Tax

Marc Le Fur, left, and Laurent Saint-Martin

France's National Assembly to discuss FATCA reciprocity proposal on Friday

France's National Assembly is set to meet tomorrow to discuss a plan calling for a change to an existing "intergovernmental agreement" currently in place between France and the U.S. – introduced to enable French financial institutions to comply with the U.S. anti-tax evasion law known as FATCA – that would oblige…

November 12, 2020
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Isaac Brock's Kish unearths U.S. Treasury report calling for 'more enforcement' of citizenship expatriation tax compliance

A U.S. Treasury report calling for "more enforcement and a centralized compliance effort" to deal with the large numbers of American citizens who are currently expatriating every year, to ensure that they're all paying the required amount of exit tax as they leave, has been discovered its contents made public…

November 6, 2020
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

23-page EU Council 'working paper' on AEOI regs emerges, prompting concerns

A "Working Paper" issued by the European Council on Sept. 11, four days before the European Data Protection Board was due to meet to discuss how the EU should best prepare to participate in the worldwide move towards ever-greater automatic exchange of information, is being seen by some observers as…

November 5, 2020
Tax
By staff writer

IRS issues new Economic Impact Payments 'text scam' alert

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service issued a warning on Wednesday of a new "Covid-related text scam" that it said has been "created by thieves [to] trick people into disclosing [their] bank account information" by making them believe that it will result in their receiving the US$1,200 Economic Impact Payment (EIP).

November 5, 2020
Tax
By staff writer

New anti-extraterritorial taxation expat organization forms; launches survey

Stop Extraterritorial American Taxation, or SEAT, is the name of a new education and advocacy organization that's been formed by a half a dozen individuals who are already well known in the community of Americans living overseas. As part of its launch, the international not-for-profit group, which is based in…

October 22, 2020
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Helma Lodders, of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

Dutch media, politicians' focus returns to Dutch 'accidentals' and their bank account issues

A hard-line written response by Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra to the latest in a series of questions put to him and other Dutch officials over the past two years, about the banking problems so-called “accidental Americans” have been struggling with, has thrust the issue back into the media spotlight in the…

October 22, 2020
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Retired, 'unintentionally American' former KLM pilot may lose bank account due to FATCA

Ronald Ariës is a 62-year-old Dutch citizen, who is retired from KLM, the Dutch airline. He is one of "dozens" of Dutch citizens who have been told that they "will soon lose their bank accounts" because they are "unintentionally American", but are resisting their banks' insistence that they formalize their…

October 22, 2020
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Jan. 22, 2020 meeting of accidental Americans with Dutch lawmakers in Tweede Kamer, The Hague

Dutch finance minister’s answers to latest questions leave already-frustrated ‘accidentals’ reeling

A nine-page response by Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra to the latest batch of questions put to him by a Dutch parliamentarian sympathetic to the banking problems so-called “accidental Americans” have been struggling with has left many of those accidentals stunned and frustrated, they say.

October 14, 2020
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Concern over FBAR data confidentiality in wake of ‘FinCEN Files’ exposé

As American expats and their tax preparers come down to the final stretch of the Oct. 15 Foreign Bank Account Reports (FBAR) deadline, concerns are emerging over whether the data they’re about to send to the U.S. could, at some point, fall into the wrong hands.

September 29, 2020
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

IRS adds languages, digital-signing capability to key forms

As part of what it says is an "effort to reach under-served communities", the Internal Revenue Service is beginning to provide "information and assistance" to taxpayers in languages other than just English, as well as making certain key documents, such as the basic 1040 tax return form, available in Spanish.…

September 21, 2020
Tax
By staff writer

Andersen Global adds outposts in Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis

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 added two more jurisdiction to its growing Caribbean portfolio of outposts, with the signing of "collaboration agreements" with St. Kitts and Nevis-based HazelAlleyne, …

September 17, 2020
Tax
By staff writer

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Funding concerns loom for 'Jenny' as clock ticks on her possible UK FATCA appeal

Just when it was beginning to seem that a challenge to the U.S. tax evasion law known as FATCA actually had a chance of getting somewhere, a lack of financing has emerged as an issue...

August 26, 2020
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Online course in September for advisers seeking to know more about advising U.S. expats

DJH International Tax, a UK-based, American expat tax specialist firm, and Toronto-based U.S. citizenship and tax lawyer and commentator John Richardson, will be holding an online training course in September that will be aimed at financial advisers keen to learn more about advising American clients resident overseas on such issues…

August 11, 2020
Tax
By staff writer

Tax webinar: 'What the two recently-published final GILTI regs mean for expat biz owners, tax pros'

Monte Silver, the Israel-based American tax attorney best known recently for his efforts aimed at forcing U.S. officials to fix a number of apparently unintentional but significant consequences for small business owners that were contained in President Trump's 2017 tax reform legislation, will host a free, two-part webinar on the so-called…

July 23, 2020
Tax
By staff writer

A Reader Asks: ‘I’m dying to vote in the U.S. prez election! But will Uncle Sam come after me if I do?’

In the latest in our series of ‘A Reader Asks’ questions, a 30-something American expatriate who has been living in London for most of her life says she is really keen to vote in the forthcoming election – but she’s wary, as she’s heard that she might attract unwanted attention…

July 22, 2020
Tax
By Katelynn Minott

Tax

France's National Assembly to discuss FATCA reciprocity proposal on Friday

Isaac Brock's Kish unearths U.S. Treasury report calling for 'more enforcement' of citizenship expatriation tax compliance

23-page EU Council 'working paper' on AEOI regs emerges, prompting concerns

IRS issues new Economic Impact Payments 'text scam' alert

New anti-extraterritorial taxation expat organization forms; launches survey

Dutch media, politicians' focus returns to Dutch 'accidentals' and their bank account issues

Retired, 'unintentionally American' former KLM pilot may lose bank account due to FATCA

Dutch finance minister’s answers to latest questions leave already-frustrated ‘accidentals’ reeling

Concern over FBAR data confidentiality in wake of ‘FinCEN Files’ exposé

IRS adds languages, digital-signing capability to key forms

Andersen Global adds outposts in Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis

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Funding concerns loom for 'Jenny' as clock ticks on her possible UK FATCA appeal

Online course in September for advisers seeking to know more about advising U.S. expats

Tax webinar: 'What the two recently-published final GILTI regs mean for expat biz owners, tax pros'

A Reader Asks: ‘I’m dying to vote in the U.S. prez election! But will Uncle Sam come after me if I do?’

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