The Democrats Abroad, the official organization of the Democratic Party for American citizens living permanently or temporarily outside of the U.S., has reported that it is in discussions with Virginia Rep. Don Beyer on a range of issues, including residence-based taxation (RBT).
The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok has issued "an advisory warning" to Americans in Thailand "to ensure they have adequate medical coverage if staying long-term in the country, especially if they are of retirement age," according to English language media reports out of Thailand.
The warning was issued days after the Thai government moved to require foreigners staying on certain visas to be insured.
Dutch finance secretary Menno Snel has become the latest European official to raise with Washington the matter of the harsh effects U.S. tax legislation is having on European citizens – in Snel's case, Dutch citizens resident in the Netherlands – as part of efforts aimed at convincing U.S. lawmakers to make changes to these laws.
The American Embassy in Vienna, one of a network of more than 300 embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions that the U.S. has around the world, has announced that “American citizens traveling in Austria who find themselves in distress and without a way to contact the U.S. embassy” will now be able to enter “any McDonald’s in Austria” and get the help they need.
Representatives from the Taxation Task Force of the Democrats Abroad said they managed to have a total of 18 meetings with lawmakers in Washington, DC during their just-completed three-day “door knock” there, including eight meetings with Republican Congressmen and ten with Democrats.
A French Assembly report is calling on the French government to engage in further negotiations over FATCA, and if necessary abandon it altogether, if it is unable to resolve the "extra-territorial tax" problems currently being faced by thousands of French citizens who also happen to be Americans.
In a House Ways & Means Committee hearing in Washington on Thursday, Republican Representative George Holding called on the IRS to find out exactly how many Americans are currently “living outside of the country, as well as how many are not filing or under-filing” their taxes each year.
Last week, it was revealed that British Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill had received her second formulaic and non-committal response in two months to specific questions she had asked the...
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