UPDATE DUBLIN VENUE:
When: Tuesday, August 12, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Where: Quaker House, Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16 MAP
UPDATE BELFAST:
When: Wednesday, August 20, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Where: Belfast Castle, Antrim Road, Belfast, Antrim, UK BT15 5GR MAP
Presenter: John Richardson, B.A., L.L.B., J.D., is a Toronto lawyer and a member of the Ontario Bar. Citizenshipsolutions.ca
Admission: Dublin €15 / Belfast £15 cash payable at the door (to cover costs).
It is estimated there are 7 million U.S. citizens living outside the United States. Some of these people don’t know that the U.S. may consider them to be citizens. The vast majority of these Americans abroad (according to U.S. law), are required to pay taxes and complete information reporting forms to the United States. Although “citizenship-based” taxation has existed for years, what is new is the enforcement.
The U.S. has enacted FATCA (“Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act”) and has signed IGA’s (Intergovernmental Agreements) in many European countries including Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Financial institutions across the globe will be required to identify accounts of “US Persons.” Starting July 1, 2014, financial institutions will begin to determine what accounts are “reportable accounts.” Information regarding those accounts will be passed on to the tax agencies of each country, who will in turn, pass this information on to the IRS. These seminars will include discussion and analysis of the IRS “relaxed opportunities” for people to come into compliance and will focus on:
Citizenship Issues:
Are you a US citizen?
Are you still a US citizen?
Are your children US citizens?
What is an Accidental American?
Tax Issues:
Filing US tax returns
What is involved?
Filing information returns (FBAR, 8938, 3520A & 3520, 5471, 8621 etc)
Reasonable cause (avoiding penalties)
Financial Planning Issues:
Treatment of tax-deferred savings plans
Treatment of Mutual Funds (PFICs)
Privacy Issues:
What might FATCA mean for me?
Border Issues:
Will FATCA make it harder for me to cross the border?
Does it make sense to give up US citizenship?
Relinquishment
Renouncing
Information presented is NOT intended or offered as legal or accounting advice specific to your situation.
@ Tricia or Admin.
I think all the BOLD letters here have spread to other parts of Brock. It’s like an Enbolda virus. 🙂
EmBee,
I had a look and I’ll have to leave it to Tricia so as not to mess up her post. It was probably a copy/paste into the post so has different coding than is provided for me to work with. I would have to take all that out and put other in to tell the post how to behave. Wonder if this one too will come out in Enbolda. (Yep, it did as well.)
Ooops, I answered you guys via email instead of here. Studying is frying my brain. Forgot to close one & look what it does! And no, I don’t copy and paste for html stuff, I type it for the stuff not on the toolbar and of course, use the toolbar when option is offered.
Thanks for pointing it out and as usual Madame EmBee, your way with words is so funny!
@ Tricia
My “way with words” misses the mark sometimes/oftentimes. I meant to type Ebolda not Enbolda. Oh well, you cured the virus. That’s the main thing. You are one busy bee these days so a slight html slip is quite understandable. Good luck with that exam and I hope your move was smooth! 🙂