An English-language news website based in Amsterdam has become the latest non-U.S. media organization to highlight the struggles that overseas-resident Americans – "accidental or otherwise", as it says in its headline – are having, in dealing with the U.S. tax evasion-prevention law known as FATCA.
How U.S. expats can better make their voices heard in Washington will be the subject of a Zoom meeting scheduled for this Thursday evening (for those living in Europe), sponsored by the Paris-based Association of Americans Resident Overseas.
Between the 2021 tax reporting season that is still underway (most U.S. expats have until June 15 rather than an April deadline to file, of course), and President Biden's just-unveiled so-called "Green Book" of 2023 revenue proposals, there sure is a lot out there to talk about right now...
A major report detailing what are said to be the compliance shortcomings of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, just made public within the past 24 hours by the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, has sparked interest and concern among FATCA-watchers around the world, including American expatriates and the tax experts, lawyers and political advocates who represent them.
In a rare live webinar interview with a financial media representative, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig is set to discuss "the current state of the IRS" this afternoon at 2pm EDT (7pm British time, 8pm CEST) with Tax Analysts president and chief executive Cara Griffith.
This Thusday (April 14) the Democrats Abroad's Taxation Task Force is hosting a Zoom webinar for expat Americans that will address "the ins and outs of using the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE) versus the Foreign Tax Credits (FTC)" when filing one's U.S. taxes.
ProPublica, the New York-based, non-profit investigative media organization that last year published a series of investigative articles exposing certain under-the-radar ways some wealthy individuals have been using in recent years to avoid having to pay taxes, is this evening hosting an online "virtual event" entitled "The Bllionaire Playbook", which it says will "seek to unpack" President Biden's recently-unveiled plans to address such tax-avoidance strategies.
The American Expat Financial News Journal’s “Essential Financial Acronyms for Americans Living Abroad” is designed to help our fellow Yanks in Expatland to navigate the international seas of the financial...
May-05-2022
