Basically ... How or even if you have to prove it is easy; we never did. If you are serious send me a PM and I will tell you what you need to know.
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could you elaborate a little? If memory serves, you can hide the first 70,000 or so if you spend 330 days of the year offshore (or something like that). Is that correct?
Now $80K, plus some housing, etc.. If your wife works in the business, double it. There are a couple of tests for foreign residency, not hard.
Sorry..... It is legal, I was not trying to imply that it is not. I did not even think about including your significant other. 160K. Not bad at all.
I have heard alot of mixed things about the Bahamas. Tourist trap, high crime rate, etc, etc. If there were no tax breaks, would you still be there? I have been to the Dominican Republic, and absolutely loved it. Still not sure I would want to live there full time though.