[We now have a NEW POST taking us up to February 1, 2015. This post will be retired from service.]
THE AUTUMN 2014 UPDATE
Dear Donors,
Together, we reached our goal of $100,000 to pay the November 1 legal bill 11 days ahead of schedule!
Thank you Canadian donors from coast to coast and our friends from around the world for your generosity, support and determination — and especially for not being afraid.
The name of our non-profit corporation is the “Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereignty.”
We were very deliberate in including in our name the word “sovereignty”, which forms a cornerstone of our Claims against the Government of Canada.
Canada and dozens of other countries throughout the world gave into a bully because their “leaders” were afraid of harm caused by a trading “partner” — and they gave their sovereignties away.
Help us convince by example the Leaders and Governments of all countries worldwide that they should return their sovereignties back to their Peoples.
Please continue to support our lawsuit.
“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” (Helen Keller)
— Plaintiffs Ginny and Gwen, and the ADCS-ADSC team
Chers donateurs,
Ensemble, nous avons atteint notre but d’amasser 100 000 $ pour payer notre facture légale du 1er novembre 11 jours d’avance !
Un gros merci à vous, donateurs canadiens, et à nos amis de tous les coins du monde pour votre grande générosité, soutien et détermination. Et surtout pour votre courage.
Le nom de notre organisme sans but lucratif est « l’Alliance pour la défense de la souveraineté canadienne ».
Nous avons choisi délibérément le mot « souveraineté » puisqu’il constitue la base fondamentale de nos revendications envers le gouvernement du Canada.
Le Canada et des dizaines d’autres pays se sont pliés devant l’intimidation des États-Unis parce que leurs « leaders » ont eu peur des menaces de notre « partenaire » commercial. Ils ont donc vendu leur souveraineté à rabais.
Aidez-nous à convaincre les dirigeants et les gouvernements de tous ces pays qu’ils se doivent de remettre leur souveraineté à leurs peuples.
S’il vous plaît, continuez à soutenir notre cause.
« Seuls, nous pouvons faire si peu. Ensemble, nous pouvons faire beaucoup. » (Helen Keller)
— Ginny, Gwen et toute l’équipe de l’ADCS-ADSC
DONATE to www.adcs-adsc.ca (ADSC en français).
@ Wondering
What a great word — AUDACITY. About the only good attribute I credit myself with is curiosity — got a heap of that. I think I’ll add a dollop of audacity just for diving in with a few cheques made out to ADCS. However as Blaze points out, the supreme audacious duo in this lawsuit are Ginny and Gwen. Do you have another great word to describe their bravery? They’ve got a heap of that.
Another donation just sent yesterday via paypal. You will see more from me and from my family members now that they know how to go through paypal…..
@Jan
Mr Moody’s confusing ‘clever’ with ‘profitable’ (for him). Consider the source.
Here is the link to one of Kim Moody’s position papers that I referenced :
http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x/316680/tax+authorities/FATCA+A+Canadian+perspective+commentary
Bubblebustin, are you actually suggesting that Mr. Moody might have a financial conflict of interest?
I selected this paragraph from the link:
My brief commentary:
I really do not blame Mr. Moody since he is just a simple country tax practitioner who could not, like “pure” Canadians who are not tax professional “persons”, be expected to have an opinion on an esoteric issue like privacy — but if you feel that the FATCA IGA might possibly violate Canada’s privacy laws and sovereignty as a nation, please support our lawsuit.
@ Stephen Kish – hahaha! “poor” Kim Moody, such a simple little fellow. He’s “just trying to help” people come into compliance – Well what if citizens of other nations don’t agree that they should even do such a thing?
Moody is just another FATCA carpetbagger, same as Roy Berg.
@EmBee
Yes I am in awe of Ginny’s and Gwen’s bravery. It inspires me to contribute to the cause.
I’d describe them as true Canadian heroines.
Taking this case to court is a nightmare for the Harper Conservatives and the Canadian Financial industry. Their shame is expressed through their silence. Certainly anyone I discuss this issue with finds it outrageous and contemptible.
The banks and government tried to hide this shameful episode by creating a climate of fear. The legal action shines daylight on its ugly truth.
See how much coverage the “Dying With Dignity” issue is getting because it’s before the Supreme Court? The “betrayal of law abiding Canadians by their own government, in capitulation to a foreign state’s demand for tribute” will be in that same spotlight soon.
This his action will have international repercussions; if FATCA is unlawful in Canada, every other democracy with a bill of rights or human rights laws must take note.
NB: The Harper Conservatives sent lame duck Gerald Keddy to Finance Committee to betray his many US-born constituents’ ( US born due to cross border hospital arrangements) Charter rights. Not the first time Keddy has betrayed his constituents: in 2009, he sparked a controversy discussing immigrant labour when he remarked that “Nova Scotians won’t do it — all those no-good bastards sitting on the sidewalk in Halifax that can’t get work.”
The worst is yet to come, but when it gets better, it gets way better. Kinda like the draft dodgers who flocked to Canada, who were “criminals” wanted in U.S.A. and subject to arrest if they wandered stateside, but eventually the injustice of the war against Viet Nam and the justice of the anti-war movement prevailed and the draft resisters got amnesty.
Even so, there will be disasters.
http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/347104/withholding+tax/FATCA+and+the+LMA+A+Change+of+Approach
This discusses who is to take the losses when there 30% tax kicks in. Let’s say a U.S.A. firm borrows from a non-U.S.A. bank and owes the bank ten million dollars.
Borrower: What’s your FATCA GIIN?
Bankers: Our what?
Borrower: Oh, you’re not FATCA compliant?
Bankers: No, we have better things to do than comply with FATCA.
Borrower: Well, in that case, we’re withholding 30%, so here’s your seven million dollars.
Bankers: No dice. You agreed to pay us ten million. If you paid three million to I.R.S. that’s your problem.
See the problem? The borrower has to come up with $14,285,714.29 so that 30% is $4,285,714.29 and the net payment is ten million dollars.
Borrower: If you’re not FATCA compliant, that’s your problem.
Bankers: Not really. You have money coming to you from businesses in our country and we can have the courts here attach those payments to satisfy this debt.
Does anybody know if hospital plans are under reconsideration i.e. “We don’t need a maternity ward in that town because everybody just goes across to the U.S.A. to have their babies.” is being changed to “We need a maternity ward in that town because otherwise peop[le would have to go a long way to the nearest Canadian maternity ward. It will happen but has it started yet?
“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. ” Rosa Parks
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” Rosa Parks
“I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.” Rosa Parks
You can help swing some votes in Florida, U.S.A. and mouth off to some voters (There are 27 U.S. Representatives from Florida. The State has 2 U.S. Senators but neither is up for re-election.)
http://flvoters.com/download/20140930/VoterExtract.zip
This .zip file contains the names of 13 million registered voters in 67 county files. Recently, the State started asking people for their email addresses and 114,000 of those are on the list. This means somebody with the computer skills could address 114,000 Florida voters by name and address and other details. It isn’t unsolicited commercial. Follow the rules of your ISP. Tell the voters a lot of Canadians won’t be visiting Florida this winter because they’re scared of being arrested for FBAR violations.
It isn’t unsolicited commercial email if it isn’t commercial.
@Tom Alciere, I have been reading your stuff. This might be an offbeat comment, but Tom you are a bit like Edward Snowden, spreading information across the world, but the difference is that it is already on-line you are just letting people know. You are not an inside NSA employee with access to top-secret files. Such is the nature of the cloud.
I run websites displaying public-domain data obtained from State governments. Since I don’t know how to lock it up behind a paywall, I put it on static HTML pages and display ads on them. By State laws, this is all unrestricted, public information. In fact, the Ohio list can be downloaded from the State of Ohio’s website. The others, I order. The Utah Legislature went nuts and one privacy activist said, he told them so and they wouldn’t listen.
http://utahlegislature.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?clip_id=16824&meta_id=496228
In Canada, and most other countries, the laws restrict who can access voter lists and the uses of the information.
Brockers beware:
You’re spending money bringing yourself into compliance with U.S.A. tax laws… but while on vacation in Chegutu, Zimbabwe you’re hiking down the road and stop to buy fresh produce from the Allan Grange Farm. Even though you are a Canadian citizen, you’re one of those “U.S. Persons” who are forbidden by U.S. laws to vacation in Cuba, trade with Iran or deal with anybody on the list:
http://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/t11sdn.pdf
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/default.aspx
Not knowing that they’re on the list is no excuse. You could have checked. Not knowing that you are a U.S. person is the same as not knowing that the girl you slept with was under age.
Mostly, that list is for financial institutions to block wire transfers. But that’s now. Kinda like, a few years ago, U.S. tax laws were not for Canadians living in Canada.
BTW does anybody notice the absurdity of a Canadian banker telling you that you’re a U.S. person because your passport says you were born in U.S.A….when it’s a CANADIAN passport!
@Tom Alciere
Thank you for all the informative links you give IBS.
Re: “Mostly, that list is for financial institutions to block wire transfers. But that’s now. Kinda like, a few years ago, U.S. tax laws were not for Canadians living in Canada.”
I have my CLN so I presumed I could go anywhere I want. I have given my bank a copy of my CLN. Will be blocked from doing transfers to another country because I ate forbidden fruit in a forbidden (for US persons) country?. The bank transfer would not be to the country visited. I also like to point out I receive no money or income/pension from the USA.
Also I read the latest on the link put on IBS that an American citizen does. She resides in France and writes of the FATCA meeting in France. http://www.dreameroftheday.com/the-fatcats-discuss-fatca/
I sent this to my homelander brother and he just says the blogger can renounce since she lives there. . and that I should take up gardening. He has already wrote recently that the USA is the greatest country in the world. He just does not get it. I have pointed out the cost this blogger wrote of filing her US taxes and how the US laws are passed in the dead of night.
I might as well be speaking to a statue. It does not register in his brain. He says I am losing friends over this… and I am.
@kermitzii:
I am Edward Snowden without the courage.
@northernstar
Your brother’s reading what you are sending him. He’s engaged. Maybe he’s someone who deals in concepts, so rather than sending him another expat’s tale of woe, why not try something that demonstrates how a tax system based on citizenship vs residency weakens America? Maybe Bernard Schneider’s “End of Taxation without End” paper?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2186076
If we want homelanders to listen (and I realize that many here genuinely don’t care about that), the argument should include demonstrating how these policies only serve to shoot them in the foot by making America less secure and competitive. From your brother’s perspective the US is the greatest county on earth, but what if you could demonstrate to him that America has fallen behind even his own standard of greatness? Sometimes all it takes is a little shift in the right direction to get us to where we experience the ‘OMG moment’.
COULD someone who has news posting privileges on the IBS home page copy this piece from Roy Berg? IT’s (more) bad news for Canadians; Berg invokes various omissions and inconsistencies which necessitate clarification.
http://www.moodysgartner.com/problems-with-new-irs-procedures-for-canadian-retirement-plans-2/?utm_source=Mondaq&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=View-Original
Problems with new IRS procedures for Canadian retirement plans
Published on October 14, 2014 at 10:08, by Roy A Berg JD, LLM
On October 7, 2014 the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2014-55, which purports to make US tax filing easier for US citizens or residents who own Canadian Registered Retirement Savings Plans (“RRSPs”) or Registered Retirement Income Funds (“RRIFs”). Almost immediately, journalists and commentators breathlessly heralded the development as a softened and practical solution for individuals that own these Canadian retirement plans.
For more, please follow link
@Bubble Bustin
My brother has told me , even today, to keep my nose out of America’s business and he does the same. He says he does not give a hoot nor care about anyone who is not American. He says the USA is the greatest, the strongest and the richest country in the world.. That is good enough for him. As far as he is concerned WWII started December 7th, 1941 and the Americans beat Hitler. His daughter works for the Military Industrial industry who make the bombs and weapons. He is very proud of her. and believes in guns and god.
It must be frustrating, northernstar. Why do you bother?
IRSNEWSFORCANADIANS,
Here is a post on that subject (Bulletin: IRS relaxes reporting requirements for RRSPs and RRIFs) where Roy Berg made this comment: http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2014/10/07/bulletin-irs-relaxes-reporting-requirements-for-rrsps-and-rrifs/comment-page-1/#comment-3316160.
@ IRSNEWSFORCANADIANS
I kind of resent having a thread dedicated to ADCS funding being hijacked by a long dissertation from Roy Berg (a FATCA profiteer). There are better locations. In fact this topic has been discussed here:
http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2014/10/07/bulletin-irs-relaxes-reporting-requirements-for-rrsps-and-rrifs/
If no one objects, I can take the text of the Moodys Gartner / Roy Berg blog in comments from IRSNEWSFORCANDIANS and just direct link to the actual Moodys Gartner blog post, http://www.moodysgartner.com/problems-with-new-irs-procedures-for-canadian-retirement-plans-2/, which will make for clearer reading from that blog than a copy and paste into comments here.
@ calgary411
No objections here. Thanks!