Helen Burggraf

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updated 6:40 PM CEST, Sep 25, 2020

Indianapolis wealth manager unveils plans to add ‘international advisory teams’ to its platform

IRS adds languages, digital-signing capability to key forms

‘Lucifer’s Banker’ Birkenfeld back Sept. 30, with ‘uncensored’ update of tell-all book

Andersen Global adds outposts in Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis

Tax Foundation: Joe Biden’s plan to address 'offshoring' comes with contradictions

Helen Burggraf

Helen Burggraf is the editor of the American Expat Financial News Journal, and is based in London. Born on a U.S. Air Force base in Montana, she has spent most of the past 26 years in the U.K., and has also lived and worked in Rome, Italy and New York.

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Indianapolis wealth manager unveils plans to add ‘international advisory teams’ to its platform

‘Lucifer’s Banker’ Birkenfeld back Sept. 30, with ‘uncensored’ update of tell-all book

News that Austrians received U.S. stimulus checks draws responses from expats, EU data protection law critic

Democrats Abroad responds to RO letter to Meadows; Biden camp still silent

Accidental Americans Ass'n hits renunciation fee lawsuit crowdfunding target

Republicans Overseas calls for executive order to help expats ahead of prez election

Thun Financial's Farmer and Michelin move to Walkner Condon

Expats re-tweet B'berg editorial citing 'tax reporting nightmare' as reason for renunciation stampede

UK FATCA challenger 'Jenny' latest: Request to HMRC to waive 'adverse party costs'

'Comprehensive' Biden plan to win overseas voters sank without trace after July launch

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Helen Burggraf

Indianapolis wealth manager unveils plans to add ‘international advisory teams’ to its platform

‘Lucifer’s Banker’ Birkenfeld back Sept. 30, with ‘uncensored’ update of tell-all book

News that Austrians received U.S. stimulus checks draws responses from expats, EU data protection law critic

Democrats Abroad responds to RO letter to Meadows; Biden camp still silent

Accidental Americans Ass'n hits renunciation fee lawsuit crowdfunding target

Republicans Overseas calls for executive order to help expats ahead of prez election

Thun Financial's Farmer and Michelin move to Walkner Condon

Expats re-tweet B'berg editorial citing 'tax reporting nightmare' as reason for renunciation stampede

UK FATCA challenger 'Jenny' latest: Request to HMRC to waive 'adverse party costs'

'Comprehensive' Biden plan to win overseas voters sank without trace after July launch

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IRS adds languages, digital-signing capability to key forms

Andersen Global adds outposts in Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis

Funding concerns loom for 'Jenny' as clock ticks on her possible UK FATCA appeal

Online course in September for advisers seeking to know more about advising U.S. expats

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Little noticed abroad, controversial new U.S. ‘best interest’ law takes effect today

The FATCA/AEOI Papers: Mishcon publishes research trove, unearthed as part of crowd-funded UK FATCA case

Confirmed – Rep. Holding to leave Congress at end of 2020, after reintroducing Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad Act

Now Scottish MP questions UK government about 'recent representations' concerning FATCA

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'Accidental Americans' group launches 'major' letter-writing campaign targeting Congressional Dems

Congressman Holding to discuss ‘Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad’ bill in London in April

Call for expats to be included in U.S. coronavirus relief efforts, as citizenship-based tax regime faces test

UK MP vows to continue speaking out on behalf of ‘accidental Americans’ living in Britain

Charles Schwab telling clients in UK, Europe their accounts must move or be transferred by year’s end

Seven things that surprise Americans about U.K. mortgages, house-buying

Accidental Americans latest: French banks warn of potential need to close 40,000 accounts

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to close all but seven of its overseas offices

U.S. government report acknowledges problems with FATCA reporting

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Tax Foundation: Joe Biden’s plan to address 'offshoring' comes with contradictions