From the moment President Biden's latest proposed package of taxes and changes to existing regulations aimed at America's wealthiest taxpayers in particular went live on Monday, U.S. wealth managers and tax advisers have been trawling through its pages, to get a sense of the scale and nature of the changes that may lie ahead...

American expatriates who say they've been frustrated by the unwilllingness of either of the two major U.S. political parties to take their issues on board are pointing to the recent emergence of at least three new political parties in the U.S. as a reason to be hopeful that their voices might at last begin to be heard.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has at last acknowledged the American expatriate voter, with a letter "to all Americans Residing Abroad" in which he pledges that a Biden-Harris administration would "work in partnership with you on all the issues that impact your lives and well-being as Americans resident abroad, including reviewing the barriers to accessing banking and financial services".

Last week, American voters – and business executives, onshore and abroad – finally got a look at Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's thoughts about how he planned to change the way the U.S. taxes cross-border commerce, if he wins the election in November.

Here, Daniel Bunn, vice president of Global Projects at the Washington, DC-based Tax Foundation think tank, reveals certain contradictions and discrepancies he sees in the Biden draft tax plan... 

A plan to launch what a former U.S. ambassador to Canada said back in July would be "the most comprehensive" program by any presidential campaign organization to engage overseas voters failed even to get noticed, it has emerged. 

Many overseas Americans – even more, in percentage terms, than their homeland counterparts – don’t vote.  A common attitude among such expats is expressed by one thirtysomething New Yorker, who was raised abroad and now lives in London, who says, “New York doesn’t need my vote. I’m a Democrat, like everyone else there. If I did vote, the outcome would be exactly the same as if I didn’t.”  

Others think their ballots won’t be counted. Still others aren’t even aware that they are eligible to vote, especially if they’ve been away from the States for many years, or even grew up abroad.

As the list of Democratic Party candidates still in the running for this year's U.S. presidential election has narrowed within the last few days to just two, some in the American expat community have begun expressing concern over a Bernie Sanders proposal to tax "all wealthy individuals" who might seek to relinquish their U.S. citizenships once his proposed "Wealth Tax" came into force, if he were elected.

The Democrats Abroad's Global Presidential Primary, which kicked off on March 3 ("Super Tuesday"), will wrap up this coming Tuesday, as expat Democrats  who live outside the U.S. turn out to support their candidate of choice to take on President Trump in November.

The Democrats Abroad has formally announced the 12 individuals who received the necessary number of signatures to stand as candidates in the party's so-called Global Presidential Primary (GPP), March 3 through 10.