The IRS's collection of 15 tax quotations, wonderful as it is – as we noted yesterday – does miss a few classics that rank highly in our own collection.

There's Benjamin Franklin’s quote, for one thing, which is probably among the world's best-known tax quotations of all: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”  (Almost equally famously, American author Martha Mitchell included a variation on Franklin’s quote in her 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, n which she has her heroine, Scarlett O’Hara, say: “Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!”)

Republican Representative George Holding will discuss his recently-proposed Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad legislation in April, in a public forum for American expats in London that the organizers say they are hoping will build the solid cross-party consensus that Holding’s bill will need to be approved by Congress. 

A trial in which a group of Canadian/American citizens are seeking to challenge the constitutionality of the Canadian government's enforcement of America’s FATCA legislation is set to begin on Monday in a federal courthouse in Vancouver, British Columbia, and will be broadcast live via a "webcast", according to sources involved in the lawsuit.

American owners of small businesses who are resident outside of the U.S. are reacting with frustration, and in some cases dismay, to the news that the U.S. government has published its final draft of the so-called Transition Tax element of Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act without taking into account concerns about what the legislation would do to them.

Looking for Mr Goodbar was a 1975 book, made into a film two years later, about a New York City schoolteacher who ended up being murdered by a young man she’d just met. 

“Mr FBAR,” on the other hand – and of rather more relevance here – is an Expatland nickname for a document that U.S. expats around the world have been required to file annually with the IRS since 1970, if their total offshore bank and financial account holdings total US$10,000 or more at any time during the tax year.

A video of a seminar held last month in London, which focused on legislative efforts currently under way in Washington to address the significant tax problems currently facing many American expatriates, has been posted on YouTube.