On April 22, 2021, American Citizens Abroad submitted its comments to the Senate Finance Committee, in response to the committee's proposed framework for "investing in the American people by ensuring multinational corporations pay their fair share." 

Below, the ACA's comments in full, as written by ACA Executive Director Marylouise Serrato and ACA Legal Counsel Charles Bruce, who is also chairman of the ACA Global Foundation.

The American Citizens Abroad Global Foundation – the sister educational and research organization to the Washington, D.C.-based American Citizens Abroad advocacy group – today is unveiling a campaign to raise US$75,000 to fund a research project that it plans to help provide the ACA and others with fresh data that the ACAGF says will help to support arguments in favor of moving the U.S. to a Residence-Based Taxation system.

While some cities, countries and jurisdictions are beginning to relax their lockdown rules somewhat, travel bans and other restrictions continue to prevent people from being able to meet up in anything like the way they would have in the days before the global Covid pandemic took hold last year...

The U.S. Senate's Finance Committee today will hear from a number of experts on how the country's "international tax policy" is impacting U.S. workers, jobs and investment, during a "virtual hearing" scheduled to begin today at 9:30am Washington time (1:30pm GMT).

The four-day "2021 Expats Virtual Financial Summit" wrapped up on Friday, having attracted more than 700 participants to its nine sessions, and was branded a success by spokespeople for the various companies that came together to put it on.

These included the American Expat Financial News Journal, the editor of which served as the event's moderator.

A group of organizations and companies in the American expat space has joined forces to launch a new, Washington, DC-based lobbying organization, with a single goal: persuading U.S. lawmakers to move the U.S. to a residence-based tax regime, like most of the rest of the world's countries have.

Over four days beginning on Tuesday the 26th of January, ten experts from around the world will be sharing their expertise on a range of financial topics of interest to American expats, as part of the first of what it is thought could become a series of "virtual financial summits" aimed at Americans who live outside of the U.S.

The American Citizens Abroad is to host a "free tax webinar" next Thursday (Jan. 21), in association with Amsterdam-based Americans Overseas, a  tax and citizenship advisory firm that is also active in advocating on behalf of accidental Americans resident in the Netherlands.

The American Citizens Abroad, the non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Rockville, Maryland that exists to help Americans who live overseas, will be co-hosting a free webinar this Thursday with Amsterdam-based Americans Overseas, an advisory firm that helps "accidental Americans" and other American expats in the Netherlands, while also advocating on their behalf on legislative issues.

The American Citizens Abroad has called on the Assistant Secretary of State, Carl Risch, to "prioritize overseas Americans' access to essential U.S. citizen services," citing "continuing reports" it's been receiving "regarding the serious delays, to outright inability, of some U.S. citizens to access" key U.S. citizen services outside of the country.