Southern Sass: UD | An Important Message About Your Taxes... and Scuba Diving

4.14.2013

UD | An Important Message About Your Taxes... and Scuba Diving

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04/14/13

Stairway to Haven

What to Do While Visiting Your Money

Friendly reminder: tax day is tomorrow. Even friendlier reminder: you need a vacation. And if that vacation occurs in the Caymans, the Bahamas or another nation with a laissez-faire approach to capital gains, we’re not here to ask why. We’re simply here to ensure you’re using your time wisely. Here’s how.

GRAND GESTURE

Taking a Night Swim in the Caymans

The Caymans are famous for one thing: their crystal-clear diving conditions. (Yep, that’s it.) The best move: night diving. It’s a sunset cruise that ends with you getting a headlamp, a respirator and some new stingray best friends. And if you find a great safe-deposit spot under some coral, all the better.


411:	Night Diving Grand Caymans via DNS Diving, Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, +1 345 916 2490, more info here

COVE-ERT OPERATION

For the Most Discreet of Company Outings

So you’re moving your entire company to the Bahamas. While getting settled, consider staying here: a hidden cove with enough oceanside suites for your entire board, and a chef who trained under Emeril. Oh, and an infinity pool overlooking the Caribbean, with nary a cloud in sight. Nor any direct taxes whatsoever.


411:	The Cove Eleuthera, Eleuthera, Gregory Town, Bahamas, +1 242 335 5142, more info here

ROSE TO THE OCCASION

Talking Finance Is Tiring. Stay Here.

Lots to see in Anguilla. The white-sand beaches. The leatherback turtles. Also: this cliffside manse to end all cliffside manses. You’ll have four bedrooms, Italian-marble floors and—just in case—security guards. Plus, you’ll have access to a private island with no phone reception. Yep, they really thought of everything.


411:	Desert Rose Anguilla, Captain’s Bay, Anguilla, British West Indies, +1 264 235 5000, more info here

SPEEDY DELIVERY

Going for Broke on a Formula 1 Track

It’s a delicate question: how best to spend your bonus while you’re visiting it in Abu Dhabi. We’re thinking a few speed-limit-less laps around a Formula 1 track in an Aston Martin sounds about right. Because you can do that here. And because it’s never a bad idea to practice your evasive maneuvers.


411:	Yas Viceroy Abu Dhabi, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE, +971 2 656 0000, more info here

ISLAND TIME

Here’s Your Private Bahamian Island

Sometimes, you just need a little privacy for your investments. Other times, you just want a private, rentable island with three houses, its own airstrip and a marina full of boats for fishing/defending your sovereignty. And other times—rarer times—you want both. Guess what time it is.