For the fourth year in a row, more than 1,000 people formally gave up their American citizenship in the three months to the end of September, as a result, observers said, of the continued frustration over the way Americans living overseas are taxed.
Looking for Mr Goodbar was a 1975 book, made into a film two years later, about a New York City schoolteacher who ended up being murdered by a young man she’d just met.
“Mr FBAR,” on the other hand – and of rather more relevance here – is an Expatland nickname for a document that U.S. expats around the world have been required to file annually with the IRS since 1970, if their total offshore bank and financial account holdings total US$10,000 or more at any time during the tax year.
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.
News that the U.S. dollar was again spiking against the British pound today, on news that Prime Minister Theresa May's draft Brexit deal was coming in for criticism and had prompted two cabinet ministers to quit, was seen as adding fresh complexity to the difficulties American expatriates looking to buy U.K. properties were already struggling with, mortgage industry sources told the American Expat Financial News Journal.
President Donald Trump didn’t show up to an event held yesterday on the Île aux Cygnes (Isle of Swans) in Paris, to which he had been invited – but then, he didn’t make it to a scheduled wreath-laying ceremony to honor French and American World War I dead at a French cemetery the day before, either.
On the 18th of November the Democrats Abroad UK will be hosting a webinar that it says will offer viewers "the basics of U.S. tax filing requirements" specifically aimed at Americans living abroad.
Those who wish to watch it later, on demand, may do so, by paying a small fee to obtain a link that will give them 30 days of unlimited access to the webinar, a DAUK spokesperson said.
The re-election last week of House of Representatives member George Holding has revived talk about whether he will go through with his rumoured plans to introduce legislation aimed at making the U.S. tax regime less unforgiving for the millions of Americans estimated to live overseas.
When the Hollywood version of Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel, Crazy Rich Asians, hit the world's cinemas recently, English-language commentators familiar with the multi-cultural Singaporean dialect took note of the "Singlish" words...
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