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.
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.
While it's sometimes said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, the still-raging coronavirus pandemic and recent U.S. elections have increased the degree of uncertainty with respect to the tax element of that truism for some more than others, according to the experts at Israel-based, American expat-focused Silver & Co. law firm.
With this in mind, Silver & Co. is co-hosting a webinar with Dunhill Financial, the London-based, American expat-focused wealth advisory firm, on what they call the "Estate planning oportunities and considerations for high-net-worth individuals" during these uncertain times.
In June, 2018, cross-border tax experts issued their first warnings that a then-just-passed U.S. Supreme Court ruling, in a case known as South Dakota v. Wayfair, would have far-reaching effects on e-commerce businesses that sold their products across U.S. state borders – including those selling into the U.S. from abroad.
As predicted, the decision has left many business owners around the world scratching their heads – and seeking advice.
Monte Silver, the American tax attorney resident in Israel who has been challenging elements of President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (TCJA) that he says would devastate small overseas businesses run by Americans – such as his – said final regulations issued by the U.S. Treasury Department yesterday represented a “huge win for our advocacy”.
An American citizen living in Israel has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department, challenging a key component of President Trump's December 2017 tax reform legislation, as it applies to controlled foreign corporations.
In the early years of this century, a number of major media exposés reported how Homeland Americans, as well as rich people from other developed and developing countries, were making...
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