Monte Silver, the Israel-based U.S. tax attorney who recently saw his and his company's legal attempt to challenge the Transition Tax element of former Donald  Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act dismissed on a technicality, says he's now decided to appeal the March 28 decision, and is inviting supporters and other expat small-business owners to help him finance it.  

In a ruling that has surprised many in the expatriate American community, a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. has officially declared Tel Aviv-headquartered U.S. tax attorney Monte Silver and his company "lack constitutional standing to pursue their claims" – thus ending, at least for now, Silver's feisty effort to force the U.S. Treasury to take small overseas businesses owned by Americans into account in its enforcement of President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.  

President Trump's 2017 overhaul of the U.S. tax system, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, appears destined for its own major overhaul, to judge by the prepared statements of a succession of the Democratic Party's top lawmakers that were delivered during a two-and-a-half-hour Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday.

U.S. multinational companies paid significantly less U.S. corporate taxes in the wake of the coming into force of President Trump's 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, both domestically and abroad, according to a report published last week by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

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).

More than a year after a U.S. District Court judge ruled that Tel Aviv-headquartered U.S. tax attorney Monte Silver could go ahead with his legal challenge to a key component of President Trump's December 2017 tax reform legislation, his right to bring the challenge is continuing to be the central issue in the case, it emerged earlier this week.

A major and potentially precedent-setting legal challenge to a key component of President Trump's December 2017 tax reform legislation, as it applies to "controlled foreign corporations", will move at last to a U.S. district courtroom in Washington, D.C. on Monday, more than two years after it was launched.

Two long-serving Democratic congressmen yesterday unveiled what they're calling the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, which they say would "close egregious offshore tax loopholes that allow companies to avoid taxes" by making their U.S.-made profits to "magically appear on the books in tax havens like the Cayman Islands."

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.

In what some are seeing as a blow to countless thousands of Americans who own stakes in non-U.S. corporations – including expats as well as Homelanders – a federal court in Washington state ruled on Thursday that a key retroactive element of President Trump's controversial, 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is constitutional.