be approved in a few days.
7. As you wander around being a tourist, join things that supply membership cards—beach club, country club, etc. Get a video-rental card. You want a wallet-full of such documents, befitting someone who lives there full time. In the Philippines most memberships cost less than $10; many are free.
8. Open two (2) bank accounts: the first is your secure stash account, which you open in another country (either in or not your expatriate nation) using your banking PP that has a different name than you. Get back-up ID for this name/PP. In the Philippines, avoid the Philippines National Bank (the bureau-rats will eat you up); go with banks like MetroBank, which is private, big, secure, and has a good track record. Ask for the branch manager, and tell him that you want to move funds by fax and ask for the fax number. He will smile in anticipation of receiving lots of money. If you are a westerner act like you are wealthy and they will invite you to the manager’s office where you can drink coffee from a china cup and saucer while the manager sends runners to get your business done. If you open an account for $25-30 K it is a million pesos, and a million of anything gets the respect of a banker. At this level they roll out the red carpet.
9. The second bank account in your expatriate nation is for making payments to the US. We want any transactions that are recorded on a computer in the US to come from this account. Payment with these checks is part of your expatriate structure. You want a checking account, in USD, with an ATM card. Use your US PP and correct name. In the Philippines, PCI bank is good. Their ATM cards work well in US machines and they have a USD checking account; opening balance if $500. Open in crisp new $100 bills.
10. In the Philippines you cannot receive an international DL until you have your Philippines DL. This is not a problem because there are many firms that will sell you an international DL through the mail. Although there is no such thing as a Philippines National ID card, the secondary market thinks that such a document should exist, so they produce their own.
11. In the Philippines, only about 80% of the people have a BC, only about 20% have a DL, and about 3% have a phone. Having been through a dictatorship, the people mistrust government. The government is corrupt at the bureau-rat level, and a $10 bill goes a long way. I have been told that for $1000 a select bureau-rat can provide a total citizenship package, complete with backdated BC and PP. They generate a dual citizenship, being an American born in the Philippines, which works very well for those born in the era of 1945-1952 because the nation was torn by war, had little money, and few records were kept. They now have programs for retroactive re-creation of records from that period. There were lots of Americans there then.
12. Petty crime is rampant in the Philippines, not violent crime. It is wise to carry a money belt and stay off the back streets in the later hours. There are enough Americans in the Philippines that they don’t draw attention, and about 80% of the population speaks English.
13. Finally, one reason so many Americans live in the Philippines is that the USD goes a long way. There are many American expatriates there, and you can get a college education in freedom by spending 3-4 days working the bars and buying drinks for Americans. Freedom-loving Americans like the fact that the vices are not only legal, but also normal, and outside of the large cities there are no traffic laws/cops and you can live for months without seeing a single bureau-rat. If you want to see one, you stand in line at some office. If the IRS shows up to audit you, send the house-helper out to tell the neighbors to strip his car.
14. Religious freedom is great, and missionaries are welcome and granted valid visa and expatriate status. Under US law ministers have special tax exemptions so consider this.

When you are all done, fly back to Canada or Mexico and cross back into the US with no record at the border. Bureau-rats believe their computers, and if the computers say that you are still in the Philippines, Costa Rica, or Walla-Walla Land, then you are. It does not matter if you drive, ride, or walk over that final border to the US, so long as you cross it without presenting your PP. In almost all border cities, you will find local use transport that the border agents rarely look at because the only people who use it are “day trippers.”

Your next tax return with the IRS (if any) is international, via your expatriate address, claiming your expatriate exemption for money earned in a foreign nation. Remember that in the US the corporation, not you, earns all revenue. The corporation then pays your bank account in Walla-Walla Land and you receive the income tax-free. Use checks drawn on your expatriate bank account to pay your bills and give each creditor a change of address to your expatriate address. Most will want to close your account, but that is OK. Use the ATM card to draw cash and learn to live without the credit card. The corporation will also have an ATM/debit card that can be used in most cases where you want to order something by mail and need a credit card. Making money flow this way saves you a bundle by not paying the IRS.

The IRS has the right to demand copies of your tax return in your nation of expatriate status. These tax returns need not have the exact same amount of net income listed because the different nations will have different accounting rules. It is unlikely you will be asked for them, but faithfully pay your Philippines taxation—but only on sums deposited in the public bank account, and keep those sums very low. Salt away most of your money in your secure stash account, in another name, possibly another nation, and is not taxed by anyone.

D. The third personality
At this point we have our business personality, which is generating revenue and profit. Profits flow into the offshore stash, leaving operating capital to work with. Our expatriate personality has been created and the minimum amount of paperwork exists to show that we have left the shores of the US and are now living in a grass shack in Walla-Walla Land, or are a missionary in Costa Rica, or are running a bar in the Philippines. As an expatriate you have the right to come home for a visit once in a while: for 30 days in the 1st year, and thereafter for up to 180 days so long as you maintain your domicile in the other nation.

Exactly what you do with the 3rd personality depends on your situation and desires. By this process you have no problems with credit, bureau-rats, IRS, or anyone else. You have sliced out a domain of freedom, and you let the old personality that was entangled and high profile fade away. If you are basically free and clear, the following steps can be appropriate:

1. File your income tax as schedule C, via IRS international, claiming expatriate exemption.
2. When your DL comes up for renewal, fail to renew it and drive on you expatriate license. Get an IDP.
3. If you are in an area with state income tax, stop filing.
4. When the time comes to trade in the car, sell it and purchase a new one in the name of the corporation; insure and license it in the name of the corporation. Use your mail drop corporate address for registration and title.
5. If you are established with a doctor that has your SS# or insurance number, switch to a new doctor and do not give him any SS#. Just tell him that you have none.
6. Send a change of address to each credit card company and give them your expatriate address. Most will close your account, but that is fine since you want to close them all anyway and use only the ATM/credit card re your corporate account.
7. From your business you are putting your cash income in the cash box for expenses and spending, and depositing checks and credit cards in the offshore account.
8. Transfer just enough from the corporate account to your expatriate account to let you write checks to pay your bills.
9. Anything in the US that requests your SS# you ignore. Never again give it out to anyone—ever. The answer is NO.
10. As soon as possible, move from the physical address shown on the computer records.
11. Drop your magazine subscriptions. If you must subscribe, do so in the corporation name.
12. By the end of a couple of years, you should receive no mail addressed to you and should not still be doing business with anyone that had your SS#.

If you are not free and clear, i.e. entangled with the IRS, child support, or some bureau-rats, you must make a more rapid, and drastic, divestiture of the old life. You must relocate immediately and leave no trace to follow. You must leave your old self at the old location and be a new, expatriate self at the new location. In such case, the following might be appropriate:

1. If you own a home, you are going to lose it. If there is no lien on it, sell it. If there is a lien on it, then walk away from it. In most US cities there are sources that will buy your house in 48 hours. Use them if you are in a major hurry. If your situation is such that IRS is making threats against you, or you just hit with child support that you know you will not pay, take a few months and dump the house.
2. At your new location, rent a house or apartment in the name of the corporation. Tell the landlord it is for employee housing. Pay for it with a direct payment from the corporation and keep your name out of it. When you sign the lease, sign as agent for the corporation. You will pay a larger deposit, but there is no trace to you. Get utilities and even the phone in the corporation name. You will live there, but the name on all the records is the corporation. Naturally there is no change of address for you from anywhere to anywhere.
3. Your car is a neon arrow pointing at you. Sell it if you have clear title, or if you are making payments, park it at the bank and leave it. If you are going to hang onto it, send the state a change of address to your expatriate address. As fast as possible, transfer (sell) the car to the corporate name or get a new car in the corporate name. Insure the car in the corporate name, via a new agent and company. Register the car in the corporate name.
4. The credit bureaus are also neon arrows pointing at you. If you are ethical, cut up your credit cards immediately. If you are less than ethical, draw cash advances and max out the cards, and then cut them up. Do not send a change of address—just ignore the credit card companies.
5. Since medical records are in databases all over, due to protecting doctors from malpractice claims and insurance companies from false claims, you must cut off all relationship with your doctor. Otherwise, the database will locate you as easily as the credit bureaus. Get a new doctor. Give him your expatriate information and no SS#. If he won’t treat you without your giving an SS#, get another doctor. Or make up a number, starting with 500 (since there are no SS#s issued that start with “500”).
6. Do not move your magazine subscriptions. Get new subscriptions, at the new address, in the name of the corporation. The point is to sever all connection between the old and new you.

If you are begin ground down by the bureau-rats, for whom impoverishing you and ruining your life provide them with satisfaction and job security, the best thing you can do is just fold up your tents and walk away. Start a new life, in a new location, with absolutely nothing in your name. Put everything in the corporate name. Pay every item possible out of the corporate accounts. Get down to paying the food store with the point of sale from the corporation. Just fail to exist. Do absolutely nothing that involves a federal identification and buy everything with cash.
If you do this you totally freeze out the bureau-rats and the taxman. Go about a good life and just fail to inform them that you exist. Fail to show up in any database that can tell them where you are or give them any information about you. Disappear completely from the radar screen and you are invisible. For bureau-rats, the radar screen is their computer, and all of the records it contains. If you are not there, you don’t exist. Out of sight, out of mind.

In short, your 3rd personality must disconnect from the system. The only thing that varies is the speed and urgency of the disconnection. You must break each and every thread that can be traced with a common computer key, and replace that with a new thread that leads only to the offshore corporation or to the expatriate self. Without the computers, the only way that they can make a connection is if you find yourself in a situation where you are physically in police custody and are being fingerprinted. Go about your life, enjoy yourself, live a full and complete life, and just do not put your SSN and name in American databases. Make sure that every time you show up in a database, it is as your corporation or your expatriate self. Rotate the corporations on a five-year basis such that even the corporation does not have sufficient life to attract attention.

E. Integration and use of personalities
So, we have three (3) distinct personalities, which exist in parallel. These must be used to work for your life, to make money, be free from taxation, free from the bureau-rats, and free from the US court system.

Your personality who is an offshore businessman runs your daily business, earns revenue, and stashes it away safe from the knowledge and access of bureau-rats. It has no need to maintain any “books and records” for the IRS, or have an office, an accountant, or an attorney. This is because this personality is the attorney for the offshore corporation, owned by bearer shares. Your name appears nowhere on any of the registered documents re this corporation. You are an employee, and our title must not indicate any decision-making capability, such as President, Vice President, etc. We should be a “salesman” or “branch manager.” If the corporation has any US address, it is a mail drop. Telephone is via a virtual office or answering service. Use pre-paid phone calls, or even pre-paid cell phones that are leased in the name of the corporation and are used as the corporate phone.
The corporation owns any property in the US. Your name appears nowhere on any title of any property. If we plan to keep this system running for a long time, it is best to have two (2) foreign corporations—one (1) to operate a business and one (1) to own property. This will make termination of the business personality easier, because it is not entangled with property.

The corporation does all banking in some friendly nation, one other than the country of incorporation. This account should be created by some service other than the service that created the corporation. All checks and credit cards are run through this account. Any cost for the corporation is paid by check from the corporate account, by wire transfer from the corporate account, or in cash withdrawn from the corporate account by ATM, or debit card.

The corporation operates your business, and carefully structures itself to avoid having a US business location and creating any public record of its existence. After about five (5) years, that corporation is terminated and replaced with a new one.

The 2nd personality is your expatriate personality, your original or existing name/identity, which exists primarily to bring you freedom from the intervention of the US bureau-rats. This is a paper personality only, and must create a paper trail that the bureau-rat can follow, but which demonstrates in a convincing way that you are in another nation and beyond his clutches.

The expatriate personality has a mail address and bank account in some nation that is friendly to the creation of that personality. It pays its debts using checks drawn on the public bank account in that expatriate nation, and maintains a right to exist within that nation. This might be through a legal residence visa, or any other way that permits it to work on a legal basis in or from that nation.

This expatriate personality has acquired and uses ID from its expatriate nation. It holds a DL and ideally other photo ID from that nation. It registers with the US Embassy in that nation as an expatriate and files its US tax returns via that nation. This personality is very public about being in that nation and takes every opportunity to create records of residence in or from that nation. Checks from that bank account are used for paying personal expenses and debts. Cash may be drawn by using ATM machines. Expenses are minimized because all primary assets are owned by and paid by the corporate personality.

The 3rd personality is what is left after we take the workplace pressure and the bureau-rat pressure out of life. This can now be very enjoyable since we are not obligated to what our boss or some bureau-rat wants. This personality has no government-issued documents, or, if so, they are renewed in a non-US jurisdiction. This personality has no credit, holds no licenses or permits, has no property registered or titled in its name. It is a free body with no computer track or records to lead to it. [This article does not discuss name changes, which are possible—including obtaining foreign ID in a new name of your choice.]

With rare exceptions (i.e. only if you have legally and officially opted out of the system and are recognized as being out), being right does not protect you in the US. Only invisibility protects you. Never count on being right protecting you; be totally invisible instead. Some practical approaches for achieving this are:

1. Everything that leaves a record, do in the name of your corporation; for everything else, use cash.
2. Keep under—don’t be ostentatious in lifestyle (i.e. fancy cars, clothes, jewelry, etc.). Remember the wise words of Lao-tzu: “Whereas the man with insight knows that to keep under is to endure. What happens to a big fish pulled out of the pond? Or to an implement of state pulled out of a scabbard? Unseen, they survive.” Or, “Out of sight, out of mind.” Stay off the radar screen. The Japanese have a proverb: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” If you want the real thing, it can be lived quietly and for real, within protected, camouflaged, and anonymous trappings. Enjoying it yourself and flaunting it are two different things. And, as mentioned, if you do want to indulge in flamboyancy, do it in environments where such behavior is the norm—like Monaco, perhaps the Canary Islands, various yacht communities around the world, etc. The point is to be free from entanglements, danger, making yourself a target, and getting on the wrong computer databases.

VI. The Bureaucrat Reduction Act
In accordance with the universal law of existence, the Law of Least Action, or “Nature always follows the path of least resistance,” and the strategic axiom of combat, “Know your enemy (enema?)”, emerges an infallible way of dealing with the system. In order to accomplish this, we must understand what the bureau-rat is, how he thinks, acts, and why, and then use it, go along with it, direct and guide it away from harm to us and into an oblivion of bureaucratic morass.

To begin with, a major key when dealing with bureau-rats is always answering their letters. What your response may be is far less important than the fact that you simply respond. One of the best responses is a statement that you are unable to respond to their letter because you do not understand item six of § 19. Immediately request a full explanation of that item.

When you receive any form letter, or semi-form letter, from any federal bureau-rat, the letter will almost always contain some statement in small print, at the bottom, to the effect that you have the right to receive pamphlet XMC-22741 that explains some obscure government position. Always request that pamphlet. Never address the subject of the letter, only request the pamphlet. That pamphlet will almost always contain a reference to some other pamphlet or document, so you must immediately demand a copy of the referenced document. After a while this can get to be fun. You open the latest envelope and go on a treasure hunt for what you can request. You are only exercising the rights concerning which the bureau-rat informed you, and you can keep the game going for years. Always take at least two weeks to respond. In most cases, by the time you get to the third or fourth exchange, the subject of the original letter is forgotten, but the bureau-rat cannot ever claim that you failed to respond.

For almost every document that any bureau-rat may demand of you, there exists an approved list of alternate documents that can be provided. When any letter requests something from you, you immediately write back saying that you do not think you have that document, what alternate document can be provided. Never say you don’t have it, and never refuse to provide it, just respond with a request for perfectly proper information.
Remember that bureau-rats have no original thoughts (original thoughts are off-point and outside of their job profiles). They have rulebooks and a job description, which they follow as if it were a religion (it is a religion, of course, the religion of meddling in other people’s lives and affairs, abrogating their rights, and extracting the fruits of their labor).

If you try to exercise a right that they do not recognize in their rulebook, cross them, or write an uppity letter, they will come down on you. If you exercise a right that you do have, however, such as one that they expressly inform you that you have, they will assist you in every way possible to exercise that right, since it is a part of their job description and rules. After all, they “are just doing their job.”

Remember also that bureau-rats of one agency have no concept of cooperation with another agency. A bureau-rat tends to interpret the involvement of another agency as a turf war, and wants to make sure he is covered and that the other agency is not going to accuse him of any incorrect action. A bureau-rat’s first law of survival is: “Secure your position and feather your nest.” This they do by following their rulebook and job description and never deviating outside of the confines thereof. Then they are safe, cozy, snug, and can look forward with confidence to enjoying that tax-financed pension in a few years. Using this feature of bureau-rat temperament enables you to deal with them effectively. Wrap them up in their own red tape until they are entangled, buried, and immobilized by it, and suffocate in it accordingly (RIP). You can add an absolute minimum of three months to anything by requiring inter-agency cooperation.

If you keep going long enough, the bureau-rats will totally loose track of the original objective, which was always extracting something form you, and will get totally sidetracked on the endless questions and issues in the treasure hunt. You never want to reach a point where you must make a commitment on anything and you never want to reach a point where resolution of the original question is dependant on anything outside your control, and you always want to involve more than one agency. Always ask for copies of everything. You never know what interesting information has been penciled on the original or will show up.

Always read the small print at the bottom of the letter. In many cases, this small print tells you about a right you might exercise. In many cases, it also provides a time limit for response. You always respond within, but barely within, that time limit. Remember that you always have the right to be “fully informed” and can add a 30-60 day delay just by asking for the definition of a word in a document.

It never hurts to send other government agencies requests for opinions or information. If you do this enough you will find some bureau-rat, somewhere, who expresses an opinion in writing that disagrees with the opinion of your original contact. Immediately forward a copy of that letter to the original bureau-rat and then sit back and watch the fur fly between the two bureau-rats, since each has committed his position in writing. Let them get involved in fighting it out while you become a detached spectator and no long the subject of their preoccupation.

Bureau-rats love documents. A desktop publishing system is a great toy. OK, Mr. bureau-rat, you want a document, I’ll go home and make you one. You might, for instance, obtain a foreign license plate (perhaps from auto yard junk dealers) and print out an appropriate registration document. For such things it of course helps if you have a sample of what a registration looks like from that country, and also be sure to have a seal from the agency, which you can obtain by writing them and requesting answers to some questions. On the letterhead they use to answer you will be all of the data you need. Print out your registration on post card stock, with boxes for containing all of the important data, like make, model, year, serial number.
Then get a letterhead from US customs and use it to crank out a letter that states that your license plate is good in the US only for the first 180 days and that if I do not return it to Singapore in the US in that time I must register it in the US.

You can collect a letterhead from almost any federal, state, or local agency by sending them a letter asking some mundane question, e.g. what secretary they are under. When you receive the response, scan the signature block and letterhead. Now you can have that poor bureau-rat saying anything you want him to say.

You can do the same thing by writing to agencies of other governments or American agencies overseas. You can have all kinds of fun with a letterhead from the embassy in Walla-Walla Land. There are some agencies that scare the hell out of other bureau-rats, e.g. the Attorney General’s Office, the General Services Administration, and any congressional investigations committee. Be sure to collect these letterheads.
Have made, or make yourself, 3rd world ID that looks realistic. Buy the laminate pouches with holograms and you can be anything from a health inspector in Malaysia to a chief of police in Thailand. Whatever you can dream up, you can make a nice ID card for on your desktop publisher and then seal it in the little envelope.

Always remember that if you ever show that ID to any bureau-rat, it should be from some nation that is at least a thousand miles away, and better yet, ten time zones away. UN ID works very well, because any number of different UN agencies issue ID, with no common format and no common verification point. Also, every UN bureau-rat is concerned about security and tends to say, “Submit it in writing and let us consider your request.” The UN also authorizes agencies of other governments and even private operations to issue UN ID. It is quite common for the same ID to be used in one format in one area and another format in another area.

Avoid European nations, since they are worse about databases than the US. A cop can verify a German license place from his patrol car, but one from Tonga or Thailand might take 2 months.

Pick up rubber stamps while outside of the US, e.g. a notary seal. Go to the rubber stamp department and they will have a sample notary seal. Make several impressions and take them with you. Now you can notarize any forgery you want, in the name of some poor fool that the state never heard of.
Print up business cards to match the ID you have created. Print out your ID on postcard stock, photo-grade paper, and print out on a good laser or inkjet color printer.

Finally, bureau-rats never agree with each other. An example of this phenomenon is asking the IRS help line and receiving different answers every time you call. You can obtain the same result by writing to a dozen offices of some federal agency that interests you, asking each one the same question. Review the answers and trash all responses except the one that best supports the opinion you want to enforce. You now have federal justification for your actions. This is true of essentially every federal agency. Once you have such a document, you have prima facie authority for the position you wish to assert and have enforced.

VI. Final review of new legal position.
In all civil matters, jurisdiction has shifted to the courts of another nation, with a much more reasonable outlook on civil liability and in a geographical area where it is much more difficult for Americans to bring suit. Even in our personal life, we are much better protected from civil actions, not because of legal defense but because we are vastly more difficult to find and serve. In any case where legal action is possible, we would identify ourselves as our second (expatriate nationality) personality, leaving the attorneys with a conundrum re how and where to bring suit.

Re the taxman, some of our actions are in a gray area, others are illegal, and none can ever be discovered unless we are very, very foolish. Our business personality is considered by the IRS to be “US source income” if we earn it while physically standing on this soil. The courts disagree with this, but the IRS can disregard the courts. In any case, this is a gray area and is the reason for rotating corporations every five years. By the time the IRS discovers that a corporation exists, the only additional information they can determine is that there is no US citizen as any officer of the corporation and no assets left in the corporation.
If you file taxes as an expatriate when you are not, it will be deemed tax fraud and can send you to jail. Consequently, if you are going to do this (and far superior alternatives exist), the third personality must make no computer tracks anywhere. That means, it owns no assets, has no bank accounts (except one with income from the expatriate personality only), has no domicile in the US, and exists here as a phantom. You won’t get in trouble for a traffic ticket, because you are only visiting or here at home on leave. Spend money here on a foreign credit card.

Providing foreign ID to any bureau-rat, including police officers, is not a crime. False ID is a crime if the intent is to defraud, but foreign ID in your name is totally legal.

Driving on a foreign DL or IDP is legal for an expatriate home on leave. Under current international treaties, the license is good for 180 days after your return to the states, pending your leaving again. If you have returned to stay, you become subject to the rules of your state of residence. Most officers are not aware of the 180-day rule, but are aware of the residence rule in their state. It is better to appear to have been home only for a few days. Also, be aware that when presenting a foreign DL, the officer has a legal right to take you into custody for immediate trial for your traffic offense. This rarely happens, however. They don’t want tourists going home talking about spending their vacation in an American jail as the result of a speeding ticket.

Imperative: Never, never drive an automobile registered in your name, with an American registration, using a foreign license. If you drive a car, it must be registered to some corporation or to another person.

Registrations, titles, or other similar legal documents in the name of your corporation, are totally legal in the US. A corporation can own your house, car, boat, and anything that is taxed or needs a document of ownership. There is no restriction. That corporation can also pay any property tax due on those items. The only difficulty in purchasing anything in the corporate name is that finance companies will not provide the money. So, pay cash instead. If you buy a new car for cash, obtain the MCO. There is actually no requirement that you ever take out a title for the auto if you have source plates for the car. No title means no sales tax, no property tax, no mandatory insurance enforcement, no state inspection system, just the freedom to enjoy the highways of the US as guaranteed by international treaty.