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PSG Konsult Trust

PSG Konsult Trust is an independent fiduciary services company, offering services including estate planning, drafting of wills , drafting and registration of trusts and registration of companies.

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PSG Konsult Trustees Ltd, Mauritius

PSG Konsult Trustees Limited is a corporate trustee regulated and licensed by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius to provide corporate trustee services.

Much has been spoken and written about offshore trusts over the years. Some for, some against.

Consider the following:

  1. Political Risk:
    By lending one's offshore allowance to an offshore trust one can ensure that the assets are held and controlled outside of South Africa.
  2. Currency Hedge:
    An investment into a hard currency, GBP, Euro or USD ensures that the assets would be protected in international currency terms should the Rand devalue.
  3. Estate Duty:
    The trust assets would be pegged in Rand terms for estate duty purposes. Estate duty is currently 20% of an estate over R3.5m. (By clever use of the donation tax allowance the assets can accumulate offshore over a number of years.) Why, after all make you heirs pay more tax on your hard earned assets than they need to?
  4. Hassle of Probate:
    Probate and the winding up of an estate are long, tedious and painful procedures. By having a trust hold the assets at least the trust assets would fall outside of the estate making every-one?s life much easier.
  5. Freedom and Flexibility:
    There is no exchange control in Mauritius and the trust assets can be transferred anywhere or invested any how once held by the trust.
  6. Tax Savings:
    The offshore trust would not suffer income tax, capital gains tax, donations tax etc. The client would only be taxed on interest received from lending funds to the trust or from any distribution made by the trust back to him as a beneficiary.
  7. Relationship:
    The trust would be administered by a fellow PSG Group company but direct contact would be maintained with the trustees through PSG Konsult Trust?s fiduciary consultants, based in SA.
  8. International Investments:
    Access to a wide range of international investments otherwise inaccessible from SA.

The process for the drafting and registration of an offshore structure is as follows:

  1. Complete the application form;
  2. SARS application for investment allowance;
  3. FICA;
  4. Appointment of PSG Konsult investment advisor;
  5. Registration of trust and opening of bank account;
  6. Transfer of investments.

The trustees shall furnish the client on an annual basis with the necessary information required by SARS.