Almost nine in 10 U.S. expats say they are "caught between two systems" when it comes to their banking and tax matters, according to the latest data to emerge from a major survey of more than 400 Americans who live outside of the U.S., carried out last October and November by the Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO).

YouTube, the giant, San Bruno, California-based online video-sharing platform, has stunned video content "creators" around the world with its announcement this week that it will soon begin to deduct taxes from their YouTube earnings for the first time, because its parent, Google LLC, says it must.

London’s historic and atmospheric Smithfield market will host the annual DJH International Tax Conference next month.

For various reasons, people, including those with U.S. tax obligations,  have long taken advantage of the option to use so-called "nominees" to hold legal title to some of their non-U.S. assets. But while there can be arguably good reasons for doing so, especially in countries where Shariah Law can dictate how assets are distributed when someone dies, it can also result in huge and unexpected problems.

Here, in an excerpt from her most recent blog, Dubai-based tax expert Virginia La Torre Jeker considers some of the issues that can arise.

Some 97% of a cross-section of American expatriates surveyed by the overseas arm of the Democratic party in January and early February report that they have "serious problems addressing their U.S. tax filing obligations" every year.

The U.S. government may still be largely shut down, but non-U.S. resident Americans who have U.S. tax reporting obligations may now be able to kick off the 2018 reporting season by filing their 2018 Foreign Bank Account Reports, as the official FBAR exchange rates have just been published.

The U.K.'s royal family is looking to recruit "a firm of U.S. financial consultants" to help its in-house aides as they "struggle to deal with the Duchess of Sussex's "American tax 'nightmare'," a U.K. Sunday newspaper is reporting today, in what it says is an exclusive report.

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. 

The American Citizens Abroad, the main non-partisan Washington lobbying group representing American expats around the world, today urged the U.S. Treasury Department to introduce a so-called de minimis rule to its latest draft of new tax regulations, in order to address what it said were problems inherent in the legislation that, if not changed, would cause major problems for many U.S. citizens living abroad.  

Paul Hocking, one of the best-known figures in the U.K.'s American expat-focused tax community, has died in an accident in Africa, it has been announced.