Michel,
Additionnaly to the cost, the fact that one operates such companies is targeted for annual audit on a regular basis.That's if you are *exporting* $. Since you will be *importing* $, you are not exposed. you will be able to demonstrate your invoices and your incomings.
The annual maintenance to run offshore companies usually are about 25,000.00$ US for legal fees.Those sorts of structures are to allow fat cats to evade tax. That's not your intention, right? Your intention is for your company structure to reflect the fact that you are exporting service. It is not illegal to establish a structure that reflects the nature of your business.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
