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London-based entertainment industry specialists Skeet Kaye Hopkins joins Focus Financial, via GR&F

Skeet Kaye Hopkins, a London-based provider of a range of services to high- and ultra-high-net-worth clients in the entertainment industry, has agreed a merger with a Los Angeles-based multi-family office and business management firm, Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, and in so doing expands the international footprint of New York's Focus Financial…

March 19, 2019
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DemsAbroad Tax Task Force report details highlights of recent DC visit

Its latest visit to Capitol Hill to call on members of Congress revealed some areas of possible progress for issues of concern to U.S. expats, the Democrats Abroad’s Taxation Task Force has told its party members.

March 17, 2019
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U.S. finally publishes final 2018 renunciation data

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday finally published the names of the 687 people who officially "chose to expatriate" during the fourth quarter of 2018, amid questions from some expat lobbying groups as to why the figure was lower than they had been expecting.

March 14, 2019
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Rising rents in Dublin shine spotlight on alternative European financial centers, as Brexit talks struggle on

American financial services executives currently living in London, who have been told they're being transferred to their company's outpost in Dublin in response to the UK's planned departure from the European Union, this week have received some unwelcome news: Ireland's capital city has just entered the top five most expensive locations…

March 13, 2019
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UK (again) vows crackdown on offshore tax evaders, in spring statement

In what has become a regular promise of British chancellors over the past decade, UK Chancellor Philip Hammond on Wednesday vowed that the British government intends to come after those who see to evade or avoid their tax obligations through the use of offshore and cross-border means.

March 13, 2019
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UK turns down U.S.-born Brit's FATCA FOI request, after Canada, Oz obliged their citizens

UK officials have twice turned down a Freedom of Information request filed by a U.S. born British citizen who was interested in knowing the “extent of…the annual disclosure of British taxpayer information to the US Internal Revenue Service, as per FATCA’s requirements" – even though similar requests to the Canadian and…

March 7, 2019
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

U.S. Treasury finally cuts expat small-biz owners some GILTI slack

Campaigners for fairer treatment for American citizens abroad are claiming a victory this morning, as news emerged that the U.S. Treasury had finally cut owners of small businesses located abroad some slack yesterday, by enabling such individuals to choose to be treated like a corporation for tax purposes, and thus…

March 5, 2019
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

American companies in China see continued growth, tempered by challenges, uncertainty: AmCham China report

American companies in China are forecasting a continued growth in their revenues, although they say financial performance has softened compared with previous years, a survey of such businesses released last week by the American Chamber of Commerce in China, in partnership with Deloitte, reveals.

March 5, 2019
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97% of Americans abroad report 'serious problems addressing their US tax filing obligations': Dems Abroad

Some 97% of a cross-section of American expatriates surveyed by the overseas arm of the Democratic party in January and early February report that they have "serious problems addressing their U.S. tax filing obligations" every year.

March 4, 2019
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American Citizens Abroad's U.S.-citizen-friendly bank account marks 3-year anniversary

In March 2016, after years of lobbying U.S. government officials over the problems that American expats had been having in being able to get bank accounts and mortgages while abroad, the American Citizens Abroad organisation announced a partnership with the State Department Federal Credit Union (SDFCU) to provide such expats…

March 4, 2019
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National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson to retire

Nina Olson, who has spoken out forcefully on behalf of American expatriates a number of times in recent years during her tenure as the IRS's National Taxpayer Advocate, has announced that she will be retiring at the end of July.

March 3, 2019
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London-based entertainment industry specialists Skeet Kaye Hopkins joins Focus Financial, via GR&F

DemsAbroad Tax Task Force report details highlights of recent DC visit

U.S. finally publishes final 2018 renunciation data

Rising rents in Dublin shine spotlight on alternative European financial centers, as Brexit talks struggle on

UK (again) vows crackdown on offshore tax evaders, in spring statement

UK turns down U.S.-born Brit's FATCA FOI request, after Canada, Oz obliged their citizens

U.S. Treasury finally cuts expat small-biz owners some GILTI slack

American companies in China see continued growth, tempered by challenges, uncertainty: AmCham China report

97% of Americans abroad report 'serious problems addressing their US tax filing obligations': Dems Abroad

American Citizens Abroad's U.S.-citizen-friendly bank account marks 3-year anniversary

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson to retire

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'Accidental Americans' group launches 'major' letter-writing campaign targeting Congressional Dems

UK MP vows to continue speaking out on behalf of ‘accidental Americans’ living in Britain

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

Legislation to help American expats imminent, London audience told

Breaking: Congressman Holding scrapes through with ‘Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad Act’

Congressman Holding to discuss ‘Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad’ bill in London in April

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

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