The Isaac Brock Society

May 2013

• 20: Opportunity to draw public attention to #IRS #OVDP penalty abuse (0)
• 20: 5,000 Japanese-Americans had their U.S. citizenship restored after renouncing it (7)
• 19: AFL-CIO backed 501(c)(4) Citizens for Tax “Justice” attacks Rand Paul for calling for FATCA Repeal (13)
• 19: Mike Kelly explains why investigation into IRS just beginning (22)
• 19: Chinese author mirrors rethink on expatriate dream (0)
• 18: FATCA: Toward a Multilateral Automatic Information Reporting Regime, by Joanna Heiberg* (7)
• 17: Limiting Foreign Access To Your Bank Accounts (21)
• 16: Americans abroad banned from TradeKing (4)
• 16: Who Hides Money Outside The Country? (17)
• 16: Overseas citizens encouraged to make monetary contributions to national defence (10)
• 15: US Expatriates Should Not Be Cut Out of the Tax Debate (16)
• 15: What is Your National Identity? (45)
• 14: President should not even joke about abusing IRS power (48)
• 13: Nina Olson, National Tax Advocate, under attack by Democrat Bob Kerrey in IRS / T-party targeting scandal (53)
• 13: SnowBird Extension In US Immigration Bill (11)
• 13: Real US persons don’t get to enjoy a “Foreign Earned Income Exclusion” (9)
• 11: More bad news: FATCA Details Slowly Emerging (10)
• 10: Story on IRS Voluntary Disclosures #OVDP Results to Air May 14th on @NPRs “All Things Considered” (55)
• 10: Tax Guide for “US Persons” in Canada (29)
• 10: Judicially-denaturalised ex-Americans are subject to exit tax but do not have names published in Federal Register (1)
• 09: Bulletin from Shadow Raider – You will want to read this (62)
• 09: The enduring mystery of US #offshore cash (5)
• 09: “US Citizens are not reporting Canadian trusts.” (80)
• 09: Again, Comments on Tax Reform are requested. Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees lauch TaxReform.gov. (16)
• 08: U.S Credit Unions Endorse Sen Rand Paul’s Bill to Repeal Portions of FATCA: (32)
• 07: Senator Rand Paul Introduces Bill to Repeal FATCA! (190)
• 07: Q1 2013 Federal Register list of ex-citizens published; numerous names missing (71)
• 07: FBI releases April 2013 NICS report; January through April renunciations up by 78% against same period last year (13)
• 05: Bahrain: US Persons prohibited outdoors between 1am and 5am (30)
• 05: Renouncing US Citizenship, for tax and political reasons (41)
• 04: Aren’t those Canadian Snowbirds lucky to be able to extend their stay … or are they? (17)
• 04: Blocked at U.S. border, expatriate lives out of his car in South Surrey (14)
• 03: Fugitive Fortunes Tracked in Canada (1)
• 03: China does not allow dual citizenship, so did Deng Xiaoping’s grandson Deng Zhuodi renounce his U.S. citizenship? (5)
• 02: “Tax Evasion and the Use of Tax Havens” Report of the Standing Committee on Finance Released (5)
• 02: Accounting Today reports on growing Rand Paul FATCA controversy (34)
• 01: FATCA Response from Elizabeth May (82)
• 01: More on Opting Out of OVDI and into the Streamlined Program — the Streamlined Program Changes Once Again (53)
• 01: The history of the requirement that U.S. citizens only use U.S. passports to enter the U.S. (47)
• 01: Tina Turner relinquishes U.S. Citizenship for Swiss naturalization (9)

April 2013

• 30: Translated news: “Americans Abroad are Furious” (21)
• 30: CIBC and Wells Fargo Banks investigation by US Department of Justice through “John Doe” Summons (10)
• 30: Jack Lew continues Timmy Geithner’s tradition: gross violations of 26 USC § 6039G (12)
• 30: Americans living abroad say US tax laws punishing them (5)
• 30: The Economic Times reports on India’s FATCA IGA (5)
• 29: Technologist Lee Kai-fu goes public about 2011 renunciation of U.S. citizenship (20)
• 29: Great embassy services! (7)
• 28: Senator Paul stirs business ire over blocking of U.S. tax treaties (Businesses eager for treaties to win Senate approval) (73)
• 27: GAO report reveals OVDP minnows paid penalties of as much as 129x tax owed (88)
• 27: Horrible new “Tax Cheats Coming Clean” article by Associated Press via Huffington Post (43)
• 26: #FBAR Story Ends – Judge frees Curran after she paid willful penalty (19)
• 26: Cook v. Tait 8: Does citizenship-based taxation cross the boundaries of tax justice? (2)
• 26: Adminstrative notice: Login pre-screen (0)
• 25: @Bloombergnews Writes About #Americansabroad ‘Paying Up’ Wherever They Reside… (100)
• 25: Email from Liberal MP (10)
• 24: FATCA: Exposing the IGA Bait-and-Switch (19)
• 24: Oppose H.R. 1554: Another attempt to add FATCA complexity before the ink is dry on the original. (13)
• 24: “…most Canadians remain largely unaware of their privacy rights…” (33)
• 23: Internet sales tax bill would allow states to tax out of state retailers (15)
• 22: New questions from MEP Sophia In’t Veld on FATCA (39)
• 22: Second opportunity to communicate with US Government on Tax Reform (8)
• 20: For those of us paying attention to Just Me’s look into the future, this was discussed at the G-20 meeting on Friday: (20)
• 20: State Department self-censors criticism of Eritrean diaspora tax in 2012 Human Rights Report (31)
• 19: Banker Groups Sue Treasury, IRS Over Account Reporting Rule or (DATCA) (69)
• 19: Roger Conklin: This battle is far from over. In fact it hasn’t really begun. (3)
• 17: US banker proud to become Chinese national (15)
• 17: Immigration reform bill would repeal INA provisions on renunciation of U.S. citizenship during wartime (7)
• 17: Excellent submissions to the ways and means committee (240)
• 17: On its 31st birthday Canadian Charter of Rights Defends Against FATCA (5)
• 14: Canada’s offshore voluntary disclosure program not like #OVDP (20)
• 12: American Expats Are Now Toxic Assets (61)
• 12: US expatriates plead for relief from IRS. ACA efforts noticed by @TheHill (6)
• 12: MUST WATCH VIDEO on Accidental Americans in Canada (including Mark Matthews) (19)
• 11: Here comes “DATCA” (FATCA reciprocity) (32)
• 11: So, this Bitcoin we’re hearing about and trying to understand — what does it mean for IRS, FATCA (as well as taxation within all countries)? (13)
• 11: “Using a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut: Why FATCA Will Not Stand” Frederic Alain Behrens, University of Wisconsin (0)
• 10: The IRS and Your Email (11)
• 10: Salim Lamrani hates us immigrants and wants us to suffer (7)
• 09: FATCA and outsourcing of Canadian banks’ IT jobs — is there a connection? (30)
• 09: Linda McQuaig: On FATCA–still clueless (10)
• 08: #Americansabroad need a lobbyist for tax reform – it’s a matter of protection from Congress (15)
• 08: For best service to his ‘US Person’ clients, this financial planning professional learned and passes on information… (3)
• 08: IBS Movie Night: Amos and Andrew (1)
• 08: Green Party not united on US Financial #FATCA #Drone Strikes (10)
• 07: Canadian Snowbirds: Don’t be sitting ducks for the IRS (23)
• 07: NYT Article “Overseas Finances Can Trip Up Americans Abroad” (SWAT) (4)
• 06: Slightly Easier to Lose U.S. Citizenship if In Tokyo (4)
• 05: Allison Christians, Itai Grinberg (US Treasury/IRS) and Lee Shepperd argue about FATCA and Canada (7)
• 05: For public review and comment: DRAFT of the FATCA registration form for financial institutions (2)
• 05: American Citizens Abroad blasts FATCA in comments to House Working Groups (42)
• 04: MEP Sophia In’t Veld discusses FATCA in EU Parliament (12)
• 04: It gets worse: US PIRG wants individual states to enact their own “FATCA” legislation (13)
• 04: Leaks reveal secrets of the rich who hide cash offshore (24)
• 04: US PIRG and Carl Levin demand immediate implementation of FATCA (21)
• 04: Moodys Tax Advisors testify to IRS in Washington, DC re new US tax law which may hurt Canadian retirement plans (6)
• 04: Canadian Senator’s husband’s offshore trusts exposed (55)
• 04: FBI reports renunciations for Q1 2013 nearly doubled against Q1 2012 (5)
• 04: Canadian bank accounts are just as secret as Liechtensteinian ones (1)
• 04: FATCA: Number of Chinese becoming US citizens declines (3)
• 03: Unbelievable hypocrisy: CRA says it can’t recover tax penalties in Lichtenstein due to OUR privacy laws (9)
• 03: CBC reports that Goldman Sachs exec may be new US ambassador to Canada (7)
• 03: Bahamian technicolor dreams of US financial support for FATCA implementation (4)
• 02: Larry Lipsher speech on FATCA (citizenship-based tax) at Hong Kong FCC (31)
• 02: Daniel J. Mitchell video interview on FATCA (March 21 2013) (3)
• 02: No April Foolin’! “FATCA Is Far from a Done Deal” via @jonmatonis (4)
• 01: IRS tinkers again with “final” FATCA regulations (8)
• 01: Wealthy US dogs abroad don’t bark FBARs (2)

March 2013

• 31: Salvation lies in becoming a #whistleblower (3)
• 31: America still hates citizenship-based taxation! (20)
• 30: 9-Year-Old Philosopher Ponders the Meaning of Life and the Universe (3)
• 29: Doug Horner to Jim Flaherty: See you in court (1)
• 29: FATCA rules on non-U.S. retirement plans encourage national origin discrimination in employment (6)
• 28: Thomas Jefferson Award 2012 via @ACAVoice #Americansabroad (18)
• 28: #americansabroad should NOT be an executor of will (11)
• 28: Top Credit Union Group Calls for FATCA Repeal! (30)
• 27: Roughly four thousand people per year relinquished U.S. citizenship in the 1950s and 1960s (8)
• 27: The Ponsonby Rule and how it affects a US Canada IGA (20)
• 27: Don’t Forget the US Gift Tax Returns if You Gifted Last Year (5)
• 26: What FATCA will do to Canada and Canadians who are not US persons (32)
• 25: Question and Answer on FATCA in the European Parliament (15)
• 24: Anti #FATCA BRIC nations building political clout and alliance (53)
• 23: The $60,000 IRS Star Trek video (16)
• 23: National Law Review article includes Canada in list of forthcoming FATCA IGA’s (18)
• 22: Letting go and moving on – how to deal with the anger (50)
• 22: When law becomes a substitute for morality (27)
• 22: U.S. consulate claims CLN issuance “normally takes two to four weeks” (40)
• 22: Obama Compares Israeli-Palestinian Conflict to Arguments Between U.S. and Canada (22)
• 21: Body Language and FATCA Compliance Conferences (29)
• 21: Canadian Budget mention of FATCA (16)
• 21: ACA Calls for Support of Residency Based Taxation (RBT) in House Ways and Means Tax Reform Efforts (105)
• 21: US Renunciations In Switzerland for 2012 (30)
• 20: Swiss to Vote on Initiative to Return Gold Stored in the US to Switzerland, New Initiative Being Drafted to Protect Bank Secrecy (7)
• 20: American Semites are being thrown out of American banks (10)
• 20: Occasioned by the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war, A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz (11)
• 20: A man who renounced U.S. citizenship in 2004 to protest the occupation of Iraq (6)
• 20: Not all #americansabroad are tax cheats – lawyer says (11)
• 19: From Moodys Tax Advisors Blog: “Is Divorcing Uncle Sam Right for You?” (80)
• 19: Newest Mopsick post – your thoughts on the perspective from the homeland? (41)
• 18: Jim Flaherty on #Cyprus #FATCA (22)
• 18: UPDATED: Can Canada’s Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act (R.S.C.,1985, c.F-29) Fend Off FATCA? (36)
• 18: Will We See a “#StandwithRand Paul Moment” in Ottawa? (9)
• 17: Listen carefully to March 21/13 Canada Budget for Support for #FATCA IGA (23)
• 17: China: the American Dream has become the American Nightmare (3)
• 16: National Origin Discrimination is Prohibited by Many Constitutions, Charters, and Declarations Around the World (37)
• 16: Silently stripped of UK citizenship, assassinated by US, yet no proof of guilt (7)
• 15: Update: What the New Zealand IRD “working group” is thinking about FATCA IGA. Not encouraging (24)
• 15: Swiss Social Democratic Party Demands Reciprocity (20)
• 15: US may double-tax Canadian resident Canadian earned income when flying directly to UK (no FEIE) (8)
• 15: How FATCA threatens to derail the American economy (4)
• 14: House Ways and Means Committee Discussing Tax Reform at Full Speed Now (51)
• 14: Belgian Cabinet Minister re-iterates strong support for FATCA IGA (4)
• 14: America’s treasured National Origin Discrimination is illegal in Russia (20)
• 14: The hilarious origins of the “China wants FATCA in order to fight domestic corruption” meme (5)
• 14: Exclusive: U.S. plans to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances (7)
• 12: Constitutional expert Peter Hogg denounces FATCA IGA as violation of Canadian Charter Rights and Freedoms: The Best News We’ve Heard Since This Nightmare Began! (147)
• 12: Emigrants from the United States should not take the advice of U.S. immigration lawyers (29)
• 12: Response from Swiss State Secretariat for International Financial Matters, Swiss Parliamentary Vote on FATCA IGA to Take Place Next Summer, Proposed Swiss Federal Law to Apply FATCA (30)
• 11: John Paulson, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Persons abroad (5)
• 10: Ex-President of Novartis Daniel Vasella leaves Switzerland for the USA (6)
• 10: Patriotism, disloyalty, renunciation and the relation among them (28)
• 10: SWAT–Switzerland IGA: Still not enough information available in Switzerland. (33)
• 08: Getting a U.S. residence visa after giving up citizenship (84)
• 08: Carl Levin to Retire From Office (18)
• 07: America’s treasured National Origin Discrimination has reached Thailand (10)
• 07: Trapped US citizen born in Canada: What should he do? (36)
• 07: And back on the OVDP front, just when you thought it was safe (108)
• 06: Classic Mr Smith Goes to Washington filibuster against Drones and CIA nomination @SenRandPaul #StandwithRand (46)
• 06: “US citizenship is a problem to be solved”, but how to do it in this case? (96)
• 05: Michael Miller paper on the Exit Tax – Applies prospectively (27)
• 05: Possible Canadian tax relief for US persons in Canada (18)
• 04: Former Greek minister gets eight years and €500,000 fine for failing to declare an aggregate of €100,000 in assets (13)
• 04: FBI statistics say 478 renounced U.S. citizenship in February 2013 (13)
• 04: China rejects America’s treasured National Origin Discrimination (23)
• 02: RAKBank is warning US persons and Citibank declined to comment (3)
• 02: Americans renouncing citizenship to became British thanks to tax rise (41)
• 02: Family planning for US citizens abroad and Green Card Holders resident in the US (28)
• 02: Not just FEIE cuts: Homelanders propose more tax hikes on U.S. Persons abroad (31)
• 01: Children of immigrants to America denounce children of immigrants to Canada as tax “loophole” abusers (32)
• 01: The US has become the most disfunctional democracy in the world (7)

February 2013

• 28: Gold Vaults are now rejecting Americans too! (26)
• 28: NDP Response to FATCA (60)
• 28: Obamacare tax on unearned income cannot be offset by foreign tax credits! (28)
• 28: While Canada considers FATCA IGA with US, it resists similar pressure from Europe – What gives? (1)
• 27: Cisco CEO says Harper “Gets It” Obama: “Doesn’t Get It” (10)
• 26: Shall We Join Overseas American Groups Uniting to Support HR 597? (56)
• 26: EU Tax Chief Urges U.S. Support for Transactions Levy @BloombergNews (3)
• 24: For those who think the Democrats hate only #americansabroad (16)
• 23: Are you suggesting that citizenship is a disability? (15)
• 22: Renunciant wins FOIA case over Trusted Traveler Program card denial (5)
• 22: FATCA: the “Fear And Total Confusion Act” @repealfatca (7)
• 22: President Carter believes in Human Rights and #Americansabroad (4)
• 22: @Bloomberg: “Cost of Dropping Citizenship Keeps U.S. Earners From Exit” (26)
• 22: Could China kill FATCA via @nigeljgreen (30)
• 21: FATCA Overreach Sabotages American Global Competitiveness (8)
• 20: Taxpayer advocate uses bully pulpit to blast IRS @politico by @laurennfrench (2)
• 19: Grand Jury Probing Foreign Bank Accounts (10)
• 19: Karzai’s Brother Renounces U.S. Citizenship To Enter Afghan Politics — Covered Expatriate or “Untouchable” (5)
• 19: Foreign asset reporting before FBAR and FATCA: “loyalty questionnaires” for World War II Japanese American internees (8)
• 18: The Myth of the Rich Who Flee From Taxes @nytimesglobal (13)
• 18: The Underground Railway — 2013 Version (0)
• 18: L’Amérique des Prédateurs (1)
• 18: Renewing Your US Passport? BEWARE — State Department Turns Over Your Social Security Number & Location to the IRS (10)
• 18: One Divorce You’ll Never Get @HuffingtonPost (15)
• 18: America’s treasured National Origin Discrimination has found a home in the Emirates (10)
• 17: Is America now the largest and most secret tax haven? (3)
• 16: US government wants the power to shut off Internet traffic (7)
• 16: Pre-1995 Relinquishers and the IRS: Three Recent Legal Opinions (23)
• 16: Email blitz (110)
• 16: Sharp uptick in names missing from Federal Register “published expatriates” list after 2006 (9)
• 16: Public Briefing on FATCA (27)
• 15: H.R. 597: To establish a commission to study how Federal laws and policies affect U.S. citizens living in foreign countries. (11)
• 15: Devin Nunes R-CA named chair International Tax “Working Group” Good or Bad? (7)
• 15: The world according to Florida – Inside not looking out! (8)
• 15: Changes in law, follow changes in society: Cornell Law School introduces course on “Whistle Blowers” (2)
• 14: Treasury, Switzerland Sign ‘so called” Bilateral Agreement (IGA) to Improve Tax Compliance, Combat International Tax Evasion and Implement FATCA (41)
• 14: FATCA Overreach Will Sabotage American Global Competitiveness by Andrew Quinlan (7)
• 14: Former Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney Explains How Free Trade Necessitated Tax Reform – Lesson for U.S.? (12)
• 14: We are dead!! (34)
• 14: Free Movement for U.S. Goods But Not for U.S. Citizens? (14)
• 14: Too Big to Prosecute? The unfinished business of Wall Street prosecutions. The Untouchables. (16)
• 13: CTV will be taping tommorow’s hearing on tax havens in Ottawa(Cockfield, Murphy, CBA, and others) (28)
• 13: Canada considers revoking Canadian citizenship (6)
• 13: Art Cockfield vs Dennis Howlett vs Richard Murphy vs Canadian Bankers Assocation (1)
• 13: Thoughts on the 2013 State of The Union Address (7)
• 13: Should You Renounce Your Citizenship? (25)
• 13: FBI says three thousand renounced US citizenship last quarter, but IRS claims it was just 45 (85)
• 13: Correspondence between Swedish Citizen and Political Secretary of a Controlling Party in Sweden (79)
• 12: American Citizens Abroad (ACA) Visits Washington to Press for Residency-Based Taxation (30)
• 12: Should Americans Emigrate or Defect? (8)
• 12: Cayman Islands investment snags Jack Lew nomination (11)
• 12: Victoria given green light to go to OECD meeting. (14)
• 11: Harper Conservatives back down on E-Snooping. Is FATCA next? (9)
• 11: Audio: Are you a Tax Criminal? How Expats Deal with U.S. Tax Laws (1)
• 11: Canada and the US: Citizenship, terrorism and linking the two (8)
• 11: Americans’ 90% tax rate (4)
• 11: Financial Times: Brussels fights US data privacy push (5)
• 11: Ex-Pentagon chief Gates OK with drone oversight (1)
• 11: Pakistan hatches scheme to claw back tax (2)
• 10: Time for a big push at the NDP! (and other parties) (4)
• 10: Statistics on people giving up U.S. citizenship in 1994 and early 1995 (4)
• 10: US tax rules sour life for Americans abroad: Expats (27)
• 09: “What are you hiding? Just file it!” A Personal Account of a Norwegian Tax Seminar hosted by the U.S. Embassy. (46)
• 09: CNN: Path to citizenship should be a long hike (20)
• 09: FBI statistics say three thousand renounced U.S. citizenship in September and October 2012 (23)
• 08: Little incentive for China to implement Fatca (12)
• 08: You’ve been targeted for a United States drone assassination! (Shared by Wendy McElroy) (14)
• 08: Strange new look? Actually we are doing maintenance (51)
• 07: The heart of the debate: “What is a citizen”? (6)
• 07: Jack Townsend: “Article for Canadians with Unreported Canadian Retirement Plans and Accounts” (2)
• 07: Congressional Progressive Caucus also taking aim at Foreign Earned Income Exclusion again (31)
• 07: Switzerland Did Not Respect International Judicial Assistance Rules with the USA (1)
• 06: Interruption of service (10)
• 05: Yet another attempt to kill the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion in the name of “territorial taxation” (29)
• 04: Jamaican FATCA costs math quiz (23)
• 04: The Task in Canada (2)
• 04: Should Your Decision to Renounce Your Citizenship Boil Down to a Coin Toss? A Freakonomics Experiment. (18)
• 02: FATCA Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) Exposed as Bad Deal for ‘Partner’ Countries: by James Jatras (63)
• 02: Internal Revenue Code severely punishes countries which impose extraterritorial taxation (6)
• 02: Geneva Lunch: To renounce, go underground or move back to the US… (0)
• 01: Iceland catches and expulses FBI spys (11)
• 01: Parliamentary Finance Committee discusses Tax Havens next Tuesday (21)
• 01: Jack Townsend: Warnings on Continued Government Patience for Offshore Account Ostriches (1/31/13) (31)
• 01: George Mason University seminar on FATCA with Jim Jatras and Jesse Eggert (7)

January 2013

• 31: Mister Taxman: Why Some Americans Working Abroad are Ditching Their Citizenships (29)
• 30: IRS admits FATCA reciprocity is a joke (23)
• 30: Thirty days after the end of Q4 2012, and still no list of ex-Americans in the Federal Register (23)
• 29: Hong Kong retirement funds to be exempt from Fatca (4)
• 29: Packing up, going home: one US citizen in Switzerland vents his anger (149)
• 29: MR. FATBARDT=FATCA / FBAR / Double Taxation: Shall We Create an Anti-Mascot? (3)
• 29: 30-year IRS Vet: Living With FATCA Uncertainty: What Should A Foreign Financial Institution Do Until A Bilateral Agreement Is Signed? (99)
• 28: The perils of overseas tax disclosure: An immigrant’s story (64)
• 28: Green Party of Canada Opposes FATCA (43)
• 28: It is illegal for Americans to unlock their own smartphones (maybe) (21)
• 25: Andrew Allentuck’s “Financial Fix” for Canadian Resident US Citizen and Spouse (20)
• 25: “Section 6050W” is a new law and possible tax collection for Americans overseas (11)
• 25: Financial Task Force: Four Questions for Jack Lew, Obama’s Pick for Treasury Secretary (7)
• 25: Tina Turner ‘to become Swiss, give up US passport’ (121)
• 24: Avoid the scrutiny of FATCA/FBAR/Form 8938 by putting your gold in an offshore safety deposit box (29)
• 23: Theatre of the Absurd… (1)
• 23: A Cold War emigrant from Romania reflects on exit taxes (17)
• 22: 1979 Flashback: Americans Abroad Angry (66)
• 22: The Democrats Abroad Paradox (65)
• 22: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting – Davos, Switzerland 22-27 Jan 2013 (12)
• 21: We are the Federal Government: We can do what we want when we want and there’s nothing you can do about it (19)
• 21: FATCA may end the taxation of US Persons Abroad (13)
• 21: UK FFI’s face compensation claims under FATCA (9)
• 21: Inaugural Address quote of the day (3)
• 21: Royal Bank of Canada: FATCA webpage (30)
• 20: Our strongest card… The Canadian Civil Liberties Association. (44)
• 20: IRS should NOT be able to license tax preparers (26)
• 20: U.S. citizenship and a possible marriage penalty (54)
• 19: Jim Jatras Radio Interview on NYC Radio Station tonight (21)
• 19: Pepperdine #ObamaTaxAdvice Tweets and Conference (16)
• 18: Tax Law Conference discusses FATCA (35)
• 17: Treasury and IRS Issue Final Regulations to Combat Offshore Tax Evasion (92)
• 17: American FATCA punishes law-abiding Canadians @ErichTheGreen (6)
• 17: Who Says You Can Kill Americans, Mr. President? (1)
• 17: “There really is a perfect storm gathering for Americans living outside the U.S.” @yahoonews (12)
• 16: American Banker article claims that FATCA is in trouble (12)
• 16: After hearing from @Demsabroad, Here is @BarackObama (4)
• 15: @Demsabroad is out with a memo on FATCA (48)
• 15: Barrie McKenna carries water for IRS AGAIN!!! (6)
• 15: Phishing Alert. Trolling the Internet with FBAR Warnings for the Unsuspecting Americans Abroad (12)
• 15: Canadian Government Should Not Be Complicit in Making Life Miserable for Any of it’s Law-Abiding Dual-Citizen Residentss (27)
• 15: Final FATCA rules to be issued within days, according to Bloomberg BNA (13)
• 14: A tale of two taxpayers, evasion vs. avoidance? (6)
• 14: Alaska EA says IRS stealing from taxpayers (19)
• 14: Golombek: Quit Kissing up to Obama (1)
• 14: Havoc Wreaked By FATCA Spreads – Anyone in the Homeland U.S. Media Paying Attention? (13)
• 14: Who Decides Who is a U.S. Citizen? (16)
• 13: Diane Francis Defends US Citizenship Taxation (26)
• 12: Jamie Golombek of the Financial Post continues to carry Obama’s water (51)
• 11: Article on FATCA in Les Echos (28)
• 11: Cook v. Tait 7: Equality: Law prohibits both rich and poor from sleeping on park bench (7)
• 11: Cook v. Tait 6: Taxation of Green Card holders who reside outside the U.S. (3)
• 11: Cook v. Tait 5: Citizenship-based taxation was NEVER justified – League of Nations reports (0)
• 10: Cook v. Tait 4: Taxation of #americansabroad based on US culture 150 years ago! Time warp or what! (13)
• 10: American colonists on Mars will remain subject to U.S. tax (6)
• 10: Cook v. Tait 3: Legal scholar agrees reasoning in Cook v. Tait weak, but offers new justification for citizenship-based taxation (16)
• 10: Birthism: Who is a “non-status” Indian (0)
• 09: Nina Olson releases the 2012 National Tax Advocate Report to Congress. (50)
• 08: Interesting comment on Victoria’s Franco American Flophouse (15)
• 08: Havens Are Turning Hellish For Tax Avoiders, says NPR… (15)
• 07: The Affaire Depardieu (34)
• 07: Globe article suggests Canada ready to surrender to FATCA (34)
• 07: Racist anti-citizenship bill? Or common sense? (20)
• 07: Press Release: FATCA, Stanley Fischer – complaint asks release of $250,000 seized of “US Person” by Israeli Bank HaPoalim (43)
• 07: Breaking News on the DOJ and Swiss Banks- Wegelin (13)
• 06: White House Petition to Replace Citizenship taxation with a Residency Based System (83)
• 06: Diane Francis’s “Expensive Perch” (2)
• 06: Are FATCA proponents the natural allies of beleaguered United States citizens abroad? (10)
• 05: FATCA good or bad, you decide by Nigel Green (9)
• 05: Cook v. Tait 2: The presumption of GOVERNMENT benefit (4)
• 05: Gérard Depardieu desertion to Belgium… Nay Russia? Article on CNN with some comments about US tax issues. (2)
• 04: FATCA Ends 2012 with a Whimper, Stumbles into 2013 (9)
• 04: Cook v. Tait 1: Does Cook v. Tait really mean that citizenship-based taxation is constitutional in all cases? (31)
• 03: Ways and Means Committee Highlighting International Aspects of Tax Reform (29)
• 03: FATCA Report Site (7)
• 03: Barbados Nation News links that country’s FATCA compliance plans to Canada (0)
• 01: Canada, Russia and Adoptions (13)

December 2012

• 31: The need for moderation (51)
• 31: FATCA Fact Finding Forum – Part 5 of 9 – Allison Christians – FATCA and International Tax Law (32)
• 31: Really Bad Article in Salt Lake City News (11)
• 31: News from Europe: Ueli Maurer to Share his Presidency on Facebook (2)
• 31: News From Europe: French Constitutional Council Rejects 75% Tax on Rich (3)
• 30: New Article by Barrie McKenna on FATCA (28)
• 29: FATCA Fact Finding Forum – Part 7 of 9 – James Jatras – How FATCA Can Be Defeated (3)
• 28: FATCA Fact Finding Forum – Part 3 of 9 – FATCA Privacy Rights Issues – Abby Deshman (13)
• 28: FATCA Fact Finding Forum – Part 2 of 9 – Introduction to the Forum – John Richardson (0)
• 28: Russia’s US citizen ban on adoptions getting press (6)
• 28: #Americansabroad need to think carefully about the message (61)
• 27: FATCA Fact Finding Forum – Part 8 of 9 – The Human Consequences of FATCA – Peter W. Dunn (54)
• 27: Human rights trump money: Why We must say no to FATCA (13)
• 27: FATCA Fact Finding Forum – Part 4 of 9 – Presentation of FATCA Principles Video – John Richardson (9)
• 27: FATCA Fact Finding Forum – Part 1 of 9 – Opening Remarks – Sinclair Stevens (4)
• 26: #FATCA – Freedom is only one generation away from extinction (1)
• 24: U.S. Passport as Instrument of Control (23)
• 24: FATCA Fact Finding Forum video link (108)
• 22: Merry Christmas Brockers (29)
• 21: FATCA and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (6)
• 20: An important message from Jim Jatras – Spread the word! (61)
• 19: Democrats Abroad are like The Stepford Wives (66)
• 19: Only 11 Reasons Why FATCA Should be Repealed? (9)
• 19: The Sun Life Betrayal Part 3 – Converting the non-willful into willful (4)
• 18: Maclean’s Magazine: Belgium rejects France’s push to tax French citizens living in Belgium (17)
• 18: Over a Year to Expatriate! What!!! (25)
• 18: The Sun Life Betrayal Part 2 – The possible consequences of pension plans being PFICs (16)
• 17: Sun Life prepares to turn clients over to IRS for processing – bitter end to a company with a proud history (16)
• 17: 20 Ways to Catch a United States Person Living Abroad (6)
• 17: Czech Republic IGA in works (2)
• 16: FATCA Fact Finding Forum Report – Part III (58)
• 15: FATCA Fact Finding Forum Report – Part II (6)
• 15: FATCA Fact-Finding Forum Report – Part 1 (7)
• 14: TOMORROW, SATURDAY DEC. 15! FATCA Fact Finding Forum – Should Canada be governed by Canadians or by the US? (4)
• 14: UDC Parliamentary Deputy: “Switzerland has been too naive up to now”. (13)
• 14: Finance Committee publishes budget recommendations (1)
• 13: Why people renounce US citizenship: A most Noble perspective (26)
• 13: Virginia tells lies to trick emigrants into thinking they owe Virginia state tax (17)
• 13: Why Don’t they Care? (21)
• 12: Happy Birthday Isaac Brock Society! (18)
• 12: Future of #Americans abroad? Prognostications from Mr. Mopsick (34)
• 11: Author seeks input on FBAR + employment experiences (12)
• 10: Liberty is the true casualty of war – James Madison (3)
• 09: France Taxes America: The Robin Hood Tax (43)
• 09: Possible Group Project – Use Openparliament.ca – Prepare Report for Submission at FATCA Conference (4)
• 08: Virginia Tax Review article attacks U.S. fiscal imperialism (28)
• 08: Two Suggestions For The Government of Canada: Toward a #FATCA IGA (10)
• 07: Ireland signs on to FATCA (10)
• 07: FATCA: Facilitating Attacks by Terrorists on Citizens Abroad (44)
• 06: Some Christmas Cheer – Deck the Halls with Macro Follies. (5)
• 06: FEIE expansion proponent Jim DeMint (R-SC) stepping down from Senate seat (8)
• 05: A Fact Finding Forum on US Tax Grab in Canada: Official Press Release (96)
• 04: CCLA Registers Concerns on FATCA (43)
• 04: IGA About to be Signed with Switzerland. Parliament and Swiss Sovereign People’s Approval Still Needed (49)
• 04: FACT FINDING FORUM ON FACTA (9)
• 03: Article by Conrad de Aenlle in NY Times (1)
• 03: ACA Article About Threats to Overseas Voting in Arizona, Arizona v. Gonzalez goes to Supreme Court. (0)
• 03: Accountants to Taiwan: “All the cool kids are snorting coke and jumping off bridges, why aren’t you?” (19)
• 02: Truth in Advertising (30)

November 2012

• 30: Is Ms. Rice Compliant (21)
• 30: FATCA: Obama’s New Year surprise against American expats (29)
• 30: #FATCA is no longer about the US, It’s about other countries (5)
• 29: Travelling to the US while renunciation is in progress (30)
• 28: India and FATCA (3)
• 28: China central bank official slams FATCA (6)
• 28: Canadian banks wary of U.S. tax disclosure law (8)
• 28: Miscellany: Fact Finding Forum in Toronto and American Citizens Abroad on Goldstein on Gelt (65)
• 28: Another Victim of FATCA, retired Swiss/American woman living in (ex-Soviet) Georgia (4)
• 28: Chinese central bank legal expert speaks out against FATCA (1)
• 28: Are US renunciation figures being gamed? (30)
• 28: FATCA: To trap a US person – only way to escape is OVDP (10)
• 26: Mexico, US Sign FATCA Agreement (47)
• 25: How the term “US person” will give the US “de FATCA” control over other nations (11)
• 23: Effective Communication and Effective Leadership = Effective Change: Thanks, Sylvia D. Johnson (71)
• 23: UBS asks “US persons” in Switzerland to Renounce Swiss Data Protection – Let the Outrage Begin! (57)
• 23: Question: Are these FATCA IGAs considered a Tax treaty or not? (31)
• 22: Ten reasons Canada MUST say NO TO FATCA! – updated (33)
• 22: Ed and Ethan (of Saskatoon) discuss FATCA (5)
• 21: Is Resistance to ‘FATCA’ Starting to Build? (51)
• 20: The US abolition of all rights of inheritence (15)
• 20: Coerced Foreign Tax Compliance Is Killing American Jobs (34)
• 20: US and Denmark sign IGA (27)
• 19: UK Explanatory Memorandam on FATCA IGA (9)
• 19: American Citizens Abroad post the NTA’s 2013 Objectives Report to Congress (22)
• 19: American Citizens Abroad welcomes small concession from Treasury (51)
• 19: US and China could play “fiscal chicken” under FATCA (2)
• 18: Column by Chris Hedges on”Liberal Class” (3)
• 18: Homelanders propose raising taxes on US Persons abroad to pay for “territorial taxation” (65)
• 17: Full Disclosure Needed: Just What is US Tax Compliance Requirement for American Workers Being Recruited for Alberta’s Oilsands? (48)
• 15: Twenty ways the IRS can locate US expatriates (20)
• 15: Ann Hollingshead doesn’t admire our “opprobrium” (14)
• 15: Russia and US to share information on bank accounts (8)
• 14: The Wolf and the Lamb revised for our times (8)
• 13: STOP an Impending Massive Handover of Canadian Sovereignty to the United States! (228)
• 13: Townsend Article about burden of proof in FBAR cases (23)
• 13: Consequences of seceding from the US (24)
• 12: When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat (20)
• 11: Not a US person? Prove it! (20)
• 10: Huff Post: American Expat Taxpayers Would Rather Ditch Citizenship Than Face New IRS Rules (47)
• 09: We have to remind people of how FATCA will violate Canadian law!! (0)
• 08: China is NOT on the US Treasury list of 47 countries negotiating over FATCA (30)
• 08: Top Priority: Canada seeks input into FATCA negotiations with US (298)
• 08: Letter from Flaherty (30)
• 08: Anthony Parent: Why is the IRS sending collection notices to people who have paid their taxes in full? (21)
• 08: US rules “won’t work” (5)
• 07: Recommended post-election strategy for United States Expats: RUN! (27)
• 07: HOUSE Election Results vs. Roster of Americans Abroad Caucus Members (9)
• 07: No, journalists, Dick Harvey is not a neutral source (10)
• 06: FATCA: The U.S. Flexes Its Waning Economic Muscle Abroad (9)
• 06: Election Day: Get revenge, Vote (54)
• 06: Update on George Mason University Event with James Jatras and Jesse Eggert et all (9)
• 05: Daily Kos welcome to the IBS Hall of Shame (3)
• 05: Switzerland, threatened by isolation, lifting veil on secret bank accounts (6)
• 04: What are your rights as a US citizen? (37)
• 04: Voting from Abroad (9)
• 02: US Ambassador to Canada – David Jacobson – “We are not irresponsible” – Updated (103)
• 02: Crass Infomercial? (1)
• 01: New article on FATCA and Israel (35)
• 01: From American Citizens Abroad October Newsletter: Focus for FATCA and FBAR? (22)
• 01: 238 names in third quarter expatriation list, including Peter W. Dunn (65)

October 2012

• 31: The Latest from Yahoo News (6)
• 31: The Tax Implications of a Life Lived Abroad (46)
• 30: Geithner breaks tax laws again (27)
• 30: The Influence of Expats on the Vote (4)
• 29: NZ To Negotiate FATCA Agreement With US (7)
• 29: Miscellany: IRS to Peter Dunn, “Never mind.” (92)
• 29: TackleTaxHavens.CA and Canadians for Tax Fairness (8)
• 29: David Macaray: Columnist at the Huffington Post gets a FATCA education. (31)
• 28: Privacy Risks for Expats are Real (7)
• 28: Fatca faces delay after bilateral disagreements (16)
• 27: Moving to Canada? Better get a lawyer! (3)
• 26: Americans are Undesirable as FATCA Closes More Doors (21)
• 25: Thinking of voting? (3)
• 25: David Selig says that the IRS is interested in your gold (10)
• 24: Jim Jatras responds to Isaac Brock Society on FATCA (75)
• 24: Americans Who Leave the Country To Avoid High Taxes? Huh? (4)
• 23: Singapore bank to Uncle Sam: ‘Stick it where the sun don’t shine…’ (17)
• 23: US Rep Dave Reichert of WA State posts FATCA Press Release on his website (18)
• 23: 3rd Party Debates starting now (1)
• 23: J. Richard Harvey, James Jatras, and Jesse Eggert(US Treasury) debate FATCA (25)
• 23: Miscellany: Expats are a bunch of ungrateful whiners (10)
• 22: Obama Does Not Support Simpson/Bowles (12)
• 22: Tribune de Genève: Americans in Switzerland Tend to Support Barack Obama (27)
• 21: The Disabled in America (5)
• 21: Will the Federal Register Expatriation list be published before or after the election? (11)
• 21: IRS Never Told Taxpayers They Could Get Penalty Relief (9)
• 21: An Unusual Tax Situation for a Sovereign State With American Citizens (8)
• 20: WSJ: Wary Swiss Banks Shun Yanks (108)
• 19: Washington Rep. Reichert questions IRS regarding FATCA IGAs (8)
• 18: Moodys Tax Advisors proposes legislation to allow Canadians to deduct professional fees paid in IRS’s voluntary disclosure programs (11)
• 18: Wade Hicks on no-fly list (52)
• 17: News Alert for Canadians… Up Coming Program on “Costs of Moving to Canada” (15)
• 16: Why Are So Many Americans Simply Clueless About Global Events? (64)
• 14: Regarding post-natal alterations of birth certificates of trans people (89)
• 14: Someone Who Deserves a Big Hit (6)
• 12: Arthur Cockfield on FATCA (7)
• 12: Congratulations Sir Isaac Brock. Coin Issued In Your Honour (21)
• 11: Are expats America’s laziest voters? (74)
• 10: Financial planning WITHIN the USA for a Family Member with Special Needs (vs WITHIN CANADA) (23)
• 09: The Better President for Canada (14)
• 09: Canada tightens border in anticipation of illegal US immigration (29)
• 08: Video of Mark Mathews of Caplin & Drysdale on CNBC (5)
• 08: New article from Roy Berg on OVDI opt out vs new “minnow” procedure (17)
• 08: FATCA is Denying US Kids Pocket Change Accounts (15)
• 07: Latest Travel Reports from Finance Canada and CRA (3)
• 06: Cautionary Information, especially for readers of Isaac Brock who live in British Columbia, Canada: (29)
• 06: Long awaited article (64)
• 06: Do Lucien Bouchard’s kids file their FBAR’s and US Tax Returns? (1)
• 05: What do you think of America? Toronto National Post seeks your views (22)
• 05: Why US citizens in Canada should NOT invest in TFSAs or any other “Foreign Trust” (RRSPs excepted) (54)
• 05: Anita Greil, Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, is preparing an article on the effects of FATCA (2)
• 05: New Greenback Survey Reveals US Expat Government Dissatisfaction (20)
• 03: Getting FATCA covered on The Agenda with Steve Paikin on TVO(TV Ontario) (2)
• 02: US Citizenship: The “Negative Marketing Option” Trap (32)
• 02: Amb Jacobson: Most important thing US can do for Canada is improve economy of US (13)
• 02: Interesting Mopsick Article: 5% Penalty and foreign real estate not attached if less than $10,000 in US-source income? (13)
• 01: Mike Kaiser, “What taxes taught me about the power of the asterisk” (35)

September 2012

• 30: Korean Americans withdraw funds from South Korean banks for fear of FATCA, FBAR penalties (43)
• 29: Is one of the “Real” Housewives of Vancouver a US Person? (0)
• 29: Interesting Video from NYU Law on OVDI et all programs (12)
• 29: The Parable of the Prodigal Uncle (13)
• 28: An example of things to come? (20)
• 28: US tax policies delay $2bn Chinese loan (9)
• 28: European banks shut Americans out over U.S. FATCA tax rules (89)
• 28: SwissRespect Obtains Letter from Federal Concil Authorizing Disclosure of Bank Employee Names (1)
• 27: Last Day to make a FATCA submission to the Australian Govt (6)
• 27: Rand Paul responds on FATCA (25)
• 25: The Lives of Others – The true significance of Bradley Birkenfeld (6)
• 25: Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak to become Australian (42)
• 25: Betray? (17)
• 24: FATCA and FBAR Reporting by Individuals: Enforcement Considerations from a Canadian Perspective, by Andrew Bonham (19)
• 24: Canada Budget Submissions are UP (9)
• 24: U.S. Senate complains about Europe’s extraterritorial “taxes” (10)
• 24: US Treasury now negotiating with at least 40 countries for FATCA tax information-sharing pacts (20)
• 23: Did Doug Ford file his FBAR for his Canadian Assets when he ran the Chicago/US branch of Deco Labels (18)
• 22: Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks Traitors to Canada on FATCA (69)
• 22: Canadian Financial Services Sector Comment on FATCA Draft Forms (2)
• 22: Eritrea to Canada: Not so fast, We Have the Right to Tax our Citizens (26)
• 21: NPR: The Downside Of Tax Havens? Paperwork. (18)
• 20: Breaking News: Eritrea agrees to eliminate citizenship based taxation in Canada (26)
• 20: Obligations of US citizenship include taxes and possible military service (3)
• 20: Canada for President (6)
• 19: Most countries encourage retirement planning – but American Exceptionalism = Twilight Zone (8)
• 19: Timeline for renunciation of U.S. citizenship in South Korea (1)
• 18: Manal Corwin of US Treasury visits Brussels, Paris, and Singapore this week to discuss FATCA (1)
• 17: Nevada for Obama calls FATCA an Obama “Accomplishment” Take that DA (39)
• 17: Changes to the IRS site (20)
• 16: A Minnow Opts Out of the IRS’s OVDI, and gets the correct result. A simple warning letter. (45)
• 15: Russian banks may soon be subject to U.S. monitoring regulations (2)
• 15: Speech by Jim Flaherty last fall to US SIFMA conference in NYC (12)
• 14: Miscellany: QE infinity will destroy Form Nation (18)
• 14: Moving without Moving, Legal but Illegal (6)
• 14: UK signs Agreement with the US on FATCA (48)
• 14: Update: Senator Tom Coburn of OK trying to make Passport revocation law stricter (16)
• 13: BC Business Magazine looks at FATCA, credit unions (34)
• 13: McGill Tax Policy Colloquium (1)
• 13: Renunciation and Relinquishment: What are the differences? Is there a difference? (20)
• 12: Shame Shame Shame on US Senator Bill Nelson of Florida (93)
• 12: Financial advice — just how do US Persons Abroad now effectively plan and save for their retirement? (22)
• 12: EUROzone Crisis (8)
• 11: A Compliance Officer’s Biggest Headache – Privacy Regulation (9)
• 11: Jailed UBS Banker Birkenfeld awarded $104 million as IRS whistleblower (46)
• 11: Paris-area American journalist looking for renunciants and potential renunciants (6)
• 10: How I Really Feel About Citizenship-Based Taxation (98)
• 08: IRS “Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures” and Hong Kong: Shatin Families Calumniated & Plundered (20)
• 07: The Americans in Switzerland Working Group – Report on abuses sent to Members of Congress, Obama Administration (9)
• 07: Moodys LLP, Part 2: Do You Qualify for IRS’s New Streamlined Procedure to Bring US Tax Returns Current? (136)
• 07: Biden opposes territorial taxation in convention speech – should make this an election issue! (16)
• 07: The US Law that is Destroying the World Economy – FATCA (2)
• 07: Queens’ law professor discusses matters of interest (11)
• 07: Australia and FATCA (15)
• 06: What am I? Born in the US but the US consulate told me in 1970s that I am not an American (121)
• 05: Samsung Life Insurance warning high net-worth clients about FATCA, FBAR (5)
• 04: Spotted at DNC Convention: Canadian MP Paul Dewar (14)
• 04: RTS TTC Program on the Turmoil in the Swiss Banking Industry & Infrarouge debate on Wednesday (0)
• 04: Form 3520, “foreign trusts”, and the Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures (60)
• 03: No Americans Abroad, Mormons or Muslims at the Obama Store (15)
• 03: Breaking FATCA news from Hong Kong: banks and tax consultancy firms are still shills (4)
• 03: US Air Force Deserter revealed after 28 Years (7)
• 02: Diminishing Returns (23)
• 01: Last Dance: New Filing Compliance Procedures for Non-Resident U.S. Taxpayers – Effective September 1, 2012 – A Preliminary Analysis (61)
• 01: Criminal Complaint in Switzerland for Theft and Fencing Stolen Property (3)
• 01: Andy Sundberg Passes Away (17)

August 2012

• 31: The IRS just broke almost all old links to their website (14)
• 31: From Moodys LLP: Breaking news!! IRS releases details of new procedures for non-compliant taxpayers living abroad (34)
• 31: Taiwan seeks help from other Pacific Rim governments on FATCA? (7)
• 31: Brandon Raub released: His lawyer says 20,000+ per year disappear in Virginia alone, mainly veterans! (12)
• 31: Swiss Federal Council adopts mandate for negotiations with United States on FATCA implementation (3)
• 31: Zürcher Kantonalbank is now refusing to refinance the mortgages of Swiss citizens who live in the US (3)
• 31: Definition of U.S. person: Any person or entity that will have an effect on American commerce (9)
• 30: Passport confiscation? (1)
• 30: Washing the Emperors’ Clothes: The 13th Amendment and the IRS (7)
• 30: FATCA update (14)
• 30: Capital Controls are now here: Border checks to leave the United States (28)
• 29: It’s all Congress’ fault? (34)
• 29: Is the Canadian government more productive than the US’s? (6)
• 29: Some more possible activism to bring this issue to the attention of Washington (7)
• 29: Need Power of Attorney to Purchase US Property? (17)
• 28: IRC code 6677 title 26 (8)
• 28: Introducing PATCA, the culinary equivalent of FATCA (8)
• 28: Australian Government wants YOU to tell them what to do about FATCA (12)
• 28: British want their own version of FATCA (6)
• 28: Interviews on Swiss TV: Bank employees upset about their names being disclosed to the US. (4)
• 28: 53% of Homelanders want to raise taxes to save Social Security. What do U.S. Persons abroad say? (73)
• 27: HUD complaint on housing discrimination vanished into thin air and VA Home Loans won’t do jack (37)
• 27: Miscellany: three survivors, four minnows, a whale, and a whale of a sovereign debt crisis (3)
• 27: A commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the light of the Ex Patriot Act and other abuses of the United States upon its diaspora (48)
• 25: Welcome to the United States: When cross-border shopping in the USA, make sure you know which stores you will be visiting (20)
• 25: Naomi Wolf talks about US Government scare tactics. (27)
• 25: Some U.S. Persons abroad are more equal than others (1)
• 24: Romney campaign: Expats can now select a country to go with the US State, US phone number and US zip code (41)
• 23: Criminal Tango: Filing FBAR from Abroad (1)
• 23: Triple Referendum Launched in Switzerland Against Tax Treaties With Three European Countries (2)
• 22: Roy Berg: Did the IRS really concede that FBAR penalities are not collectible under the United States/Canada tax convention? (38)
• 22: Front Row with Barack and Michele, Airfare and Hotel included, Americans abroad excluded (29)
• 21: Fair tax, unfair tax: or When is it paying my fair share? (47)
• 21: Asia: “If I have the choice, I just don’t want to deal with a US person’” (1)
• 20: Federal Public Minister of Switzerland denies that Swiss banks did anything wrong by giving employees names to the USA authorities (6)
• 20: How normal countries describe the question of dual nationality (29)
• 20: Blaming minorities leads to economic growth? (22)
• 19: Detention of former marine Brandon Raub for “terrorist” comments on Facebook page (19)
• 19: California genocide and the Indian Tax Revolt of 1851 (1)
• 19: Kuwait to add to U.S. State Department renunciation backlog? (22)
• 18: Here we go again: examples of others making comparisons (13)
• 18: The Whiskey Rebellion: or How does the United States enforce its tax laws? (9)
• 17: Taiwan banks order government to sell dignity, sovereignty to Washington (17)
• 17: Grover Norquist and Dan Mitchell argue for territorial taxation – “IRS Discount” associated with U.S. entities or persons (2)
• 16: Why Canada Does Not Really Exist (5)
• 16: Jon Corzine will not face charges (2)
• 16: Come Play At Maple Sandbox (41)
• 15: Drones on the Canadian border (39)
• 14: Interesting article about the Constitutionality of the Exit Tax (6)
• 14: United States Federal Agencies stockpiling ammunition (18)
• 14: Chinese companies pulling out of U.S. stock markets amid accusations, complaints (5)
• 14: Both our forefathers were slaves: When is a comparison correct and when isn’t it? (100)
• 13: A Stupid — At Least Unfair — IRS OVDI/OVDP Trick; Denying Overpayment Credit for Barred Years (6)
• 13: Former Canadian MP and head of the OECD says Daniel J. Mitchell is really bad guy (6)
• 12: Interesting CDN Govt Travel Expense Reports for visits to IRS and OECD (4)
• 12: Yet another list of employees turned over by HSBC, lawsuit filed against Swiss Federal Council (8)
• 12: Tim Walberg’s inflation-indexing tax reform plan offers very limited relief to U.S. Persons abroad (33)
• 12: Addition of Ryan to Republican ticket should be good for U.S. citizens abroad (37)
• 11: Former oil exec hit with multiple FBAR fines (6)
• 10: Why I Am a Marxist (6)
• 10: My experience with trying to have a dialog with the Romney campaign on US citizen abroad issues (19)
• 10: RTS Radio Interview (in French) with Swiss Respect: “Who still defends Swiss banks?”” (9)
• 10: Analysis of 2010 Foreign Earned Income Exclusion and Foreign Housing Deduction usage (13)
• 09: “Blind spots” are more than a topic for a driving lesson (42)
• 09: When a government becomes criminal (10)
• 09: Global Sheriff – Should American Law Rule the World? (BBC News) (11)
• 08: Paternalism and how it works (4)
• 08: NPR’s, “All Things Considered”, Finally Does a Story on Offshore Tax Evasion Crack Down (34)
• 08: GOP Passes US Tax Reform Bill For 2013 – H.R. 6169 (26)
• 08: 741 tax returns filed from single Florida address, IRS sent back over $1 million in refunds (11)
• 08: President Obama closes DIALOGUE with U.S. citizens abroad – comes full circle (38)
• 08: Lawyer warns Swiss bankers not to leave Switzerland (updated with translation) (17)
• 07: Dotty, Potty, Naughty Expat Freedom Poetry (3)
• 07: Adjustments in Life: Living as an over-stressed American in peaceful Northern Thailand (18)
• 06: Here It Comes – IRS communicates with DHS (39)
• 06: Children of Swiss asset manager detained for six hours for questioning by US officials (Updated with partial translation) (68)
• 06: Forbes’ Robert W. Wood: Thumbnail Tax Guidance For U.S. Taxpayers Abroad (1)
• 06: KPMG Article on June 21 Swiss IGA Announcement (5)
• 05: Power and Freedom (38)
• 05: Day One: Filing Previous Year Tax Returns (22)
• 05: Voice of Art – The Tax Dodgers (6)
• 04: Moderates, Extremists or those in between: A great line from the James Bond movie Thunderball and an old song (33)
• 04: US citizens: Pay attention to this (10)
• 04: The FATCA star: a design suggestion (111)
• 04: Former U.S. Person to take charge of FATCA response in the Bahamas? (2)
• 03: Interesting video about pleading in front of the Supreme Court of Canada (0)
• 03: Tax Justice II: No FBAR Penalties For Otherwise Compliant Recent Immigrants To The United States (31)
• 03: Me, I’m a Moderate (62)
• 03: Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting (4)
• 02: New comments from CBA President Terry Campbell on FATCA (39)
• 02: Israel to establish governmental committee on FATCA compliance (44)
• 02: Reps. Maloney, Honda, Rangel introduce bill to create bipartisan commission on how U.S. government serves Americans living overseas (115)
• 02: US Home: Primary, Second or Investment Property? (7)
• 02: US Olympic Athletes at competitive disadvantage because of citizenship based taxation (25)
• 01: “Tea Party” Senate Candidate from Texas with Calgary Connection (18)
• 01: Most Foreign Banks Don’t Want U.S. Clients; How To Find One That Does (0)
• 01: Vern Krishna – “Why we hate the tax collector” (2)
• 01: Serving Overseas Voters – Doing It Right (5)

July 2012

• 31: Senators scrutinize FATCA (29)
• 31: Isaac Brock Society reaches a milestone – This is the 1,000th post! (10)
• 31: Why IRS conduct may contribute to establishing “Reasonable Cause” for failure to file Mr. FBAR (3)
• 31: Presidential Commission Sought on U.S. Expatriates (14)
• 31: 2,158 Koreans gave up U.S. green cards or citizenship in 2011, says South Korean government report (59)
• 30: More FATCA Fallout: Miami’s international banking clients move money to protect financial privacy (46)
• 30: US Bank Denying Americans Services for being “US Persons” (20)
• 30: Korean Americans who gave up U.S. citizenship and joined the South Korean military (1)
• 30: Evidence that the FEIE doesn’t protect middle class USPs in Switzerland (38)
• 29: Moby Guest Post: Patriot Act s361b – The Missing Congressional Reports on IRS FBAR Compliance Efforts (26)
• 29: When one passport isn’t enough — CNN article about dual nationality (11)
• 28: John Baird vs Chuck Schumer (15)
• 28: Denying US Persons banking services: “It’s All About Fairness” (11)
• 28: Denial of CLN to would-be renunciant upheld by DC District Court (1)
• 28: Retirement Plans Get Relief from Foreign Asset Reporting Law (16)
• 27: Canada puts pressure on Eritrea – National Post – More from Stewart Bell (23)
• 27: Germany may ditch Fatca if reciprocity agreement not honoured, experts warn (37)
• 27: US Treasury Issues Model Intergovernmental FATCA Agreement (3)
• 27: 189 names in Federal Register name-and-shame list for second quarter of 2012 (33)
• 26: Financial Times: US and Europe in accord on tax evasion (8)
• 26: Hunting U.S. citizens abroad – How the banks help the IRS – FATCA Training Videos (26)
• 26: Romney Raising Funds from Expats – Tell him about FATCA Fallout (9)
• 26: FATCA IGA Released (18)
• 25: Coverage of UN Report on Toronto Eritreans forced to Pay Tax (17)
• 25: IRS estimate for number of Form 8854 filers: eleven to twelve thousand per year (15)
• 25: Evaluating U.S. Senate Races from Abroad (39)
• 25: Reality Catching Up With Fiction? (1)
• 24: Monty Pelerin: It’s the numbers, stupid (32)
• 24: New Video about FATCA in Canada (33)
• 24: My Big Fat Belizean, Singaporean Bank Account (17)
• 23: The Isaac Brock Society is being censured from the Expat Forum (15)
• 23: Is ‘never again’ now? (14)
• 23: Shadow Raider is rewriting the United State Internal Revenue Code (243)
• 23: Mark Shields: Welcome to the IBS Wall of Shame (9)
• 23: Housing discrimination based on national origin is illegal by federal law (25)
• 23: Williams case reversed – “willfulness” no longer means “willful” – Judges legalize IRS tyranny (43)
• 23: FBAR Penalties Just Got Even Worse (22)
• 23: The Dark Side of Anti-”Swiss Bank Account” Politics, by Matt Welch (3)
• 22: Calling Jason Kenney: Eritrean Consulate up to no good AGAIN!! (4)
• 22: Globe and Mail article for those who wish to comment (2)
• 22: Series of Lawrence Solomon National Post articles on support for Obama – They are interesting (2)
• 22: Raiffeisen announces (again) that it is getting rid of American clients. (57)
• 22: Fidelity Investments refuses to provide services to U.S. Persons abroad? (7)
• 22: U.S. Tax Havens (3)
• 21: Becoming Canadian – Some Statistics (20)
• 21: Must see – Dan Mitchell explains why U.S. needs to move to territorial taxation for companies (13)
• 20: More correspondence from the office of John Weston MP. “IRS is a budget issue” for the government of Canada. Get your voice heard before the deadline for 2013′s budget submissions. (36)
• 20: What do you need for travel? (5)
• 20: The evolution of Barack Obama: First you take the high road, then you take the low road, then you take the ditch! (2)
• 20: Australian Financial Services Council lobbies Washington for FATCA exemption (15)
• 20: The Swiss TaxMan tougher than the IRS! (9)
• 19: Scammers phishing using FBAR (9)
• 19: The IRS spent $20 billion for crap like this? (24)
• 19: An old one but still disturbing. (49)
• 19: As an American abroad, What assurances do I want from the U.S. Candidate for President? (19)
• 18: MUST READ: Old paper on conflict between Filipino citizenship based taxation and the Canadian Charter (44)
• 18: George Clooney to raise money for Obama from rich American masochists in Switzerland (21)
• 18: US Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin welcome to the IBS Wall of Shame (11)
• 18: Renouncing American Patriots (24)
• 18: ING France’s message to USA: “FATCA? Thanks but no thanks.” (16)
• 18: Americans hit by FATCA; United Statesians, Usonians, Amreicans unaffected (15)
• 17: Daily Reckoning and Expat Experiences: (4)
• 17: ACA Caucus Member Janice Schakowsky: Total Sellout to American Citizen’s Abroad (5)
• 17: Transcript of US Congress debate on “Son of FATCA” legislation (7)
• 17: Jet Li: Hero of China (6)
• 16: Brad Wall bashes Obama. Will he refuse to change Saskatchewan Privacy and Securities Law to Comply with FATCA? (2)
• 16: William McGurn at WSJ, Joins Isaac Brock Hall of Fame.. (28)
• 16: Canadian Bankers Association’s Maura Drew-Lytle responds to the Isaac Brock Society (117)
• 16: Federal Government creates a stronger bank consumer complaints system (1)
• 16: NDAA Blocked by Federal Court (10)
• 16: Poll on Accounts Closed due to FATCA (10)
• 16: Same-country exception for FATCA? (41)
• 16: Copyright claim pit U.S. against British student – U.S. asserts jurisdiction based on .net domain name (21)
• 16: John Duncan Jr. (R-TN) libels renunciants as “tax evaders” (26)
• 16: Renunciation [poem] (7)
• 15: Form 8938 – Where it came from, how it came about, what it means for U.S. citizens abroad (32)
• 14: FATCA Form 8938: Demystifying the Complex Rules and Severe Consequences for Noncompliance, by Hale Sheppard (22)
• 14: WNYC Following Up: Are Swiss Bank Accounts All That Bad? (20)
• 13: William McGurn from WSJ looking for Testimonies on FATCA Impact (13)
• 13: TD Bank Iranian Canadian Account closure discussed on CBC Power and Politics (4)
• 13: IRS Technical Guidance: (3)
• 13: I Don’t Think That They Know Yet? (6)
• 13: Tax Justice For Americans Abroad, by Steven J. Mopsick (36)
• 13: Disappointing Information on Canadian Bankers Association Site (40)
• 13: Canadian Citizens with Dutch tax “problems” be forewarned the CRA WILL collect on YOU (5)
• 13: Incredible unfairness in the US tax code – IRC: Confusing capital gains with income edition – The price of unfairness and the cost to society as a whole (2)
• 13: Globe and Mail article – Canadians in U.S. on Bush tax cuts with interesting comment from U.S. citizen in Canada (6)
• 13: New article about taxation of U.S. Persons abroad by Prerna Rao of Quinnipiac Law School (0)
• 12: Is this the worst article ever written about citizenship renunciation? (13)
• 12: FATCA Summit at NYU Videos (16)
• 12: Why Americans Abroad Should Vote (46)
• 11: Number of Expatriations per year from 1962 to 2011 (17)
• 11: Humor Interlude: WILLIAM SHATNER SINGS O CANADA (4)
• 11: U.S. officers have powers to make arrests in Canada (14)
• 11: IRS Ruling on Relinquishment and Retroactivity from 1992. This is BIG (39)
• 10: NBC Nightly News interviews Phil Hodgen, Chuck Schumer about Denise Rich (41)
• 10: Dr. Nancy Snyderman and Donny Deutsch welcome to the IBS Wall of Shame (8)
• 10: Us and Them (25)
• 10: Are you the same person you were one year ago? How has the last year affected your life? (37)
• 10: Mark Steyn (26)
• 09: Here’s more: Democratic Gov. O’Malley (Md): Romney ‘bet against America’ with offshore holdings (15)
• 09: Gibbs, Democrats hit Romney over offshore bank accounts (18)
• 09: Breaking news: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. And Reuters just noticed Denise Rich’s 2011 renunciation. (56)
• 09: While Obama uses drones to kill people in South Asia as example of U.S. power, Romney builds companies to feed people in South Asia as power of U.S. example (34)
• 08: 8854 Encore! (6)
• 08: Financial Post “An Unnecessary Overreaching of U.S. Tax Law into Canada” (3)
• 07: The best thing Joe Green and Democrats Abroad could do is encourage all Democrats to vote for Romney (81)
• 06: TD Bank and Iranian-Canadian Account Closures (15)
• 04: What do you all think? Good news? (98)
• 04: Break through: FATCA story finally hits the NPR radio waves in America! (57)
• 02: Myth: EVERYONE is Eligible to Free File! (30)
• 02: CBC radio speaks with Russ Hunt and Marie Cashion (11)
• 02: Welcome to Pennsylvania: the horrific abuse of police power in the case of Robert Leone (59)
• 01: Russ Hunt and Marie Cashion on CBC New Brunswick 7:15 tomorrow (July 2) (4)
• 01: Steven J. Mopsick comments on IRS new filling procedure for Americans abroad: Too little but not too late (84)
• 01: More insight from the National Post – Jamie Golombek and Vancouver Sun – Don Cayo (84)

June 2012

• 30: The “Property of the USA” tattoo (20)
• 30: U.S. citizens abroad with Subpart F income, take note (7)
• 30: Interesting summary of new taxes and new forms in Obamacare (1)
• 30: Meet Accidental American Boris Johnson, Mayor of London (75)
• 28: The FBAR Snail Mail Terrorist Treat (22)
• 28: Yet another reason to renounce U.S. citizenship: Obamacare tax on unearned income – it’s a tax on tax (13)
• 28: Obamacare Confirmed by Supreme Court (with some limitations) (25)
• 28: IRS releases new FAQs for OVDI and rules for some non-filers – The perspective of the Accounting Industry (45)
• 28: A Saudi lawyer advises Obama to end citizenship-based taxation (47)
• 28: Taxpayers abroad can now use SNAP (a.k.a. food stamps) screening tool (11)
• 28: Expat life in America (1)
• 28: Taxpayer Advocate releases Fiscal Year Objectives 2013 (14)
• 27: Flaherty happy with IRS: Barrie Mckenna (29)
• 27: Something new (maybe) from the IRS for taxpayers residing outside the U.S. and who have NOT been filing tax returns and FBARs (26)
• 27: The disease of citizenship-based taxation spreads (39)
• 26: A response from John Weston MP on FATCA (20)
• 26: IRS Announces Efforts to Help U. S. Citizens Overseas Including Dual Citizens and Those with Foreign Retirement Plans (87)
• 26: FATCA ‘failure’ will cost the US (18)
• 25: A Poke at American Exceptionalism (16)
• 25: I think some of you will get a bang out of this (8)
• 25: ACA’s Jackie Bugnion and J. Richard Harvey debate FATCA for two nights this week (67)
• 24: Amy Webster a dual Swiss-US Citizen, tells her FATCA Fallout banking story. (37)
• 24: Hurry, Hurry — Become a ‘US Person’ with Investment Property in Arizona, while the Getting is Good (5)
• 24: Form Nation is stuck on stupid: IRS sends Petros a bill (48)
• 24: Bounty Hunter (8)
• 23: How Obama lost the left (and Americans Abroad) – Interesting analysis (11)
• 23: Retroactivity and Carlton (1)
• 22: Comments from Domestic US Financial industry on “DATCA” (Hint: they hate it) (22)
• 22: Posted on ACA: More journalists would like to hear our stories (45)
• 22: Son receives CLN (21)
• 22: Roger Conklin: 1099 problems vs FATCA problems…. (18)
• 22: Switzerland and Japan sell out to FATCA? (36)
• 22: In the Middle (18)
• 21: Finally It’s Here (43)
• 21: Canada Day, War of 1812, and FATCA (3)
• 21: The Best Investment in U.S. Defense is to Stop FATCA and Start respecting the sovereigny of other nations (4)
• 20: June 18, 1812 – June 18, 2012: U.S. citizenship-based taxation, and other ways to wage war at a profit! (17)
• 20: What is the real flow of immigration to the U.S. and what does it tell us? (9)
• 20: Smoke ‘Em Out! (11)
• 19: Please read this post if your actual expatriation date is before 2004 (Updated) (112)
• 19: Waking up Canadian – Are you lucky? (2)
• 18: A Swiss Brocker sneaks in to talk to Senator Guess Who: Introducing a new category (Reductio ad absurdum) (23)
• 18: June 18, 1812: US Declares War On Canada (8)
• 18: The list of atrocities keeps growing (20)
• 18: Fifth Amendment: Never speak to an investigator (this includes the IRS) (7)
• 17: June 15 has come and gone and IRS has failed to provide promised procedures – Does the IRS really want compliance? (26)
• 17: U.S. citizens abroad are disabled from retirement planning, I think – Contribute to the knowledge (7)
• 17: The US is not alone in alienating its citizens overseas (22)
• 16: Expenses and Contributions as of June 16 (our first seven months) (4)
• 16: U.S. Naricissism and it’s impact on the sovereignty of other nations – Introduction (43)
• 16: Sauve Qui Peut (13)
• 16: Foreign Buyers flocking to US Housing Market (18)
• 15: Speaking of CARP, here is an item from their most recent online newsletter. (13)
• 15: Did you hear the President today? (10)
• 14: FATCA: The IRS’s Very Big Stick (64)
• 14: “It’s not a battle financial institutions can wage” Shaun Rickerby of Rickerby Wealth Group, TD Waterhouse, makes a Canada call-to-arms regarding FATCA on June 12th. (30)
• 14: US Court denies 5th Amendment regarding FBAR filing (21)
• 14: Instructions for Form 8854 are clearly contradictory (11)
• 14: The Social Security Benefits of the Expat and the “Windfall Elimination Provision” (13)
• 13: Form 8854 (15)
• 13: Honda Civic owners are more important than US persons living abroad (2)
• 13: Yes we can!! – Change we can believe in – Organizing the community of U.S. citizens abroad – One community at a time! (78)
• 13: Canada Liechtenstein Mystery (8)
• 12: The Economist, live debate. With FATCA FBAR OVDI, Does Obama Deserve to be Re-elected? (45)
• 12: How citizenship-based taxation steals from the treasury of other countries: PFIC Edition (40)
• 12: The “Last in Time Rule” makes tax treaties with the United States essentially worthless (31)
• 12: Need help from a Brocker in BC (16)
• 12: Pain and desperation of U.S. citizen living outside the United States (16)
• 12: Foreign Financial Institutions could recover some of their costs for implementing FATCA (26)
• 12: The redirect of isaacbrocksociety.com is successful (7)
• 11: Fareed Zakaria – Immigration lessons for the U.S. from around the world – Getting them in and keeping them in! (24)
• 10: Tonight on CNN, Fareed Zacharia examines US immigration policies and highlights Canada (4)
• 10: Japan Times has a great article (66)
• 09: Not too far into the distant future-bypassing BANKS altogether! (4)
• 09: Time is running out for you to file your 2011 U.S. 1040 tax return, if you haven’t already done so. (16)
• 09: Huff Post: Expat Absentee Votes Are Going to Be Even More Important in 2012 (30)
• 09: Subscribe to the FATCA News and Information List (35)
• 09: FATCA and employment for U.S. citizens abroad (28)
• 09: Michael Lewis: The Extra Cookie… (10)
• 08: House Defeats Motion Supporting Levin’s Latest Misguided Attack on Tax Havens (15)
• 08: Tax Advisory Panel member Jane Bruno has written another strongly-worded letter to the President about IRS policy on enforcement of the FBAR and “voluntary disclosure.” (9)
• 07: Plea Bargaining, Even When You’re Innocent (7)
• 07: Phil Hodgen – “Why people expatriate” – A Comment on his post – What about those who cannot certify 5 years of tax compliance? (36)
• 07: Sweepstakes rules discriminate against expats (15)
• 07: U.S. trade representative urges repeal of law requiring U.S. to impose sanctions on itself (6)
• 07: How To Lose Your American Passport (10)
• 06: The accidental Kenyan: What would happen if the African nation copied U.S. tax policy? by Don Whiteley (13)
• 06: Phil Hodgen: Why people expatriate (24)
• 05: isaacbrocksociety.com has moved to isaacbrocksociety.ca (update) (30)
• 05: So where were the journalists at the May 15th FATCA public hearing? (78)
• 04: How do you cope with anxiety? (68)
• 04: President Obama opens dialogue with U.S. citizens abroad – Seize the day! Hope you wont’ get fooled again! – UPDATED (42)
• 03: Old Press Release from former FM (and PM) Paul Martin over US Canada tax issues (5)
• 03: IRS Soliciting Quotes for Shotguns (14)
• 03: Canada Day Letter Blitz (74)
• 03: The Isaac Brock Society is repatriating to Canada: I am beginning the process (88)
• 03: Glossary Thread — Jargon of IBS, and groups that deal with common issues (19)
• 03: Press Release Thread (2)
• 02: Passport confiscation supporter Harry Reid “cautiously optimistic” about highway bill (20)
• 01: US Citizens: Do Your Tax Duty (29)
• 01: Anyone willing to engage one of the architects of FATCA? (18)
• 01: 2011, not 1997, had the largest number of reported expatriates (7)

May 2012

• 31: Thank you from a Fellow Brocker — We’re all in this together! (47)
• 31: Words to Avoid in Posting? (32)
• 31: The conscience of a lawyer and “The FBAR Fundraiser” (9)
• 30: Roger Conklin asks, “Is Romney an accidental Mexican Citizen as reported?” (26)
• 30: Compliance counseling is like a box of chocolates – “You never know what your gonna get” – Circular 230 vs. the fiduciary duty to the client (17)
• 30: Renunciation rates in Europe: five Swedes renounced citizenship in 2010 (70)
• 29: TD Waterhouse FATCA Privacy Waiver Form (45)
• 29: Out of the fry pan: on playing musical trading accounts (UPDATED) (18)
• 29: Almost no U.S. Persons abroad properly report their foreign retirement accounts on Form 3520 (25)
• 28: Don Whitely at Vancouver Sun: The Accidental Kenyan (62)
• 28: Ron Paul condemns Ex-PATRIOT Act: “will ensnare many ordinary middle-class Americans” (42)
• 27: US Government Fundraising Event! (39)
• 27: United Nations’ human rights complaint procedure (30)
• 27: Notice to Swiss Authorities: Canada resists US extraterritorial tax policies, Switzerland must too (17)
• 27: Isaac Brock Society search engine optimisation report (6)
• 26: Canadian Billionaire Giving It All Away (1)
• 26: Why is the Quiet Disclosure (QD) so controversial between Practitioners? (173)
• 26: Chuck Schumer lashes out at Petros on Senate floor (35)
• 25: Article 8 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United States (16)
• 25: Anti-Americanism in Canada (43)
• 24: Civil Forfeiture and Boiled Frogs (40)
• 23: Canada’s Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP): Canada’s Finance Minister Flaherty responds regarding this, as well as the RESP and TFSA (24)
• 23: Misunderstanding the Ex-Patriot Act (19)
• 23: Schumer Casey bill removes all doubt about U.S. insanity – may accelerate pace of renunciations! (55)
• 23: Niall Ferguson – law more important than democracy – how we keep our politicians under control is key (2)
• 23: RCMP ‘to ease Canadians into the idea’ of U.S. agents in Canada (10)
• 23: Comparing renunciation rates around the world (11)
• 22: Objections to my arguments against the Ex Patriot Act (33)
• 22: What Schumer Can Learn From George Washington (6)
• 22: Economist with popular blog tells young people to get out (19)
• 22: Ex-PATRIOT Act full text released: you too could be a “specified expatriate” (85)
• 22: Guess when a Canadian TFSA is not really tax exempt? (11)
• 21: Steve Mopsick – On the “coming into compliance dilemma” (100)
• 21: Did Obama “keep his word” to U.S. citizens living abroad? – keepinghisword.com (29)
• 21: No Civilized Country Would Ever Banish Eduardo Saverin (88)
• 21: Of Memberships and Groups (25)
• 20: What was Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D) doing meeting with renounced US Citizen Kristina Keneally in 2007 (11)
• 20: Huffington Post: Rush Limbaugh and John Boehner / Saverin Legislation Con and Pro (15)
• 20: Laura Saunders weighs in: Should you renounce your U.S. citizenship (64)
• 20: Please help me develop my survey. (8)
• 20: An aspect of the 2012 “Class Warfare” election debate – Compares the Democrats to … (14)
• 19: National Narcissism and U.S. citizenship – Being a U.S. citizen is like having a narcissist for a parent (36)
• 19: PRESS RELEASE THREAD (89)
• 18: I don’t think Bruce Ackermann will be leaving the IBS Hall of Shame anytime soon (40)
• 18: Must read – one of the best articles I have seen on a number of issues – Form Nation Regulation (10)
• 18: Al Lewis — Welcome to the Isaac Brock Hall of Fame (39)
• 18: The bipartisan fight against American demonisation of U.S. Persons abroad (21)
• 17: Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook’s Saverin’s Tax ‘Scheme’ – ABC News (171)
• 17: Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty – A quizz – What does this mean for FATCA? (2)
• 17: Business Insider says Eduardo Saverin could be banned from the United States (47)
• 16: Info on Ontario Hunters and Anglers being stored in US subject to Patriot Act (7)
• 16: The US trade deficit: Was it caused by greedy companies or greedy government? (14)
• 16: Interesting blog post about MSNBC TV host Rachel Maddow and her very close Canadian ancestry. (10)
• 16: U.S. seeks to impose FATCA on the rest of the world – will the world really comply? (38)
• 16: Eduardo Saverin: Citizen of the World (64)
• 16: Dual Citizenship Debate at NYT (13)
• 16: TIN Validation (6)
• 15: Bruce Ackermann of Yale University needs to join the Isaac Brock Society Hall of Shame (18)
• 15: Remaining a dual citizen (2): we hold these truths (7)
• 15: From the Soldiers’ Tower at the University of Toronto (11)
• 15: The United States taxes foreigners via deficit spending (9)
• 15: Swiss Constitutional Initiative on Popular Ratification of Treaties (8)
• 14: Taxing the Rich Not the Better Way to Narrow the Income Gap? (28)
• 14: Eduardo Saverin, American Hero (16)
• 14: Feeding the Trolls at McClatchy (54)
• 14: Sooner or later, if you have money, you must pay the U.S. – You can pay the Exit Tax now or the Estate Tax later (15)
• 14: Let’s get the press involved more in our issues ! (28)
• 13: A hypothetical tax scenario: what if Eduardo Saverin had gone to Harvard as a visa student? (27)
• 13: Response to Matias Ramos: The One Percent Deports Itself (22)
• 13: Foreign banks freezing out U.S. millionaires (25)
• 12: Customer Satisfaction at all-time high, says IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman (56)
• 12: Nicolas Santa still in federal custody (4)
• 12: Question about Visa Waiver Program (ESTA) (21)
• 12: Toronto Star’s Michael Lewis, Saverin article: It’s about “Benign Actors” (15)
• 11: New WSJ article on FATCA (47)
• 11: US Immigration to make an important, money-saving announcement (42)
• 11: ABC News’ Enjoli Francis reports on the Eduardo Saverin Expatriation (8)
• 11: Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship – Brilliant Dan Mitchell article (13)
• 11: An International Tax on the Rich? (17)
• 11: Technology entrepreneurs giving up U.S. citizenship? A U.S. tech startup webforum reacts to one case (60)
• 10: Chinese Bank in America (7)
• 10: Is Horizontal Equity Socialism? (2)
• 10: Some thoughts for immigrants caught in the IRS Jihad – This is for you! (39)
• 10: James George Jatras on FATCA: marketwatch.com article (22)
• 10: Today's New York Times article re the very innocent and appropriately named "Accidental Americans" (28)
• 10: Michelle Bachmann: (58)
• 10: Going beyond blogging…. (13)
• 10: Tax justice and tax compliance (14)
• 10: American Citizenship: a Cost Benefit Analysis (83)
• 10: Last Call: Prohibition in American (2)
• 09: Spam messages linking to irsmedic.com (8)
• 09: This from ACA today, changes to voter registration cause anger and frustration (24)
• 09: Article in Toronto Star on FATCA (ACA needs to denounce Rep. Neal TODAY) (18)
• 09: Non-relationship between taxes and renunciation – interesting comments (10)
• 09: Barrie McKenna's new article on FATCA (13)
• 09: Recent media coverage: one entry for the Hall of Fame, lots for the Hall of Shame (27)
• 08: Last Date for 8854 filing is June 15, 2012 (17)
• 08: Phil Hodgen meets with IRS to solve RRSP problems – Thank you Phil! (108)
• 08: U.K.'s Association of Investment Companies suggests members not comply with FATCA (11)
• 07: Treasure Islands (9)
• 07: Taiwan banks having second thoughts about FATCA? (3)
• 07: François Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy in France (33)
• 06: State Bar of California- Tax Section on FATCA (28)
• 06: Russia will not enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the United States on the application of FATCA (28)
• 06: Nordic banks push for Fatca reciprocity (2)
• 06: A trip to the Center of the Universe….and shameless pimping on RRSPs (12)
• 06: New Zealand Government position on FATCA (45)
• 05: Are you too poor to file US income tax? Apparently my husband and I are. (20)
• 05: For those who don't think we have enough tax information sharing between Canada and the US (8)
• 05: Welcome to the United States: You now must pay your taxes to the USA (109)
• 05: Al Lewis: Welcome to the Isaac Brock Hall of *Shame*/FAME (UPDATED) (60)
• 05: ACA has just issued the April 2012 News Update. (18)
• 05: The Pale King (1)
• 04: New Zealand Bankers Association on FATCA (35)
• 04: Over half-a-million hits and counting! (25)
• 04: Go back to Canada, you hoser (17)
• 04: US taxman's long Arm Threatens Costly Kiwi Headaches (1)
• 04: Your U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network: hard at work Enforcing Crime (5)
• 03: One More Free (49)
• 03: Obama brings Romney's offshore accounts into the campaign (18)
• 03: Transcript of the one and only Congressional hearing ever held on FATCA (27)
• 03: Thank you and congratulations to Mr. Steven Mopsick – He is now part of ACA Tax Advisory Panel (30)
• 03: Democrats Abroad urgently requests “expat tax stories” for May 15th IRS hearing (31)
• 02: Is citizenship-based taxation a violation of international law? (68)
• 02: Dianne didn't know the United States still thought she was an American (111)
• 02: FATCA Comments from Swedish Bankers Association (30)
• 02: Canadian Bar Association on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (17)
• 02: Is it really Wealthy Americans who are Queuing to Give Up Passports in the Swiss Capital? (27)
• 02: It wouldn't make sense if you could see it anyway (2)
• 01: John Weston MP invites former IRS Deputy Commissioner to Canada (9)
• 01: U.S. Lectures China on Human Rights (2)
• 01: Interesting FATCA comment letter (44)
• 01: Brazilian Bankers Association on FATCA Proposed Rules (18)
• 01: You've lost your house and job but your taxes are up, welcome to the American Nightmare (1)
• 01: How did I miss notice about public hearings on FATCA? (45)
• 01: Dutch Finance Secretary sidesteps hostile questions from lawmakers on FATCA (9)
• 01: A Cautionary Tale (4)
• 01: Bank Bailouts in Canada (2)
• 01: Top EPA official resigns over "crucify" comment (4)

April 2012

• 30: Updated: World Council of Credit Unions on FATCA (33)
• 30: OVDI video removed – thank God! (3)
• 29: US Senator Rand Paul blocks US Treaty ratification (18)
• 29: Canada Revenue Agency Competant Authority Services (4)
• 29: Form 8854, FBAR and the Fifth Amendment (120)
• 29: 460 people lost U.S. citizenship in Q1 2012, claims government; various names missing (13)
• 28: Carl Levin, Roger Conklin, FATCA, hitchhikers, and the Trojan Horse (6)
• 28: Attention: OVDI penalty may be collectable in Canada (9)
• 28: What if FATCA is just too illegal and no FFI signs up for it? (8)
• 28: Cut Off/Left Adrift (12)
• 28: Guilty until proven innocent at the border (14)
• 27: Canadian Charitable donations may be claimed on USA taxes (16)
• 27: No one can serve two tax masters: How I zeroed out my 2010 US tax return using TaxAct (UPDATED) (34)
• 27: Poll: will notorious tax cheat Timmy Geithner violate Internal Revenue Code 6039G(d) for the eighth time? (17)
• 27: Breaking Ranks (13)
• 27: MD Physician Services Funds (Canada) on FATCA (1)
• 26: World Council of Credit Unions on FATCA (16)
• 26: No one can serve two Tax Masters: A DIY investor's thoughts about compliance with Canadian and United States taxes (36)
• 25: Technical Schmectnical – Ridiculous Border Issue (3)
• 25: My 2011 taxes: TaxAct Free online preparation (22)
• 25: Video about OVDI – Have a look at this and comment (62)
• 25: 93-Year-Old Tennessee Woman Who Cleaned State Capitol For 30 Years Denied Voter ID (7)
• 25: A celebrity's relinquishment report from Taipei, 2009 (3)
• 24: Relinquishment Report from Hong Kong (15)
• 24: How big is the US tax code? Not as big as the US tax rules. (9)
• 24: Worthwhile Canadian Initiative and citizenship based taxation (0)
• 24: FCPA as a profit center? Smells horribly like FATCA and FBAR. (4)
• 24: Ireland joins FATCA talks (2)
• 24: WSJ Column on US Citizenship Renouncement (28)
• 24: Hiding money from your spouse can be a federal crime, if in a foreign account (26)
• 24: Two small English-speaking countries with very different reactions to FATCA (12)
• 23: Canadian Medical Association position on FATCA and FBAR(Must Read) (9)
• 23: Letter from MP Denise Savoie to President Obama (37)
• 23: Shulman's successor (12)
• 23: South Korean finance minister sells his country's sovereignty to the IRS, surrenders to FATCA (8)
• 23: "Pre-Crime Prevention" Technology at the US Border (14)
• 22: Obama Responds to OVDI Concerns, or NOT! (78)
• 22: The Peter Dunn (x2) interview uploaded (43)
• 21: Mark Nestmann's story of a Mexican (20)
• 21: Institute for Justice is suing the IRS (11)
• 21: IRS FAQs on "Canadian and U.S. Tax Issues" (19)
• 21: "Professional" Misinformation (4)
• 20: Radio Interview with Pete the Planner (36)
• 20: IRS OVDI: Holding the IRS to Proper Payment Application (35)
• 20: Missing Comments (7)
• 20: “Peaceful resistance” to FATCA will result in an alternative financial system (12)
• 20: Taxpayer Advocate – @YourvoiceATIRS retweeted the following! (6)
• 20: Senate Bill 1813 Passport Confiscation and “Stop Taxhaven Abuse” (32)
• 20: Canada-US Travel Imbalance (8)
• 19: Remaining a dual citizen (1) : passport renewal (96)
• 19: My Thoughts on U.S. Citizenship for Young People (27)
• 19: Who is the real Peter Dunn? (35)
• 19: US bullies the EU into sharing passenger data (3)
• 19: Countries compete for immigrants who are entrepreneurs – Join the discussion (9)
• 19: When your customers fear complexity – FBAR, 5471, 8938, 8891, 3520, PFIC and more … (14)
• 19: Message to financial planners: The rules are NOT the same for U.S. citizens living abroad (1)
• 19: CNN Video on Tax-refund fraud (3)
• 19: Atossa "Tax time pushes Americans" article generates more than 6000 comments on Yahoo Finance (7)
• 19: Knocked flat by "horizontal equity" (18)
• 19: Two Border Tales (3)
• 18: More FATCA awareness, this time in Jamaica (9)
• 18: Who is the other Peter Dunn: Survey (78)
• 18: A Very Sad Case (18)
• 18: This is the government of the United States. I have nervous attacks. I cry all the time. (7)
• 18: No one can serve two tax masters (17)
• 18: An update from Geneva (15)
• 18: Thank you Mr. Steven Mopsick! (39)
• 17: On Constitutional and fundamental rights, expatriation, extra-territorial taxation: Responses to Roger Conklin's knowledgable friend (13)
• 17: DATCA is not Dead! It lives on… (146)
• 17: Congress may give IRS power to revoke passports (Updated) (28)
• 17: It's tax filing day in Form Nation – New HR Block blog offers tax tips for U.S. citizens abroad (6)
• 17: Blame Canada : Who is next in the United States grab for power? (10)
• 16: Why did they call it FATCA? Because you-know-what was already taken. (13)
• 16: Accounting Today, Two new posts on FATCA (17)
• 16: The Charter of Rights proves to be Canada’s gift to world – Happy 30th Birthday! (4)
• 16: China unleashes the new yuan (6)
• 16: My Certificate of Loss of Nationality (CLN) has arrived! (97)
• 16: A plea for comments to David Jolly’s NYT’s story on IHT Rendezvous. (22)
• 16: Reuter's article by Atossa Abrahamian (120)
• 15: NYTs article – For Americans Abroad, Taxes Just Got More Complicated (6)
• 15: Tax day: 1040 reasons you should know Nina Olson (28)
• 15: My response on Jack Townsend’s Open Forum Comments to Congress and IRS Regarding Tax Administration for Offshore Accounts (4/9/12) (17)
• 13: NDP leader Mulcair's dual citizenship – will this become a problem? (7)
• 13: Update from Democrats Abroad FBAR/FATCA task force (70)
• 13: A Message to VP Joe: Global minimum tax (whatever that means) – Making it a reality (5)
• 13: My Story (Em): The IRS thinks I am a "US person" but I know I am Canadian (113)
• 13: Barclays Bank pays tribute to United States: Chairman's United States tax bill (1)
• 12: Another expatriation driven by U.S. tax complexity and the time it takes – Expatriation is on the rise! (23)
• 12: October to March: US government borrows 53 cents on every dollar in "budget" (2)
• 12: News from 30-year IRS vet: IRS will track expats using Form 1099R (24)
• 11: The U.S. government and the Constitution: Fifth amendment continued (5)
• 11: My response on Jack Townsend's Open Forum Comments to Congress and IRS Regarding Tax Administration for Offshore Accounts (4/9/12) (12)
• 11: Swiss Federal Administrative Court Seems to be on Our Side (8)
• 11: U.S. Censorship (11)
• 10: Senator Obama's Promises to Americans Abroad (28)
• 10: My Certificate of Loss of Nationality is in the mail (52)
• 10: Open Forum Comments to Congress and IRS Regarding Tax Administration for Offshore Accounts (9)
• 10: Tough Canadian tax penalty raises fairness concerns – It's about non-disclosure (5)
• 10: FBAR and the constitution: A Fifth Amendment Update (11)
• 10: Bank of Israel wants to negotiate tax deal on U.S. citizens with Israeli accounts – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News (27)
• 09: Democrats Abroad Canada Annual General Meeting reports on FBAR/FATCA task force (19)
• 09: Citizenship-based tax proposed by Sarkozy (9)
• 09: Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes (3)
• 08: Border Crossings — In the News (23)
• 08: FATCA news from the Kingdom of Jordan (2)
• 08: A Residence Based Tax Proposal – working paper issued by ACA (17)
• 07: Unnecessary (1)
• 07: Civic groups filling in where the IRS falls down on the job: educating immigrant taxpayers about FBAR and FATCA (5)
• 06: Column by MP Jean Crowder (NDP) on FATCA (3)
• 06: Shulman won't accept a 2nd term (Did anyone really ask him to stay?) (112)
• 06: Civil disobedience in the face of desperate government: John Rubino video (28)
• 06: 2012's Q1 has come to a close…What ARE those expatriation numbers? (29)
• 05: Biden: Tax the world (16)
• 05: Conversation between two ex-pats in Switzerland (17)
• 05: IRS Letter: "If we don't hear from you, we may have to increase the tax you owe or reduce your refund" (26)
• 05: US = Weak Data Protection! (5)
• 04: Domestic literacy levels make "corr" audits difficult and spur TAS to launch a pilot program using a “virtual service delivery” as another option (9)
• 04: World's Highest Corporate Tax Rate Hurts U.S. Economically (11)
• 04: Russia forming government task force to look into FATCA deal (14)
• 03: Take the Money and Run…for office. (15)
• 03: Federal appeals court challenges Obama (2)
• 03: A behind-the-scenes look at how a government might work at connecting an activist group with a terrorist one, by Chris Hedges (6)
• 03: Financial Repression (4)
• 03: Let the spin begin… (13)
• 02: TD Bank Group is looking for a new FATCA Senior Manager (16)
• 02: Obama Says Congress Will Vote on 'Buffett Rule' Millionaire Tax (1)
• 02: Chicken soup for the immigrant soul – Getting a good night sleep for less than $10,000 (8)
• 02: Global business groups warn India over new tax plan – How about a push back over FATCA? (2)
• 02: Canada's Banks Under Fire (13)
• 02: Disproportionate Effort to Chase a Few (174)
• 02: Foreign Earned Income Exclusion-killing "Budget For All" defeated (11)
• 01: Tax Lawyer to the Stars Sees Problems with International Tax Enforcement (7)
• 01: FATCA freight train- It's taken two years but it seems its whistle is finally being heard. (19)
• 01: UVic Professor from US denied permanent residence because autistic child deemed too expensive to Canadian health system (16)
• 01: FATCA could send fund groups ‘back to the dark ages’ (2)

March 2012

• 31: Switzerland seeks arrest of German tax collectors (9)
• 30: The real probability of a FrankenFATCA (16)
• 30: To have been a fly on the wall during these conferences yesterday and today (5)
• 30: An early April Fools Joke (1)
• 30: U.S. Tax-Evasion Probes Said to Slow as Prosecutors Transfer (14)
• 30: Ron Paul – "The border can be used to keep us in" – Politician or Prophet? (6)
• 30: Update from Credit Union Central of Canada on Budget and #FATCA (41)
• 30: Flaherty hikes border shopping limits (7)
• 30: One-third of Americans Abroad Caucus supports passport-confiscation "highway" bill (15)
• 29: Canada's official opposition party takes a stand on FATCA and issues that affect dual nationals (68)
• 29: Attention In vitro Americans, you may not even be American! (11)
• 29: Report on March 26 Ottawa Centre meeting on FBAR and FATCA (28)
• 29: And, FATCA news from Lebanon too (1)
• 29: FATCA News from Israel (18)
• 28: Congratulations to France/Canada dual citizen Thomas Mulcair – What if he had been a Canada/U.S. dual citizen? (13)
• 28: Land of the Fee-The cost of offshore tax compliance (to the IRS) (14)
• 27: Can't Go Home: Americans In Canada Share Health Care Stories (13)
• 27: Letter to Jim Flaherty and Letter from UK govt to US (23)
• 27: Good Videos on FATCA and related issues (7)
• 27: "There are alternative approaches to remedying past non-compliance" says KPMG (12)
• 27: A Global #FATCA( or is #GATCA) in the future (120)
• 27: Congressional Progressive Caucus "Budget For All" would end Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (75)
• 26: The IRS and OVDI: Unintentional manslaughter or intentional murder? (26)
• 26: Canadians have $100M stashed in Liechtenstein (3)
• 26: The nature of the beast: feeding on EX-pats (22)
• 26: "Organisation of Swiss Citizens Abroad" denounces discrimination by Swiss banks. (25)
• 25: Travelling between the UK and Canada (14)
• 25: FATCA Info Session, Ottawa, 26 March (63)
• 25: U.S. citizenship "resignation" vs. U.S. citizenship "renunciation" (15)
• 25: A real life story of a "US Person" chased out of the US (50)
• 25: Video: Robert Wood speaks with Scott Drake on loss of U.S. citizenship (7)
• 24: Consulate Report Directory (Brockers describe their Consulate Meetings) Part 1 of 2 (929)
• 24: Zakaria: America needs a 2-page tax code (32)
• 24: IRS Volunteer Opportunity — Where is the Representation for US Persons Living in Other Countries? (16)
• 24: Head of Americans Abroad Caucus questions Geithner about banking issues (56)
• 23: IRS May Draft Cops to Catch Tax Cheats, Official Tells Senate (6)
• 23: FATCA Makes Banks Shut Out Americans (29)
• 23: The Ever Increasing Police State (4)
• 23: IRS audit rate jumps for multimillionaires (9)
• 23: How the IRS treats foreigners in the US (4)
• 22: I hope we are not confused with domestic tax protesters or the sovereign citizen movement (57)
• 21: New letter from Flaherty about FATCA (49)
• 21: US "Persons" in Israel and tax issues (9)
• 21: No U.S. Tax Compliance, No U.S. Passport = Increased demand for a second passport (43)
• 21: U.S. IRS forms 'SWAT team' for tax dodger crackdown (21)
• 20: Life is full of firsts, including your first FBAR (12)
• 20: House GOP budget plan to target taxes (4)
• 19: CRA Replies Regarding FATCA (72)
• 19: Consulate Visit Reports, Organised by Location (101)
• 19: New Obama campaign video notes that Obama has changed the way people view the U.S. – Right On! (2)
• 19: Toronto tempts bankers tense about Volcker rule – Even the banks want out of the U.S. (7)
• 19: US Tax and Filing for Canadian Residents — a Presentation by Roy Berg, Moodys Tax Advisors (19)
• 18: US Tax Policies = Margaret Thatcher's Poll Tax (12)
• 18: Oh Canada! Our Home and Adopted Land (15)
• 18: Ignorance is an excuse in the case of FBAR (20)
• 17: Prominent US Tax Professor and blogger coming to McGill University (5)
• 17: It's not 1980 anymore, it's 1984 (14)
• 17: Dueling Editorials.. DATCA vs FATCA (13)
• 17: Accounting Firm PromoInfo US/Canada (0)
• 17: A story from OVDI hell or: How to exact tribute from a country without firing a shot (58)
• 17: Ontario Legislature Proclaims October 13th General Isaac Brock Day (0)
• 16: Busy Night at Isaac Brock Society: CRA Response on FBAR (46)
• 16: Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney sends letter to Geithner on FATCA (9)
• 16: Canada in the Crosshairs? (5)
• 16: Bad Press for us in Financial Times (4)
• 16: U.S. taxation of non-resident citizens places unfair burdens on our countries of residence (19)
• 16: Ides of March (4)
• 15: Dear Mr. Congressman (20)
• 15: What the U.S. could learn from Switzerland (2)
• 15: Senate passes passport-confiscation "highway bill" (S. 1813) (47)
• 15: If you have a WordPress account, you must be logged in to comment (for some reason) (7)
• 14: Relinquishment and Renunciation Data (as reported on Isaac Brock), Part 1 (1117)
• 14: IRS lacks authority to impose tax on tax by regulating tax preparers – Lawsuit alleges (6)
• 14: Government responded to NDP written question on FBAR (10)
• 14: An Historical Primer for the War of 1812 (2)
• 13: Former Premier of New South Wales Australia Kristina Keneally a renounced US citizen (34)
• 13: Congress to introduce Foreign Washing Machine Compliance Act (FWMCA) to fight offshore abuse of Tide Detergent (13)
• 13: Declaration of Independence read by Hollywood types (4)
• 13: Why "Isaac Brock"? Reloaded (35)
• 12: Change of tone by Canadian Bankers Association? (27)
• 12: Check out the following page on HR Block site – suggests U.S. citizens must enter Voluntary Disclosure (56)
• 12: Whatchamacallit (30)
• 11: Getting Media Attention on Harmful US Citizenship Tax policy (68)
• 11: To Minister Of Finance: Canadians Are Desperate! (71)
• 11: Late Loyalist renounces (86)
• 10: Two prominent members of European Parliament raise concern over FATCA five agreement (6)
• 10: Help wanted: Forum administrator needed (27)
• 10: The CBC offers a primer but a little knowledge is a dangerous thing (17)
• 10: Moby "Opt Out" update (37)
• 09: Canadians: Write to Privacy Commissioner and Politicians! (46)
• 09: The cost of U.S. tax compliance, the costs of non-compliance and how to choose the right lawyer (18)
• 09: Shulman and Flaherty Summit Ends: IRS and CRA to merge (11)
• 09: ACA Writes Commissioner Shulman About Unfair IRS Treatment of Americans Overseas (14)
• 09: Senators cram multiple anti-expat amendments into "Surface Transportation Bill" (S. 1813) (30)
• 09: Your Citizenship Personality (72)
• 08: Update: Son of FATCA proposal approved by Senate on voice vote (70)
• 08: A different kind of disclosure path for expats? (37)
• 08: Taxing your primary dwelling: Another reason that United States Expats must relinquish their American citizenship (67)
• 07: A Destructive IRS Mandate (30)
• 07: IRS Invents Chinese Billionaire (2)
• 07: Canadian Federally Funded Media Carries IRS Water: CBC scaring Canadians (UPDATED) (84)
• 07: The New US Trade "Task Force": Levelling the playing field or lashing out? (4)
• 06: Interesting comments by Halifax MP Megan Leslie on FATCA (28)
• 06: Americans in Sweden Suffer U.S. Tax Crackdown (34)
• 06: Swiss Parliament, a Den of Traitors! (26)
• 05: Reply From Canadian Bankers Association (Updated) (71)
• 05: FATCA and Lebanon (5)
• 04: War of 1812: Isaac Brock thought an American attack on Upper Canada was inevitable – Great read! (3)
• 04: Avoid U.S. law and jurisdiction – Bye, bye AvoidUS.com – Hello AvoidUS.ca (5)
• 04: Class action suits (124)
• 04: Roseanne – Tax Day (7)
• 04: When Bygones aren't Bygones (26)
• 03: One-man village savings bank in Switzerland (2)
• 03: Noli me tangere: An Open Letter to Honourable James Flaherty, Canadian Minister of Finance (24)
• 03: Prepared Remarks of Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman before Tax Council Policy Institute 15.02.2012 (28)
• 03: Full Ostrich (33)
• 02: Canadian House of Commons votes to legalize sports betting (1)
• 02: United States "overcharging" the Russians: Why the United States needs its expats (7)
• 01: Negative Option Marketing (35)
• 01: Any males aged between 18-25 who have renounced? (14)
• 01: Where is America headed? (23)
• 01: Does FATCA officially mean the end of banking privacy? (3)
• 01: Courage (3)

February 2012

• 29: Calvin Ayre, Fugitive from United States Justice (19)
• 29: The State of the U.S. Congress (13)
• 29: What Does Not Constitute Reasonable Cause (24)
• 29: Playing With Numbers (40)
• 28: How the US treats its citizens as "Chumps". The example of Emirates Airlines (44)
• 28: Perceptions of an Overseas Voter – the Saga Continues (54)
• 28: Playing the Corporate Audit Lottery… (21)
• 27: Alberta launches skilled worker "recruitment" program to get US Workers to come to Canada (17)
• 27: A Jell-O Shot from Phil…"Everyone is an American" Edition. (11)
• 27: What Questions Are Asked to Get a US Tourist Visa? (9)
• 27: New Calls for Total Tax Code Overhaul (8)
• 27: Swiss-French TV article about WikiLeaks and US Intelligence company (3)
• 27: Who is a US Citizen? (6)
• 26: 1998 Treasury/IRS Report on US Citizens abroad and expatriation (11)
• 26: Blimey! IRS Computers Dun British Lord for $13 Million (9)
• 26: The Perceptions of an Overseas U.S. Voter (51)
• 25: What are taxes? (21)
• 25: Notable quotations about freedom and justice: Open Thread (39)
• 25: Not OVDI, says Michael J. Miller, with regard to an offshore account scenario (25)
• 25: Where's Steven? (19)
• 25: Taiwan bankers urge government to surrender sovereignty to IRS on FATCA (47)
• 24: Official Interpretations of U.S. Expatriation (1)
• 24: Supreme court Decisions on Loss of Nationality: Appendix B of State Department Foreign Affairs Manual (4)
• 24: 2012 Declaration of Independence (12)
• 24: Occupy the SEC: Former Wall Street Workers Defend Volcker Rule Against Banks' Anti-Regulatory Push (10)
• 23: Letter from Consulate General July 25, 1980 (52)
• 23: Obama signs payroll tax agreement into law (doesn't help Minnows Abroad or Jack and Jill) — Foreign Income Exclusion Threatened — Start writing letters folks!! (33)
• 22: Ambassador Jacobson's 70 Year Old Grandma (22)
• 22: Weasel Words (4)
• 22: Jack and Jill Make A Movie: War of 2012 (22)
• 22: The IRS is bluffing–Bad faith in the OVDI (40)
• 22: Ron Paul's letter to Timothy Geithner regarding FATCA (18)
• 21: Coalition for Tax Competition Letter Seeks Withdrawal of Destructive IRS Interest-Reporting Regulation (23)
• 21: OPT OUT OF YEAR 2012: Jack and Jill opt out and relinquish their US citizenship (48)
• 21: Tax Analysts reports that IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman will simply ignore his statutory duty to respond to TAD (20)
• 20: EU Parliament and FATCA (13)
• 20: Canadian Parliamentary Delegation Visiting DC This Week (6)
• 20: Response from the Honourable Bob Rae, Leader of Liberal Party of Canada (13)
• 20: The mentality of Mordor : Montreal couple Jack and Jill belong to the UNITED STATES / Jack et Jill, un couple montréalais, appartiennent aux ETATS UNIS (149)
• 20: Press Release by American Citizens Abroad (ACA) – New Residency Based Taxation Proposal (16)
• 20: FATCA draft regulations: exemptions for pensions (14)
• 20: From the Globe … (3)
• 20: United States Consulate in Vancouver: Procedures for Renunciation of Citizenship (18)
• 20: FATCA fever reaches Hong Kong (14)
• 19: On the "Simple" Extension of the 2% Reduction in Payroll Taxes (53)
• 19: It's more important that the guilty be punished than the innocent be free – what would John Adams say? (15)
• 19: Three Recent News Items Translated from the Swiss Press (7)
• 19: Tracking Foreign Tax legislation in Congress (27)
• 18: FATCA Take II: Finding U.S.Tax Evaders Abroad Gets Easier (4)
• 18: Isaac Brock Society is the Best PR for Canada Revenue Agency: Open Thread (3)
• 18: Seeking Canadian Legal Opinion on FATCA (7)
• 18: From the archive: Open Letter to the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature (1)
• 16: What is the Systemic Risk of Citizenship taxation to the World’s Economy…. (53)
• 16: How would you challenge FATCA if you were a world leader? (15)
• 16: FATCA means Americans will pay more for things like Toilet Paper (38)
• 16: Are China, Russia, the EU and Switzerland poised to give in to FATCA? (27)
• 16: The Case of Karl Jaspers (0)
• 15: Canadians for Tax Fairness Summit March 29th and 30th (5)
• 15: From the archives: Dialogue with brave Jim_in_Houston (5)
• 15: American Presidents Speak About Canada (4)
• 15: Looking for Mr. FBAR – In Search of FBAR Fullfilment and Consciousness (29)
• 15: Notice to Swiss Authorities: Canada resists US extraterritorial tax policies, Switzerland must too (13)
• 15: FBAR: On the impossibility of a fair trial for expats (16)
• 15: Miranda Rights, FBAR, and the IRS's Offshore Voluntary Disclosure (27)
• 14: New Regulations Clarify How Non-US Banks Will Find And Report US Customers To The IRS: guest post (40)
• 14: Who Won The War of 1812? (3)
• 14: Interesting Globe and Mail Articles on Taxes in Canada (4)
• 14: John Nolan on the possibility of a Constitutional challenge to FBAR (30)
• 14: BBC Panorama – Poor America (23)
• 14: How Charles Dickens viewed the US when he visited in 1842 (6)
• 14: More Swiss News (6)
• 14: U.S. Passport as Enforcement Tool (8)
• 13: Canadian citizens still protected from IRS tax collection and penalties, in Canada (54)
• 13: U.S. cranks up the pressure on banks in Switerland (7)
• 13: Lessons for the U.S. Government: “The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End” (2)
• 13: Feb 13, 2012 FATCA article (10)
• 13: Germany has its own Fatca (18)
• 12: What is the REAL Size of the U.S. Federal Tax Code (15)
• 12: Is the US going to collapse by 2025? (39)
• 12: Citizens as property of government – The tragic story of Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (61)
• 12: The true meaning of U.S. reporting requirements – is privacy a value? (2)
• 12: Yet another renunciant whose name isn't in the Federal Register. How many more are there? (14)
• 12: After Five Decades of Abuse, Enough is Enough! (19)
• 12: Extreme Measures (14)
• 11: Steven Mopsick's blogspot and his latest post (110)
• 11: Is a Certificate of Loss of Nationality really necessary? New FATCA regulations are in gobbledygook (67)
• 11: Interesting historical source of US Canada tax information (1)
• 10: Eritrea evil; USA good (13)
• 10: Bring Back the Money…. (9)
• 10: "IRS Commissioner Doesn't File Own Taxes: I Find The Tax Code Too Complex" – Interview with C-SPAN (19)
• 10: Interesting Columns from Peter Clark (3)
• 10: Chinese workers front line soldiers in China's new commercial empire (4)
• 10: Fifth Amendment II: Two court cases of offshore account subpoenas (9)
• 10: The US is Morphing Into East Berlin, by Monty Pelerin (27)
• 10: Poll: What if you could sell or exchange US citizenship? (42)
• 10: Citizenship and Hard Decisions (69)
• 10: How Many U.S. Citizens in Canada? (8)
• 10: And now, for something completely different! (8)
• 09: Flaherty's original Sep 16 2011 Letter (11)
• 09: Fifth Amendment: Belated FBAR filings are a substantial hazard (20)
• 09: Re: OVDI Switcheroo: Canadian RRSP back in the penalty base (12)
• 09: What does it mean for you? (14)
• 09: Head of Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce to dual Swiss/US citizens: I advise you to renounce US citizenship (8)
• 08: Latest article from our "friend" Barrie McKenna (26)
• 08: U.S. Treasury says, "When taxpayers overseas avoid paying what they owe, other Americans have to bear a disproportionate share of the tax burden" (13)
• 08: OVDI Switcheroo: Canadian RRSP back in the penalty base (54)
• 08: Letters from IRS starting to come in (41)
• 08: New FATCA comments from Flaherty (10)
• 08: Treasury, IRS Issue Proposed Regulations for FATCA Implementation – DATCA (lite) (24)
• 08: BREAKING NEWS: UK Government Statement on FATCA (23)
• 08: Son of FATCA: Carl Levin's "CUT Loopholes Act" (S.2075) will make normal business even harder for American expat entrepreneurs and all other Americans abroad (12)
• 08: FATCA is not Queenston Heights, says 30-year IRS veteran (40)
• 07: For those of you in Brazil interesting letter related to FATCA (29)
• 07: Cover Story in Canadian Lawyer Magazine (0)
• 07: I breathed a sigh of relief that Reuters didn't mention people who renounce their citizenship (4)
• 07: US tax and filing for Canadian residents – Upcoming Free Public Presentations in Alberta — Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton (7)
• 07: Life, liberty and property: Why is a person's principle dwelling part of the OVDP? (20)
• 07: Dear Mr. Flaherty: A 2011 voluntary disclosure story from a late loyalist (14)
• 07: What facts will NOT support reasonable cause arguments for FBAR? (88)
• 07: Politicians all around the world discuss FATCA (27)
• 07: Ratio for FBAR Noncompliance (7)
• 06: ET, the new alien scaring global markets (ExtraTerritoriality) (10)
• 06: Letter from the IRS (69)
• 06: New Debate on Swiss TV (13)
• 06: Sweeter than Honey II: The purpose of man according to the law (0)
• 06: Ex (10)
• 05: American Citizens Abroad (ACA) recommendations for fundamental tax reform has been posted. (36)
• 05: Re: 30 Year IRS Lawyer and 2012 OVDI – What about the December 2011 FS? (17)
• 05: How many Americans naturalise in European Union countries each year? (27)
• 04: The 30-yr IRS Vet on the 2012 Overseas Voluntary Disclosure program (38)
• 04: ‘Just Me’: A View From Inside the IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (120)
• 04: Three Anecdotes (31)
• 03: Sweeter than honey I: Introduction (4)
• 03: Give the Taxpayer Advocate Service a piece of your mind. (49)
• 03: Citizenship renunciations soar under Obama – Renouncing U.S. citizenship as an act of self-defense (42)
• 03: A Day in the Life of an American Emigrant (32)
• 02: The rationale behind FATCA: 30-year IRS vet (31)
• 02: 1,781 Americans renounced citizenship in 2011, according to the Federal Register (33)
• 02: Tagline changed: removal of "in Canada and" (7)
• 01: Keeping Tabs – More Banks "Firing" US Clients (3)
• 01: Comment from a 30-year IRS vet (47)
• 01: DFAIT Info Section on Dual Nationality (13)
• 01: Financial Post: Canada-U.S. trade relationship drifting apart (8)
• 01: Scotia Bank: December 31 Letter to Clients from Scotiabank, for review (38)
• 01: The Great Escape – the Future of the American Diaspora (32)
• 01: Swiss People's Party Editorial on Swiss Gov't Policy, Banking, Sharing of Information (3)

January 2012

• 31: Appreciated Conversation with Honourable Mike Sullivan (NDP), fellow US Person in Canada … Reasonable Cause, Certificates of Loss of Nationality, etc. (41)
• 31: Freedom of Emigration in East-West Trade, USC Title 19 § 2432 (15)
• 31: FBAR penalties for "reasonable cause". The Unknown unknowns. (40)
• 31: Welcome to the United States: Lesson I. Watch what you tweet (18)
• 30: Access to Basic Banking Services (Canada) (17)
• 30: Isaac Brock and Facebook (5)
• 30: Only the U.S. may tax its citizens living abroad – U.S. condemns use of Diaspora tax for other countries (87)
• 30: FATCA, Place of Birth in Passports & Second Class Citizenship (37)
• 30: Only U.S. citizens abroad have issues – that must be why the IRS is hunting U.S. citizens abroad (3)
• 30: IRS hunts U.S. citizens residing outside the U.S., while many U.S. residents pay no income tax (37)
• 29: The Long View (4)
• 29: Ways & Means considers territorial-based taxation for corporations (17)
• 29: Tax Treaty in conflict with Canada's Human Rights Act (24)
• 29: And the IRS was silent … (9)
• 29: AllGov calls renunciants "tax cheats": My response (15)
• 29: Penalty for having any American Association – The Citizenship Discrimination (19)
• 29: The tail wags the cow: Roger Conklin on past lobbying efforts (5)
• 29: Internet Censorship on the Horizon: ACTA, Twitter and the FBI (4)
• 29: Phil Hodgen nods (2)
• 28: How Many Extraterritorial U.S. Citizens? (8)
• 28: Fox News Video: Increasing numbers of U.S. citizens renouncing (86)
• 28: CanuckDoc responds to Finance Minister, Hon. Jim Flaherty's letter (8)
• 28: US Treasury Aims To Lower FATCA Burdens (6)
• 28: Estate Planing — as US Persons living abroad, what should the instructions be (for us still connected in any way to the US)? (14)
• 28: The OVDI Drudgery for Minnows (366)
• 27: Debt Limit raised: Open Thread (7)
• 27: My letter to the IRS (17)
• 27: Reply letter from Minister of Finance, Hon. Jim Flaherty (15)
• 27: Collateral Damage? (8)
• 27: IRS News Room – Do You See Anything Wrong Here? (47)
• 27: An Open Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper From A Loyal Canadian (6)
• 27: US tax policy, FATCA, FBAR criticized on a Swiss website: the embarrassment of the United States — English translation of the open letter (11)
• 27: U.S. passport renewal information to be reported to the IRS – January 26, 2012 (13)
• 27: Quick Post – IRS tightening reporting obligations (3)
• 27: US tax policy, FATCA, FBAR criticized on a Swiss website: the embarrassment of the United States (27)
• 27: Dark Web? (15)
• 26: Dual citizen from Brazil trying to do the right thing (87)
• 26: Dual citizenship and forced marriages, by Alison Symington (6)
• 26: Yet another expat goes to Halifax (6)
• 26: My further correspondence with one of our Canadian NDP Members of Parliament (12)
• 26: Draft Fatca regulations will include reciprocity, experts say – Risk.net (36)
• 26: In the meantime, response due from Douglas Shulman, today. (20)
• 26: Why You Should Care About FATCA (6)
• 25: U.S. Passport specifically informs citizens about tax requirements but is silent about FBAR (20)
• 25: An Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) Minnow "Opt Out" Success by Moby (68)
• 25: Detailed Legal View on U.S. Citizenship Loss and Taxation (16)
• 25: Paperjam.lu says, "Fatca, c'est Kafka" (14)
• 25: The State of the Union from an expat's perspective (13)
• 25: Who is responsible for building awareness of tax and reporting regulations? (35)
• 25: Tax Evaders Renounce U.S. Citizenship (18)
• 24: IRS Commissioner Shulman to Deliver Keynote Speech at Tax Council Policy Institute Annual Symposium, February (4)
• 24: Visit to Halifax Consulate (28)
• 24: Karcan's Story (3)
• 24: Uncertainty (1)
• 24: We get a nod from ACA (9)
• 23: FATCA: The need-to-know basis is not satisfied (87)
• 23: Attorney, CPA, EA or Registered Tax Preparer – Your choice of dance partner – Tax compliance (46)
• 23: The FATCA of file sharing. For now, it's going in that direction. (2)
• 23: EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (13)
• 22: Russ Hunt's FBAR / FACTA information sheet (17)
• 22: Just Me writes on the question: Has the IRS stolen my life? (54)
• 22: FBAR consciousness moving closer to Canadian border (15)
• 22: U.S. citizenship has been priced out of the market (7)
• 22: The IRS is the biggest obstacle to tax compliance for U.S. citizens living outside the United States (2)
• 22: Partisan Politics in Canada (13)
• 21: What would happen if Indonesia reclaimed its most famous former citizenship? (32)
• 21: Finance Canada says we have the opportunity to have our say (4)
• 21: Lawbreakers making rules: Charles B. Rangel, D (NY) (34)
• 21: Has your life been stolen from you by the IRS? (74)
• 21: Myths about Americans Abroad (48)
• 20: How it feels to be totally renounced – from Toronto (52)
• 20: Queen's University Professor available to talk about IRS going after 1 million 'US persons' in Canada (10)
• 20: Watchdog slams IRS for alienating expats, Barrie McKenna (25)
• 20: Why Hiding is No Longer a Viable Option (26)
• 19: Roger Conklin writes about why he left Brazil in 1977 (9)
• 19: Washington Post: You FATCATS have no place to hide from FATCA (20)
• 19: ANYONE in New Zealand: The US can have you EXTRADITED! (21)
• 19: Should Mitt Romney release his FBARs along with his tax returns? (36)
• 19: Keystone Aftermath Arrives: Canada Pledges To Sell Oil To Asia, As US Becomes Source Of "Uncertainty" Zero Hedge (5)
• 19: Focus (5)
• 18: People Aren't Listening – Remember this Poll? (22)
• 18: A message of hope for all humanity (1)
• 18: Accounting Today Talks about Renunciations (9)
• 18: Halifax Meeting with MP Megan Leslie (Updated) (30)
• 18: TD's bid for BankUnited falls through (2)
• 18: How to "get back" at the IRS (5)
• 18: Why does citizenship really matter (other than creating a mechanism to be taxed) (26)
• 18: US Citizens in Australia: The IRS can have you extradited! (19)
• 18: I finally found something: IRS extradites Americans abroad! (38)
• 18: A Word about Politicians (4)
• 17: A second response to Barrie McKenna (11)
• 17: The Isaac Brock Society becomes Brock's Army: Open Thread (9)
• 17: The clock is ticking on filing with the IRS by Barrie McKenna (17)
• 17: The two big obstacles to compliance with IRS tax and reporting requirements (7)
• 17: Obama Burdens the Banks: Weekly Standard (7)
• 17: What One French Bank Has to Say about FATCA (15)
• 16: The Watercooler is now open, for less public conversations (15)
• 16: On comments (UPDATE: comments no longer nested) (8)
• 16: Interesting Barrie McKenna article on "economic mobility" – citizenship-based taxation impedes economic mobility (4)
• 16: Impact on U.S. Spouses of Foreign Nationals (21)
• 15: Status Report : Growing pains at 30,000 views (15)
• 15: Deer in the headlights (9)
• 15: A workman is worthy of his hire (29)
• 15: Ten Reasons the United States is no longer the land of the Free: Washington Post (22)
• 15: Why I Think Peter Spiro is Right about Renunciations (23)
• 14: A Censored Forum is an Oxymoron: Why the Expat Forum is not a safe place for conversation and what we can learn from our experience there (42)
• 14: The Expat Forum has banned me (70)
• 14: Out of the Mouth of a Frenchling (10)
• 13: Taxpayer Advocate Services Report to Congress also addressed Taxpayer Rights, questionable we have all of these… (15)
• 13: Citizenship-based taxation, the U.S. trade deficit and the destruction of U.S. capital (1)
• 13: Know Your Client: US Banks closing investment accounts of non-resident citizens (25)
• 13: Overzealous spam filter: apologies (0)
• 13: Free Seminar: Roy A. Berg JD LLM (7)
• 13: FATCA Discussion Thread (Ask your questions) Part One (1012)
• 13: Renunciation and Relinquishment of United States Citizenship: Discussion thread (Ask your questions) (1795)
• 13: US expat tax and FBAR: Discussion thread (Ask your questions) Part One (578)
• 13: Fiscal Alternatives to Managing Human-Capital Flows (17)
• 12: Expat Tax Forum Hijacked (Updated) (50)
• 12: U.S. citizenship-based taxation harms U.S. economy (41)
• 12: The French mini-FATCA (9)
• 12: Canadian RRSPs and the OVDI penalty base (9)
• 12: Canadian RRSPs may receive special treatment in OVDP (6)
• 12: DOJ Nabs Non-US Citizen Resident (8)
• 12: New Reuters Article: IRS Bait and Switch (6)
• 12: Let's Remind People That This is an Election Year (31)
• 11: More Innocent Spouses Qualify for Relief Under New IRS Guidelines (6)
• 11: Taxpayer Advocate Service — 2011 Annual Report to Congress (10)
• 11: The Antidote from Just Me: Open Thread (20)
• 11: Staple a "Green Card" to every PhD – Don't fall for this! Don't immigrate to the U.S. (6)
• 11: Citizenship Without Consent in a Globalized Era (11)
• 10: A Canadian article carries Shulman's water (35)
• 10: IRS and Shulman have not acted sensibly or in a humane way (4)
• 10: Taxes, Elizabeth Warren, and the Limiting Principle (4)
• 10: Sokol says "For Tax Purposes, We are All Americans Now" (24)
• 10: Links and quotes from Just Me (0)
• 10: More on Services – You Want Compliance? I Want Help. (7)
• 10: Press Release: Isaac Brock Society (81)
• 09: IRS reopens the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program and promises new procedures for U.S. citizens living outside the United States (3)
• 09: Would Americans care if they knew where their taxes were going? (5)
• 09: IRS New Tax "Amnesty" Program says Commissioner Doug Shulman (34)
• 09: Dominant nationality protects individuals from state overreach (19)
• 09: The American In Canada – Transition Financial (0)
• 09: Taxpayer Advocate vs. The IRS – It’s a question of trust (34)
• 09: The War of 1812 is Canada's Fourth of July (1)
• 09: Scotiabank and FATCA (22)
• 09: A Loyalty Test? (17)
• 09: Two new articles on FATCA (3)
• 08: New Goal for REPEAL FATCA Petition (6)
• 08: Status Report at the milestone of 15,000 views (15)
• 08: Jimmy Carter Redux: The presidential pardon as the constitutional solution to the FBAR madness (23)
• 08: You Want Taxes? I Want Services… (22)
• 07: Further to Just Me's "Will Your Offshore Accounts Land You in Jail?" maybe all that is needed* is this translation: (23)
• 07: We shall fight on the beaches: Open thread (3)
• 07: Dominant nationality and why it matters (68)
• 07: Dual Citizenship and National Laws (11)
• 06: The Canada Party's nomination for POTUS (5)
• 06: New evidence media is waking up to FATCA story, Washington Times, Forbes, Fitch (4)
• 06: Patriotism and Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship – Should a U.S. Patriot Renounce? (7)
• 06: Will your Offshore Accounts Land you in Jail? Response from Just Me (1)
• 06: Hard Times for the American Diaspora (15)
• 05: Why I will not renounce (23)
• 05: Shouldn't disabled Canadians who happen to be "US Persons" receive, as other disabled Canadians, full benefit of the Registered Disability Savings Plan? (3)
• 05: Ambassador Jacobson's words as bad faith negotiation (updated with comments from Roy A. Berg) (12)
• 05: The taxpayer, the IRS and the "cross border professionals" – where to go from here (22)
• 05: Financial Post covers the Volcker Rule (9)
• 04: U.S.-born Campbell River senior fears Uncle Sam’s tax wrath (6)
• 04: Reasons to remain a U.S. citizen (16)
• 04: Civil Disobedience, FBAR and Forms 8854 and 8938 (16)
• 03: Wall Street Journal: Washington's Assault on American Expats (Updated with a comment) (4)
• 03: A law requiring the fair and equitable treatment of United States Citizens Living Outside the United States (1)
• 03: Do United States persons abroad differ substantially from residents of Washington D.C.? (33)
• 03: Another article by James Fallows (0)
• 02: On whether Isaac Brock should be our name: My e-mails to James Fallows (0)
• 02: Breaking news: The FATCA Menance by James Fallows (4)
• 02: Getting harder for American expats to open bank accounts (3)
• 01: James Fallows article in the Atlantic (7)
• 01: Approaching the media: Honey works better than vinegar (13)
• 01: A progressive gets it (3)
• 01: Banking Sanctions on Iran (1)

December 2011

• 31: Moodys LLP Seminars for CA, CMA, CGA and Legal Professionals (getting ready for US business) (11)
• 31: U.S. citizen employees and the FBAR requirement (12)
• 31: OVDI futility, Sally's free but what about the others (Updated) (2)
• 30: Important information for Canadians who have adopted a child from the USA or who intend to do so …. (13)
• 30: Why the US Doesn’t Want You to Renounce (17)
• 30: Obama unites the world against the U.S. (0)
• 30: Republicans are turning against Ron Paul (9)
• 30: My story (foxyladyhawk) (3)
• 29: FATCA — It will adversely affect Snowbird and other Canadian investment in Florida, Arizona and similar USA winter retreats. (10)
• 28: In the United States: Too much of the tax burden falls upon the wealthy (13)
• 28: Eroding Financial Privacy: PIPEDA & FATCA (0)
• 28: Double taxation, the tax treaty, and why GST/HST doesn't count (9)
• 28: Links and reflexions (8)
• 27: Outline for a book project: A proposal (14)
• 27: This Year's Big Events That Will Tax You… (1)
• 27: Dumping on Newt? Hardly (3)
• 27: Stop Citizenship-Based Taxation – Repeal FATCA (3)
• 26: U.S. citizens may have trouble finding qualified tax preparers (8)
• 25: Fear Fatca….the Book…not the show.. (6)
• 24: Breaking News: Santa Claus arrested (17)
• 24: FATCA's impact on publicly traded trusts (3)
• 23: Liberty's Exiles – Loyalists in the American Revolution (0)
• 23: Study on expats – Small way to help get the word out (1)
• 23: The stalker: divorce from the United States is a messy process (5)
• 22: Canadian RDSP (Registered Disability Savings Plan) (10)
• 22: FBAR-FATCA-Form 8938 filing requirements circumvent the 4th Amendment and are thus equal to the issuing of a General Warrant (8)
• 21: Sir Isaac Brock to get his own stamp! (0)
• 21: I've only been a Canadian since 28 February and our banks are already relinquishing our sovereignty to the United States (2)
• 21: Canadian Bankers Association Declares War On U.S. and Dual Canada U.S. Citizens – Suggest Accounts To Be Closed (11)
• 21: The Bank Secrecy Act and the basis of FBAR (8)
• 19: Getting the Message Out…. (6)
• 19: Forget about form 8854: US law establishes a right to unilateral expatriation (10)
• 19: Introducing KFOR–solving the US Federal deficit one foreign kitten at a time (5)
• 19: The term "aggregate" in IRS-speak is fraud commited against US persons (18)
• 18: Update on possible IRS FBAR relief to Canadians – IRS says no additional relief for Canadians (0)
• 17: Financial Post Article: Questions for Jamie Golombek (11)
• 16: The Tax Advocate features Amy Feldman's article (2)
• 16: From the archive: Did you relinquish? Here are some proofs that the State Department uses (14)
• 16: Big News! FATCA to be less onerous for certain U.S. citizens living outside the United States (13)
• 16: Did you relinquish before February 6, 1995? Then you did not have to inform the State Department (185)
• 16: Poll: Would you solve your problems – By moving back to the U.S.A.? (4)
• 15: FBAR spawns new industries and historical events (5)
• 14: No ex post facto law (4)
• 14: My Story – calgary411 (41)
• 14: My Story – Nobledreamer (2)
• 14: Why the Patriot Act Means That Patriots Must Act (1)
• 14: About the Isaac Brock Society (72)
• 13: Is it taxation without representation if you can vote? Damn right! (9)
• 13: The Best Investment in U.S. Defense: Join The World! Play Nicely! Repeal FATCA! (0)
• 13: The Canadian press is clueless, but this commenter gets it (5)
• 13: Is the taxation of US persons abroad constitutional? (41)
• 13: IRS Fact Sheet – What you need to do – remaining issue is how to do it (0)
• 12: Singapore fund manager recommends pulling investments out of the United States (5)
• 12: How to join (204)
• 12: Relinquish don't renounce, if you can (201)
• 12: We can't trust the IRS – But can we trust the accountants and lawyers? (13)
• 12: If Obama is a global citizen doesn’t that make him the President of the world? (0)
• 11: FATCA: A ticking time bomb for the economy (90)
• 11: We shall fight on the beaches: Open thread (2)
• 10: When government turns predator (49)