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‘Policy concerns’ feared to weigh when UK FATCA challenge ruling unveiled this week

Last Wednesday, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it expects this week to issue its decision in a closely-watched legal challenge over data protection violations that a U.S.-born, UK-resident plaintiff alleges have resulted from the way HMRC has forwarded her personal information to the U.S., in compliance with…

May 27, 2020
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Surprise stimulus payment advantage for expats spotted, via Foreign Earned Income Exclusion

A little more than a month after Americans around the world have begun receiving “Economic Impact Payments” from the U.S. Treasury – as part of the government’s emergency US$2trn CARES Act stimulus package, unveiled in March – tax experts have begun to point out that some wealthy expatriates could potentially…

May 21, 2020
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Special report: Global 'pandemic' of webinars and podcasts seen, for U.S. expats, professionals

After two months of being unable to travel to meet with clients or to sponsor or participate in seminars and conferences, American expat-focused organizations, wealth and tax managers and advocacy groups have turned in growing numbers to videos, webinars and podcasts as a means of staying in touch with their…

May 21, 2020
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Andersen Global unveils collab deals with firms based in Madagascar, Mauritania and Ukraine

Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm, has expanded its presence in East and West Africa and Eastern Europe thus far this month, with the signing of collaboration agreements with firms…

May 20, 2020
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Latest ACA TaxCast: Kostelanetz & Fink LLP’s Caroline Ciraolo

In the latest of its new TaxCast series of podcasts, launched at the end of March, the American Citizens Abroad features an interview with Caroline Ciraolo, a partner of Kostelanetz & Fink LLP, a U.S. law firm, as well as a former acting assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of…

May 19, 2020
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IRS begins using pre-paid debit cards to issue stimulus payments

The U.S. Treasury says it is beginning to send out many of the Economic Impact Payments to U.S. taxpayers who haven't yet received theirs in the form of pre-paid debit cards rather than by paper check.

May 19, 2020
Tax
By staff writer

Andrew Scheer at a news conference last year, at which he disclosed his dual citizenship

Canada's Andrew Scheer not renouncing U.S. citizenship after all: reports

Last year, while campaigning as the Canadian Conservative Party's candidate to unseat Justin Trudeau as prime minister, Andrew Scheer was revealed to have dual U.S./Canadian citizenship that he'd acquired as a result of his father having been born in the United States, but he insisted that he was in the…

May 18, 2020
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Renounced U.S. citizens, foreign workers reported among those to receive CARES Act payments

As lawyers representing plaintiffs in a number of U.S. states prepare to bring legal challenges against the U.S. government and key government officials for denying certain American taxpayers the right to receive CARES Act "Economic Impact Payments" because they most recently have been filing their tax returns jointly with their…

May 14, 2020
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

American Citizens Abroad podcast: Families in Global Transition's Dawn Bryan

"Families in global transition" are the subject of this month's American Citizens Abroad podcast, which went live this week. The podcast features a chat with Dawn Bryan, pictured left, the president of an organization by that name – Families in Global Transition (FIGT) – who discusses with ACA podcast interviewer "Michelle" some…

May 14, 2020
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IRS: CARES Act payments sent to more than half a million non-resident Americans

The U.S. Treasury has sent CARES Act Economic Stimulus Payments to more than half a million American expats, as of last Friday (May 8), the IRS has reported.

May 14, 2020
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Yet more surprises in latest (and largest ever) quarterly U.S. renunciation names list, renounce-data-watchers say

American expatriates who closely monitor the quarterly publication of renunciation data from the U.S. Treasury Department have become used to surprises, and the latest numbers once again are raising a few eyebrows.

May 11, 2020
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‘Policy concerns’ feared to weigh when UK FATCA challenge ruling unveiled this week

Surprise stimulus payment advantage for expats spotted, via Foreign Earned Income Exclusion

Special report: Global 'pandemic' of webinars and podcasts seen, for U.S. expats, professionals

Andersen Global unveils collab deals with firms based in Madagascar, Mauritania and Ukraine

Latest ACA TaxCast: Kostelanetz & Fink LLP’s Caroline Ciraolo

IRS begins using pre-paid debit cards to issue stimulus payments

Canada's Andrew Scheer not renouncing U.S. citizenship after all: reports

Renounced U.S. citizens, foreign workers reported among those to receive CARES Act payments

American Citizens Abroad podcast: Families in Global Transition's Dawn Bryan

IRS: CARES Act payments sent to more than half a million non-resident Americans

Yet more surprises in latest (and largest ever) quarterly U.S. renunciation names list, renounce-data-watchers say

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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

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

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‘Dem sponsor needed’ for expat tax fairness bill, Rep. Holding tells London gathering

U.S. government report acknowledges problems with FATCA reporting

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