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Introduction: It’s tax reform season and Senator Orrin Hatch wants to hear from you (again)

As reported on the Isaac Brock Society and other digital resources for those impacted by U.S. taxes, you have until July 17, 2017 to tell Senator Hatch what you think needs to be changed in the Internal Revenue Code. After great deliberation, it occurred to me that people who either are (or are accused of being) U.S. citizens or Green Card holders living outside the United States, might want the USA to stop taxing them. After all, they already pay taxes to the countries where they reside. This is your opportunity to “Let your voices be heard” (well maybe).

The Senate Finance Committee is yet again asking the general public to send comments on tax reform. The deadline is July 17, and the email address is taxreform2017@finance.senate.gov.

https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/hatch-calls-for-feedback-on-tax-reform

(July 17, 2017 is coming quickly. Please take a few moments to send your thoughts to Senator Hatch. Tell him you feel about FATCA, citizenship-based taxation, FBAR, etc.)

Speaking of “tax reform”: Introducing Jackie Bugion

Jackie Bugnion is a U.S. citizen who has lived in Switzerland for many many years. She has been a tireless advocate for “residence based taxation”. She worked with “American Citizens Abroad” for many years and has recently retired. She was recently honored with the Eugene Abrams Award by ACA- an event that was the subject of a post at the Isaac Brock Society – that described her many achievements (over a long career).

She was the principal organizer of the “Conference on Citizenship Taxation”
which took place in Toronto, Canada in May of 2014. The Conference was widely discussed on the Isaac Brock Society here and here. The live video of the “Kirsch Schneider debate” is here.

I have reproduced a number of her written submissions and posts on this blog, specifically:

Jackie Bugnion – 2013 Submission to the House Ways and Means Committee – Explains the upcoming New American Revolution

The submission referenced in the above tweet describes the history of the construction of the U.S. “fiscal prison” brick by legislative brick!
(Forward it to anybody and everybody with a interest in this.)
 
Jackie has returned with her 2017 submission to Senator Hatch.
 
Jackie Bugnion 2017 submission to Chairman Hatch – reproduced with permission of Jackie Bugnion

 

Jacqueline Bugnion

 

Submission to Chairman Hatch’s request for tax reform proposals

Adopt residence-based taxation (RBT) for Americans resident overseas

 

The Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee have both cited the need to review the way that the United States taxes its citizens and green card holders who reside overseas.
The current policy known as citizenship-based taxation (CBT) is increasingly called into question as it taxes Americans on their worldwide income irrespective of their residence, domestic or overseas. I am an American citizen who has resided overseas for 52 years, as my husband is a foreigner. I have personally observed the devastating consequences of CBT on Americans abroad and strongly urge Congress to adopt residence-based taxation (RBT).

What is RBT?
Under RBT, the U.S. would tax its citizens and green card holders who reside abroad the same way that the U.S. currently taxes non-resident aliens, i.e. through taxation of U.S.-source income only. FDAP (Fixed, Determinable, Annual, Periodic) income would be taxed largely through withholding at source by the paying agent. Effectively connected U.S.-source earned income would be reported on Form 1040NR and taxed under U.S. income tax rules.
Foreign-source income would not be taxable.

RBT would apply to all bona-fide overseas residents.
RBT would be immediate and automatic, but would not be open to residents of Puerto Rico or to military and diplomatic personnel stationed abroad.
As an obvious anti-abuse measure, RBT would not be available to residents of designated tax havens. RBT would not be compulsory; Americans abroad for a short period of time, such as academics on sabbatical, may opt to stay under CBT.

The rules for RBT are already in place as they apply to foreigners with U.S.-source income.
Withholding taxes on FDAP U.S.-source income would lead to automatic, efficient tax collection. In fact, withholding tax at source would in certain circumstances shift taxation from foreign countries to the U.S.

Shifting from CBT to RBT would be close to tax revenue neutral.
Analysis of the IRS 2555 statistics, relating to the foreign earned income exclusion reported by overseas Americans, shows that a significant share of wages and salaries of the highest income groups is U.S.-source, and hence would continue to be taxed by the U.S. under RBT. The top 1% income group account for more than 50% of all taxes paid. In addition, the U.S. today under CBT renounces most claim on tax liability on foreign earned income, by allowing foreign tax credits and the foreign earned income exclusion. These two factors and few minor ones, lead to a neutral tax revenue situation. Any possible difference between CBT and RBT would be utterly insignificant in the U.S. budget – less than 0.001% – so small that it could swing either way.

IRS enforcement costs under the current international tax system are disproportionate to revenue.
The international tax forms create burdensome filing costs for taxpayers and create heavy administrative costs for the IRS; this is terribly inefficient when the vast majority of overseas taxpayers owe no U.S. tax.

Tax collected currently under CBT, other than that linked to U.S.-source income, comes from unacceptable instances of double taxation.
Incompatibilities between the U.S. tax code and foreign tax systems lead to double taxation. The outrage of Boris Johnson, at the time Mayor of London, when the U.S. taxed the capital gain on the sale of his U.K. home illustrates this issue very well.
There are numerous examples of differences between U.S. and foreign tax systems which penalize Americans abroad. To cite just a few:

• IRS does not recognize foreign pension funds and therefore taxes
all contributions; it treats income generated over the years as coming from a PFIC fund, guaranteeing a negative return.

• U.S. legislates double taxation in the cases of the NIIT and the
Additional Medicare Tax since neither allow foreign tax credits. This is particularly cynical since these taxes aim to finance U.S. medical care; Americans abroad pay into their foreign health programs and are excluded from the Affordable Care Act.

• Some countries have a wealth tax on all net assets instead of a
capital gains tax on securities investments. The U.S. taxes the capital gains, but does not allow foreign tax credits against this income.

• Definitions of what is an income tax and what is a social
security tax varies enormously from country to country, with onerous tax consequences for U.S. citizens abroad.

• All OECD countries, except the U.S., have replaced sales taxes by
VAT, which can range up to 20% of the price of goods and services purchased. The U.S. does not recognize VAT paid as compensation for the U.S. tax liability, even though it does accept deduction of U.S. state sales tax.

• Entrepreneurs in countries without a totalization agreement are
subject to double contributions to social security, in the foreign country and in the U.S.

Beyond the immediate issue of taxation, moving from CBT to RBT would have major advantages for Americans abroad, at essentially no cost or lost revenue to the U.S.:

• CBT tax law and related FATCA asset and revenue reporting
requirements amount to a bank lockout for Americans abroad. FATCA reporting rules imposed by the U.S. on foreign financial institutions, accompanied by draconian penalties for non-compliance, strongly discourage foreign banks from accepting American citizens as clients.
In addition, the U.S. Patriot Act know-your-client requirements have effectively cut off Americans abroad from access to U.S. financial institutions. It is difficult to function without a bank account in today’s world.

• FBAR and Form 8938 reporting requirements shut off employment and
investment opportunities for Americans abroad. The FBAR requirement to report bank accounts with only signature authority eliminates jobs in financial positions. Foreign employers refuse to have their accounts reported to the United States, and such reporting is illegal in many countries. Form 8938 requires foreign companies in which an American holds 10% ownership to report this ownership to the IRS. This measure has shut out entrepreneurial and partnership opportunities for Americans overseas.

Consequently, the number of renunciations of U.S. citizenship is skyrocketing from a few hundred in 2008 to well over 5,000 in 2016. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. The blatant discrimination and unfair treatment of Americans abroad at the hand of their own government has created massive anger and frustration in the overseas community of more than 8 million Americans. The financial burden of compliance is far in excess of reporting requirements for U.S. residents and easily runs into the thousands of dollars, which is all the more ludicrous when the vast majority have no U.S. tax liability.

Adopting RBT meets three of the four tax reform objectives cited by Senator Hatch.

• First, it provides relief to middle-class individuals and
corrects major unfairness.

• Second, it removes impediments and disincentives for savings and
investments.

• Third, it makes Americans abroad and therefore the United States
more competitive in the global economy while preserving the tax base.

I thank you for your attention to the above.

Sincerely yours,

 

Jacqueline Bugnion
July 8, 2017

 

Background

BA in Economics, Cornell University, 1962

MBA, Harvard Business School, 1964

Tax Director, American Citizens Abroad, 2003-2015

Publications

Tax Notes International, Volume 62, Number 11, June 13, 2011, Jackie Bugnion, Overseas Americans Should Have a Say in National Tax Reform Debate

Tax Notes International, Volume 66, Number 5, April 30, 2012, Jackie Bugnion, American Citizens Abroad’s Recommendation for U.S. Tax Law Reform

Tax Notes, December 1, 2014, Jackie Bugnion and Roland Crim, Thank you Mayor Boris Johnson for speaking up for many

Tax Notes, Volume 148, Number 8, August 24, 2015, Jacqueline Bugnion, Concerns About the Taxation of Americans Resident Abroad

Tax Notes, May 30, 2016, Jacqueline Bugnion and Paula N. Singer, A Proposal for Fair U.S. Tax Treatment of Foreign Pensions

100 thoughts on “Jackie Bugnion 2017 Residence Based Taxation: To Chairman Hatch’s request for tax reform proposals”

  1. “Part of her success comes from the way she delivers her message: well-reasoned, factually accurate sentences devoid of rancor and hyperbole.”

    You know what happens when a member of the US diaspora files well-reasoned, factually accurate sentences on a US tax return? If you don’t know, take a look at the Taxpayer Advocate’s report to Congress on 2011-12-31.

    You know what happens when a US tax lawyer tells factually accurate sentences in court? You don’t? Neither do I. A US tax lawyer persuaded the Federal Circuit to overturn the IRS’s acceptance of our refiled 2005 tax return because I failed to fabricate a social security number for my US-non-resident-alien wife and because my wife had to rely on some US Supreme Court rulings that used to protect her fifth amendment rights. US tax lawyers frequently filed perjured declarations signed under penalty of perjury under 28 USC section 1746, I proved the perjuries, the courts did not care and US tax lawyers did not stop.

    A US tax lawyer even coerced me to commit perjury. I had to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that a 源泉徴収票 (equivalent to W-2) was true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief, even though the Japanese government and Tokyo District Court and I know that it was false and incorrect.

    If you tell the truth on a US tax return you get deprived of the refund owing to you plus you get fined penalties for frivolousness. If you lie you’re fine because 26 USC sections 7206(1) and 7207 only punish perjury that is committed willingly. You’d better not tell the truth.

    Rancor in this comment, sure. Hyperbole in this comment, no. I’m not the only one who has experienced this. Take another look at the Taxpayer Advocate’s report to Congress on 2011-12-31.

    “you’re on your own with a life situation you are probably responsible for creating”

    Yup, those fools who were born in the wrong place should have stopped their mothers from crossing the border before giving birth. And those who weren’t born in the wrong place, like Calgary411’s son…

    “Uncle Sam has no duty to bail you out of your mess just because you have to do a little more paper work so that you can enjoy your European experience”

    When I was a US citizen I FUCKING DID do the extra paper work, wasting around 10 weekends per year computing zeroes and telling the truth about my best efforts to contend with impossible calculations before coming up with those zeroes, when I foolishly didn’t know that it was illegal to tell the truth on a US tax return. AND I avoided retirement plans because I knew the US would just tax anything that my country of residence intended to encourage.

    Does Uncle Sam have a duty to let our people go? The Expatriation Act of 1868 says yes.

    “Governments all over the free world know that in order to do their jobs, they have to follow the money.”

    Yup. That’s why the IRS refuses to audit me and courts deny my motions to force the IRS to do so. If they looked for the withholdings that Ameritrade reported on Forms 1099 and 1042-S, they’d find the embezzlers who stole from me, and they can’t allow that.

    If the US enforced its laws, jails would probably hold more US tax lawyers (IRS and Department of Justice) than data entry clerks (Monica Hernandez and cohorts) and Taxpayer Advocate agents (Nakeisha Hall) and Criminal Investigation agents (Donald Centreal Smith). Notice the ring leaders haven’t been caught? I think you’re excused from this one, 30 year IRS vet, because the Department of Justice has given some clues that they’re the ones in charge.

  2. @ Robert Ross
    Do you know if that statement was made before there was any whiff of FATCA in the air? Actually Jackie’s efforts on the RBT and anti-FATCA fronts have been so outstanding that I don’t care when it was and I don’t think it is unreasonable anyway. I’d like to think that if my Canadian parents had been overseas when I was born that their Canadian citizenship would have been automatically transmitted to me. The big glitch for Americans is that transmitting their citizenship is also transmitting perpetual US tax obligations. Jackie wants that remedied as much as we all do.

  3. @ badger
    Your striking statement made me laugh and wince at the same time. It highlights that American example of total absurdity where someone who actually resides outside the USA can be considered to be a US resident.

  4. @Embee
    I do not have a date for that but it came throught the AARO. Regretably,and in spite of your congratulatory mood for Ms Jackie, I can’t help thinking of the many people’s misery that could have been averted if not for her desire to enshrine US citzenship,wanted or not.
    You can congratulate all you want but the rules of entropy always apply. It is easier to create a mess than fix it.

    I’m tired of academic accolades to Harvard MBAs,especially those who knew about CBTs and probably profited from it.Why didn’t she lobby jus as strongly to eliminate CBT?
    Please ,please ,no more accolades to academics,economists for saying something that is self evident.

  5. Sorry, Robert, but gift horses are a rare breed and I can’t help but be grateful for even those who disappoint on a few points. Remember we are now using our hindsight. If I had had any foresight 35 years ago I would never have crossed the US border with my then American groom.

  6. @Embee
    You are very forgiving indeed.
    If you used your hindsight ,you would have never left Canada.
    I came here fifty years ago and in hindsight I am glad that I never went back,except for short vacations.

    Interesting, hindsight can used not only to recall regrets but sometimes to reaffirm the past .

    Unfortunately,in hindsight, Jackie,unwittingly,helped to create that sticky citzenship that FATCA uses so effectively.

  7. @Robert Ross

    Citizenship: All Americans should enjoy an equal right to transmit U.S. citizenship to their children at birth, including children born to or adopted by a U.S. citizen abroad. Children born abroad should be defined as “naturalborn” U.S. citizens.

    I do not have a date for that but it came throught the AARO. Regretably,and in spite of your congratulatory mood for Ms Jackie, I can’t help thinking of the many people’s misery that could have been averted if not for her desire to enshrine US citizenship,wanted or not.

    This appears in these two places:

    https://aaro.org/2017/images/goals/Goals_2010.pdf

    https://www.aaro.org/148-position-papers-2015/497-citizenship-of-children-born-abroad

    Neither indicate this statement came from Jackie. Jackie is not affiliated with AARO.

    ACA is NOT responsible for children born abroad obtaining US citizenship. It has existed in US law in various forms since at least 1934. Andy Sundberg founded the American Children’s Citizenship Rights League (ACCRL) in 1977 in order to try and change the law requiring US citizens born abroad having to reside in the US for a required number of years. I have never seen any reference to Jackie being a part of that.I fail to see how anyone could infer that there is anyone to “blame” for this outside of Congress/US law.

    Can you provide some substantial proof for your claims regarding Jackie?

    I’m tired of academic accolades to Harvard MBAs,especially those who knew about CBTs and probably profited from it.Why didn’t she lobby jus as strongly to eliminate CBT?

    I’m tired of people criticizing those who spent years of their lives working to improve our situation. It is outrageous to imply that she “probably profited from it.” CBT was not an issue until the US decided to enforce it circa 2009. Ms. Bugnion retired from employment in 2003 long before this mess started. Her work with ACA has focused on RBT. Please take the time to read her papers.

    Please ,please ,no more accolades to academics,economists for saying something that is self evident

    How about no more unsupported statements badmouthing the good guys and some comparable action on your part other than criticism on a blog?

  8. @ Patricia Moon
    You are indeed, as someone has recently noted, formidable and thank goodness you keep finding the strength to maintain your stamina during this excrutiatingly long run at bringing down FATCA and CBT.

  9. I am not sure what the Citizenship Statute says but Citizenship Based Taxation goes back to the Civil War where it was used by the federal government against peoplle who were allegedly fleeing the draft.

  10. “Citizenship Based Taxation goes back to the Civil War”

    Yes it does, along with suspension of habeus corpus. The US’s involvement in other countries’ civil wars hasn’t resulted in suspension of habeus corpus, right? Also other countries’ civil wars don’t persuade them to engage in CBT of their refugees.

    I agree with you that the mindset in DC isn’t going to change, but I wonder why you put on rose coloured glasses when talking about them.

  11. Thank you so much, Jackie Bugnion. Your submission is admired and supported by me. I only wish I could have written one nearly as good….

    And thank you, too, to Tricia and Badger and Embee, and many others here who work positively to make things better, one step at a time over this long and exhausting road….

    Onwards and upwards! Surgite! and THANK YOU!

  12. This might be useful for the submissions. The letters below are from professional bodies on both sides of the Canada US border, and attest to clear instances of double taxation that the current treaty does NOT protect people from. Both the US and Canada are well aware of this. The US trumpets its version of tax free or tax advantaged education, and now disability savings plans, but will not exempt the parallel version belonging to Canadians.

    Canadians with the US taxable burden of UStaxablepersonhood might want to include copies of these letters which attest to significant instances and unwarranted punitive treatment of Canadian RESPs, RDSPs and TFSAs, as well as IRAs to representatives on both sides of the border. Both the Canadian and the US government have clearly been made aware of the punitive treatment of Canadian disability, education, and TFSA savings, by the CPA, the AICPA, and AmCham Canada, but neither government has acted to protect Canadians unjustly burdened:

    Note that the CPA letter below went to Brian Ernewein (who defended the FATCA IGA in Canada – search for his name in openparliament.ca) and Kevin Shoom of Finance, who we sent submissions to in opposition to FATCA (in vain).

    https://www.cpacanada.ca/-/media/site/operational/mr-media-releases/docs/feb-25-2016letter-to-finance-canadauscanada-tax-deferred-planssigned.pdf

    http://www.aicpa.org/advocacy/cpaadvocate/2016/pages/us-canada-cross-border-accounts.aspx
    http://www.aicpa.org/Advocacy/Tax/DownloadableDocuments/2016-03-04-comments-on-proposed-tax-relief-us-can-equivalent-purpose-def-tax-savings-plans.pdf

  14. .
    @Patricia Moon

    Citizenship: All Americans should enjoy an equal right to transmit U.S. citizenship to their children at birth, including children born to or adopted by a U.S. citizen abroad. Children born abroad should be defined as “naturalborn” U.S. citizens.

    That is from the AARO. I could not relocate the reference to Jackie B.

    I did not say that she is affiliated with the AARO. Howerver, she partnered with them.

    Clearly,if you research back to the turn of the millennium and before ,you will find references for what the ACA,AARO, stood for and clearly they were for liberalizing citizenship laws.However, I am not privy or have access to go further. Nor the time.
    I would think that Jackie B. was preaching from the same pulpit. You could ask her directly,without getting gray hairs doing the research, and I am sure what the answer would be.

    “ACA is NOT responsible for children born abroad obtaining US citizenship. It has existed in US law in various forms since at least 1934”
    Yes, we know that but we also know that the various retention laws fell to the wayside due to the encouragement of the groups above.
    Now don’t tell that that the ACA doesn’t share responsibility ! They lobbied for those changes. In Washington, lobbying is what everything is about..

    ‘I’m tired of people criticizing those who spent years of their lives working to improve our situation.
    So your situation has improved ,has it ?

    “CBT was not an issue until the US decided to enforce it circa 2009.”
    Only because it was not enforced.I knew about it when I came here fifty years ago.and so did Jackie B. And now we have “rigourized’ CBT .

    “How about no more unsupported statements badmouthing the good guys and some comparable action on your part other than criticism on a blog?”

    I would call it putting things into perspective. As for criticism.It seem to be a dying breed here.

  15. Some chatter on Twitter is that the mailbox is full.

    t is Sunday in D.C., so hopefully when folks get back to work on Monday they will expand the mailbox size.

  16. @ 30 Year IRS Vet
    “I am not sure what the Citizenship Statute says but Citizenship Based Taxation goes back to the Civil War where it was used by the federal government against peoplle who were allegedly fleeing the draft.”

    YES, ESPECIALLY THE RICH DRAFTEES.

  17. Actually, the fact that CBT was used to PUNiSH draft dodgers during the civil war just goes to show that it was always meant as a punishment. Not about any “fair share” or anything fair. I mean, in that context, what are expats being punished for now?

  18. @Robert Ross

    Obviously I know the quote is from AARO given I provided two links. The two places I found your exact quote do not provide such a reference.You cannot attribute a quote to someone without a direct reference.

    I am fully aware of the role the expat groups played in changing the retention requirements.My problem with your comments is you are focusing that on Jackie rather than the groups in general.She may have “preached from the same pulpit but as you say you “would think that.” Not good enough to criticize her directly for it. I have met and worked with her. You are simply way off base about her.

    You have missed my point entirely. If you have devoted the same amount of effort as Jackie has, in 50 years you’ve known about CBT, perhaps then you would be entitled to place blame. If you come here and complain based on sloppy thinking, I would hardly call that “putting things in perspective.”

    Criticizing for the sake of bitching is not and never has been, what Brock is about.

  19. ‘Children born abroad should be defined as “naturalborn” U.S. citizens.’

    They are. Although the 14th amendment speaks of birth in the US and naturalization, it doesn’t specify which kinds of naturalization count as naturalborn. Congress gets to define naturalization and could, if they wished, which kinds of naturalization (such as automatic naturalization by being born abroad to parent(s) who qualify as infected) would count as naturalborn. Though it seems no one defines naturalborn, a vice president was elected who was born in US territory to parent(s) who qualified as infected, so the US proved that such a birth counts as naturalization.

    But I have to wonder, why do you still want them to be defined as naturalborn now when we know the kind of damage that infection causes? Or were you quoting AARO but forgot to attach quotation marks and attribution?

  20. Sigh.

    I typoed: “so the US proved that such a birth counts as naturalization.”

    That part was obvious; Congress does that part of it.

    I meant to type: “so the US proved that such a birth counts as naturalborn.”

  21. ‘Actually, the fact that CBT was used to PUNiSH draft dodgers during the civil war just goes to show that it was always meant as a punishment. Not about any “fair share” or anything fair. I mean, in that context, what are expats being punished for now?’

    They punish us for using Forms 2555 and 1116 to avoid paying double shares of the cost of the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, ignoring the fact that we already paid our shares when taxes in our countries of residence were donated to the US and homelanders blamed our countries of residence for “checkbook diplomacy”.

  22. Tax submission email for 2017 Submission / How CRAZY that for DAYS the official email; is bouncing (filled) this WILL not represent true #s being sent in / bcc assistants below get your opinion heard QUICK

    postmaster@routing.senate.gov

    Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:

    taxreform2017@finance.senate.gov

    Senate Finance Committee

    https://www.finance.senate.gov/about/membership Senator and assistant

    Chuck Grassley(R – IA) chris_conlin@grassley.senate.gov

    Mike Crapo(R – ID) mike_quickel@crapo.senate.gov

    Pat Roberts(R – KS) chris_allen@roberts.senate.gov

    Michael B. Enzi(R – WY) bart_massey@enzi.senate.gov

    John Cornyn(R – TX) andrew_siracuse@cornyn.senate.gov

    Richard Burr(R – NC) natasha_hickman@burr.senate.gov

    Johnny Isakson(R – GA) monica_mcguire@isakson.senate.gov

    Rob Portman(R – OH) zachary_rudisill@portman.senate.gov

    Patrick J. Toomey(R – PA) richard_morgan@toomey.senate.gov

    Dean Heller(R – NV) victoria_glover@heller.senate.gov

    Tim Scott(R – SC) tim_scott@scott.senate.gov

    Bill Cassidy(R – LA)

    John Thune(R – SD)

    Assistant emails ? bcc. ??????????

    james_williams@hatch.senate.gov,
    chris_conlin@grassley.senate.gov,
    mike_quickel@crapo.senate.gov,
    chris_allen@roberts.senate.gov,
    bart_massey@enzi.senate.gov,
    andrew_siracuse@cornyn.senate.gov,
    natasha_hickman@burr.senate.gov,
    monica_mcguire@isakson.senate.gov,
    zachary_rudisill@portman.senate.gov,
    richard_morgan@toomey.senate.gov,
    victoria_glover@heller.senate.gov,
    tim_scott@scott.senate.gov,

    Some other Senate assistant emails

    anna_taylor@schumer.senate.gov,
    sarah_shive@stabenow.senate.gov,
    artie_mandel@cantwell.senate.gov,
    jason_tuber@menendez.senate.gov,
    chris_prendergast@carper.senate.gov,
    beth_bell@cardin.senate.gov,
    gideon_bragin@brown.senate.gov,
    brian_appel@bennet.senate.gov,
    livia_shmavonian@casey.senate.gov,
    maureen_downes@warner.senate.gov,

    Some assistants Congressional Staff Directory

    matt.stross@mail.house.gov,
    josh.jackson@mail.house.gov,
    abby.pezzi@mail.house.gov,
    mike.stober@mail.house.gov,
    robert.vega@mail.house.gov,
    robert.cogan@mail.house.gov,
    drew.wayne@mail.house.gov,
    lori.prater@mail.house.gov,
    randy.herndon@mail.house.gov,
    emily.delmorone@mail.house.gov,
    jamila.thompson@mail.house.gov,
    brandon.casey@mail.house.gov,
    jasmine.vasquez@mail.house.gov,
    amanda.tyler@mail.house.gov,
    vernon.baker@mail.house.gov,
    david.sitcovsky@mail.house.gov,
    laura.thrift@mail.house.gov,
    hana.greenberg@mail.house.gov,
    elaina.houser@mail.house.gov,
    kevin.casey@mail.house.gov,
    jill.hunter-williams@mail.house.gov,
    melissa.kiedrowicz@mail.house.gov,

  23. NOTE : Submissions may be made to the Senate Finance Committee at taxreform2017@finance.senate.gov. The deadline to respond is July 17, 2017. Also state how CRAZY that for DAYS the official email; is bouncing (filled) this WILL not represent true #s being sent in As they may state query was NOT sent to the correct email address

  25. My bad do not forget to include Minority Senate Finance people

    Minority Senate Finance Committee Senate assistant emails
    Minority

    Debbie Stabenow(D – MI) sarah_shive@stabenow.senate.gov
    Maria Cantwell(D – WA) artie_mandel@cantwell.senate.gov
    Robert Menendez(D – NJ) jason_tuber@menendez.senate.gov
    Thomas R. Carper(D – DE) chris_prendergast@carper.senate.gov
    Cardin Benjamin L. Cardin(D – MD) beth_bell@cardin.senate.gov
    Brown Sherrod Brown(D – OH) gideon_bragin@brown.senate.gov
    Michael F. Bennet(D – CO) brian_appel@bennet.senate.gov
    Robert P. Casey, Jr.(D – PA) livia_shmavonian@casey.senate.gov
    Mark R. Warner(D – VA) maureen_downes@warner.senate.gov
    Claire McCaskill Claire McCaskill(D – MO)
    Bill Nelson Bill Nelson(D – FL)

    Assistant emails ? bcc. ??????????

    sarah_shive@stabenow.senate.gov,
    artie_mandel@cantwell.senate.gov,
    jason_tuber@menendez.senate.gov,
    chris_prendergast@carper.senate.gov,
    beth_bell@cardin.senate.gov,
    gideon_bragin@brown.senate.gov,
    brian_appel@bennet.senate.gov,
    livia_shmavonian@casey.senate.gov,
    maureen_downes@warner.senate.gov,

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