CaribTax Private Client advises individuals, entrepreneurs and investors whose personal affairs, business interests and Sint Maarten obligations intersect in ways a compliance service is not built to resolve.
Marco Aalbers spent more than a decade inside the Sint Maarten tax inspectorate before advising from the outside. Advice here is built on how a rule is actually applied and challenged, not only on how it reads.
Author of the first comprehensive English language edition of Sint Maarten tax legislation, co-author of Capita Selecta: Caribisch Fiscaal Recht, contributor to Vakstudie Belastingrecht, and lecturer at the University of Curaçao.
Every engagement opens with a Position Review at a fixed fee agreed in writing before any work begins. No open ended discovery, and no invoice that arrives as a surprise.
Designing structures that hold up, and repairing the ones that no longer fit the business they were built for.
Residency, holding and financing structures, and the gaps that open between two jurisdictions that were never designed to fit together.
Organising private and corporate assets for control and durability, with an honest test of whether a foundation actually fits.
Establishment, governance and cross-border treatment of the PFF, including the substance it needs to be respected.
Pre-arrival and pre-departure planning, where almost all of the available value sits before the move rather than after it.
Eligibility for the tax holiday regime, and the condition monitoring that most projects underestimate.
Entity positioning at acquisition, modelled against the exit, across the full development lifecycle.
Characterisation, holding structures and cross-border treatment, settled before a liquidity event rather than after it.
Transferring wealth across generations and across legal systems that do not agree with one another.
Tax risk in acquisitions and restructurings, translated into a price adjustment, a warranty or a condition.
Audits, assessments and formal objections, with strategy set from the first letter rather than the first hearing.
A full review of your current fiscal position: entities, shareholdings, residency status, filing history and exposure. Fixed fee, agreed in writing before work begins.
Design and implementation of what the review recommends, scoped and quoted from the review rather than estimated in advance of knowing the facts.
Annual monitoring of the position against changes in the law and changes in your circumstances, so that drift is caught as it happens rather than at the next review.
Not every matter needs this practice. If you need an annual declaration filed, payroll run, or an entity kept in good standing, those are handled well and at a lower cost by the CaribTax compliance services.
Private Client is for decisions that are difficult to unwind, positions that must remain defensible over years, and matters where more than one jurisdiction has a claim. Compare the compliance services →
Not sure which side of that line you are on? Our free one minute check asks six questions and tells you plainly. No email required, and nothing you enter is sent to us.
A fixed fee review of where you actually stand, delivered in writing. If the conclusion is that your current position is sound, that is what it will say.
