Exactly how much the U.S. government is justified in expecting American citizens looking to expatriate to pay to do so was extensively discussed and debated during yesterday's hearing in Washington, D.C.'s E. Barrett Prettyman District Courthouse, by the legal teams representing both sides in a two-year-long legal challenge of the…

The Internal Revenue Service has quietly announced that it is introducing "temporary U.S. Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) relief" for non-U.S. banks and other "foreign financial institutions" located in certain countries, so that they won't be deemed to be in "significant non-compliance" of their obligations under the U.S. tax evasion-prevention law…

(...but it's said no more reciprocal than other Model 1 IGAs) Argentina has at last agreed a FATCA Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the U.S. government, according to a statement on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Argentina, tax industry sources, and news reports in that country. Until now, Argentina had…