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by Lorna O'malley, Lor

To age gracefully does not mean that it is OK to neglect your skin and embrace the wrinkles before your time. Natural lines on the face can be a beautiful thing, telling a story of age and wisdom, but premature wrinkles are not the same. With some attention to your diet and lifestyle, you can improve skin tone and texture, naturally.

Beauty sleep
No, it is not an old wives tale! A good night's sleep is vital for skin cell rejuvenation. Ensure that you remove make-up before going to bed, and apply a good moisturiser to clean skin. You should aim to wake with a plumped up well rested glow.

De-stress
Ever wondered why they are called worry lines? De-stress by getting out of work and into the fresh air for regular breaks, walk in the country, get a relaxing facial. Also - pay attention that you are not carrying the worries of the day on your face ... stop now and again and see if you face is relaxed. Take time throughout the day to check that you are not tense in any areas such as the forehead. Open your mouth and eyes wide to give your facial muscles a stretch and rid tension.

Hydrate
Simple, and true. To drink plenty water is vital for brilliant skin. Pure mineral and/or filtered water is best. The body is made of water and so should be hydrated constantly throughout the day. Just look at what happens to fruit when it looses moisture - it shrivles up and the skin wrinkles!

Eat well
Make sure that your diet has plenty of antioxidents in it. Bright vegetables and dark berries are great for the skin. Avoid refined sugar and grains as they cause puffiness and pastiness - not a good look. Go for foods rich in Silicon ? radishes and cucumber for example are great for the skin. Eat foods with high water content for clear skin. If you have trouble with oily skin or acne you should cut down on fatty foods.

Be gentle
There are hundreds of creams on the market which promise to turn back the hands of time, but it is hard to see how a harsh chemical product could be more beneficial to the skin than a natural one packed with REAL vitamins, organic butters, vital nutrients etc. Do your skin a favour and use only the most natural substance on it.

Please note that this article is for entertainment purpose only and is NOT advice. The author will accept NO responsibility for incorrect information.

Put simply, you can defer (possibly forever, if you meet a certain condition which I'll share in a moment) capital gains taxes on the profits from the sale of a foreign property if you use the proceeds of the sale to buy another foreign property.

I've helped people perform these types of exchanges (Section 1031 or ?like kind? exchanges) for the past six years. I can help you, too, but first, a couple of caveats:

1. You can't exchange U.S. real estate into foreign real estate. This is a source of some confusion, probably dating back to a time before ?like kind? property was clearly defined and codified by the IRS. Although there have been cases where a 1031 exchange of U.S. real estate for foreign property has been performed when the replacement property was in Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands, the cold hard fact is that today you cannot 1031 exchange U.S. property for foreign real estate in most parts of the world.

2. Unless you perform a 1031 exchange, Uncle Sam will be sitting silently at the closing table with you waiting for his 15% share of the profits, whether the real estate being sold is in Paris, San Miguel de Allende, or Buenos Aires.

Please note that you must 1031 exchange the entire proceeds of the sale (less selling expenses), not just the profit or there will be ?cash boot,? and taxes due. Further, if you have a mortgage on the property being exchanged you are required to have a mortgage (for an equal or greater amount) on the new property to avoid ?mortgage boot?.

The Good News

If you 1031 exchange foreign property it doesn't have to be in the same country to meet the ?like kind? requirement. For example, you could 1031 exchange the proceeds of a sale from a Paris condo into beachfront property on Roatan.

Plus, you can 1031 exchange a single foreign property for multiple foreign properties'or 1031 exchange multiple foreign properties for a single foreign property--so long as the exchange is balanced, i.e. the value of all ?relinquished property? is equal to or greater than the value of all ?replacement property.?

So, you could, after 10 years of shrewd buying, sell your Paris condo, Roatan beach home, and Cancun beachfront lot, all worth a total of $1.5 million?and exchange the proceeds for a lovely $1.5 million Tuscany villa complete with vineyard (or visa versa)?and defer the capital gains tax you would otherwise owe Uncle Sam.

Remember when I said there was one condition that would allow you to defer the capital gains tax forever? Well, it's good news for your heirs--that ?condition? is when you die. At that point, your heirs will inherit your property on a ?stepped up basis? meaning at ?fair market value at the time of you death.? Ergo, no capital gains taxes will be paid by them (although they may owe estate tax).

Used properly, 1031 exchanging can eliminate equity shrinkage when you sell a property, therefore giving you more money to buy your next property. This can be repeated again and again, until your heirs inherit the property and pay no taxes for your 1031 exchange activities.

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