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Media and Blog Articles – part 2 of 11 (Year 2015)

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Media and Blog Articles

EmBee suggested that it would be good if there was a thread for new articles, so that people would be aware of where to comment. So, I created this permanent page.  You could mention such articles in the comment stream for this page, or if I see one on another thread, I can copy the link to here. I’ll keep adding to the list, but not deleting, so we’ll end up having sort of a “bibliography” too.  [Note:  Some articles are not open for comments]

For more articles on FATCA, enter FATCA into Google then click on the link “more news for fatca” just below the most recent featured article.

Note also: JC suggests to see #FATCA on Twitter for latest breaking news. JC finds that is quite a good source and there even are some international articles that one may read using Google Translate.” Others may help certain tweets and articles remain in elevated position by retweeting them.

Be sure to read the comment stream for this thread — there are usually very recent articles mentioned there that are not yet on this list.

2015.01.01
Raising revenue off Caribbean backs, Bruce Zagaris, NationNews, Barbados.
On or about 2016.01.01
16 issues to make 2016 candy for the market, Westfield Times.
2015.12.31
Tax reporting norms: FinMin updates guidance note on compliance, K.R. Srivats, Hindu Business Line, India.
2015.12.30
Top Tax Blogs from 2015, Tax Connections. (Congratulations to John Richardson and Lynne Swanson who placed 2nd and 4th!)
Global dragnet puts pressure on tax evaders as year-end deadlines loom, Jeff Gray, Globe and Mail, Canada.
IRS Employee Whose Job Was Assisting Victims Of Identity Theft Charged in $1 Million Identity Theft Tax Fraud, Paul Caron, TaxProfBlog, US.
How America’s Wealthiest Are Saving Billions Through a Private Tax System, TruthDig.
RA Returns Home, TaxProTalk forum.
2015.12.29
For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions, Noam Scheiber and Patricia Cohen, New York Times, US.
IRS Stirs Up New Crisis With Non-Profits Over Social Security Numbers, Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times.
DNC Must Heed Warning Bells From 2000, Bennet Kelley, Huffington Post, US.
2015.12.28
IRS Creates “International Practice Units” for their IRS Revenue Agents in International Tax Matters, Patrick Martin, Tax-Expatriation, US.
MF investors: Les than a4th comply with US tax law, Jayshree P. Upadhyay & Ashley Coutinho, Business Standard, India.
IRS service should improve after some saw their ‘worst tax season,” advocate says, Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch, US.

Articles from earlier in 2015 are at this link

 Articles from 2014 are at this link

Media and Blog Articles Open for Comment thread, Part 1 of 2, is at this link

Media and Blog Articles Open for Comment thread, Part 3 of 3, is at this link

1,837 thoughts on “Media and Blog Articles – part 2 of 11 (Year 2015)”

  1. @innocente
    I can appreciate the sentiment and it would certainly apply to the young, but what about in old age, when professional knowledge is out of date and licenses to practice those professions have expired? That is what is so nasty about this whole edict, the attack on our pensions and our ability to support ourselves in our old age.

  3. While the peons abroad deal with FATCA fallout, those who were supposed to be the targets (and from whatever countries) find other and better ways to evade their taxes / launder their money:

    http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/02/02/the-face-of-the-oligarch-recovery-luxury-skyscrapers-stay-empty-as-nyc-homeless-population-hits-record-high/

    So as Manhattan (and other big cities around the world) builds eight figure luxury apartment units merely to serve as bank accounts for international oligarchs, New York City’s homeless population soars to a new record high. It’s the ultimate manifestation of how criminal and crony this so-called “recovery” has been.

  7. @JC,

    Sounds like very promising news about the Bopp injunction:

    DOJ’s Delay Tactic Failed! Great News for 8.7 million overseas Americans! The Dayton Federal Court orders the following:
    1) the U.S. Treasury, IRS, and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network aka Defendants’ responses to Republicans Overseas Action’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction remain due on August 12, 2015 (which is about one week from the conference date of August 4),
    2) Republicans Overseas Action seven Plaintiffs’ reply to Defendants’ responses is due on August 26, 2015 (Republicans Overseas Action gets two weeks for replying), and
    3) a Preliminary Injunction hearing will be held on Friday September 4 at 1:30 p.m. in Dayton.

  11. I don’t know where to place this announcement, so please forgive the multiple posts.

    At long last I can share with you the Complete Collection of Senate Finance Committee Submissions, available at this website:

    http://fatca.eu.pn

    This is a free hosting site, hence it can be slow to load some of the larger documents.

    I downloaded and curated the entire set of submissions to both the Individual and International Tax Working Groups, saved only those having to do with CBT/FATCA/FBARs, deleted duplicates, and renamed files appropriately (some people used their names to submit either articles or letters from organizations; those files were renamed to reflect the actual content).

    I put this together in a site which enables the viewer to read each and every submission without having to separately download and open each one. This is meant to be more than simply an archive. I’m hoping that others will use this as a resource to help in our fights against US tax tyranny. This is an easy and ergonomic way to encourage others to read through the hundreds of intelligent, heartfelt letters sent to the Senate Finance Committee. Don’t let the effort of all those writers be in vain! Encourage others to read this!

    I thought this would take me a full day to do. Instead it consumed me for the past two weeks. I was moved to tears many times upon reading these heartfelt letters more than once, and moved to tears some more by coding issues. I’m no programmer, but the technical issues I encountered were almost as convoluted and enraging as trying to make sense of US tax forms (I said “almost”). There are still some problems. In some browsers, you have to negotiate several scrollbars, like curtain strings, to read down a page. But I can’t do any more to fix it. If you encounter any problems in viewing this site, or find any problems or broken links, please leave a response in this thread.

    Hope y’all find this useful. Please pass it along.

  12. Wonderful @ Barbara. These valuable submissions are now securely preserved and in a way that makes them so easy to access. It works great on our computer (Firefox browser). Thank you! I too read all of the submissions and found them to be really compelling.

  13. @JC re ‘US threatens to close UK expats accounts.’
    I googled that telegraph reporter, he is now resident in the US. I expect he has been personally affected. That’s the way other articles may emerge as influential people are fatca-ed.
    I wonder if David Milliband and his American wife have had their UK bank accounts reported/closed? He has been in the US close to the green card magic time to extract himself without incurring relevant cost.

  14. Great job

    Some of the submissions had graphics etc. (straight to the point / picture worth a thousand words and breaks up the reading cycle) This may have been good to also post

  15. @JakDac: Aiya! So sorry! One of your submissions wasn’t showing up in the dropdown menu. I just fixed that, and it’s there now, with the graphics you refer to.

    Your other submissions are there, but were renamed because they were articles written by others (e.g. Roger Conklin). I hope you understand my reasoning for doing that.

  17. @Barbara
    Thanks.
    I was wondering why doesn’t the whole world make passports without birthplace? Some countries do already. Is it SO important to have a birthplace on a passport? It would certainly make the lives of many easier an drake it harder for America to be so obnoxious. it would be HELPFUL.

  18. Most of the answers if one asks that of Google are some variation of:

    The purpose of a passport is to show other nations that you are a legal citizen of your particular nation of origin. For example, if you are American and want to enter the United Kingdom, you must show customs your passport in the United Kingdom to prove that you are a U.S. citizen before they will allow you entry.

    A bit simplistic and off the mark.

  19. @Calgary
    Just get rid of the “origin”. A legal citizen of the nation of residence suffices.
    Why don`t other countries HELP in that way? There are passports without birthplace. They should ALL be that way. Who cares where somebody was born? Only America.

  20. @polly
    The British passport only has the place of birth ie the town/ city, so if you were British but born in a US place such as Manchester NH or Boston MA, your British passport would only contain a British sounding birthplace for the banks. I wonder how long it will take for the US to insist it be changed to country of birth!

  22. @polly
    The swiss passport has ‘family origin’ not ‘place of birth’ which is basically the area where your family/ancestors originate, where you consider your home.

  23. @Heidi
    What in the world is “family origin”? Never heard of this.
    The swiss passport is actually the one I meant – no place of birth. It really is unnecessary, generally speaking.
    How many other passports have none?

  24. @polly
    For those who naturalise their origin will be the municipality/Canton where this takes place. For those born swiss or who marry swiss it is the region that their fathers/ husbands originate from. Records are kept of the origins of all those who leave.

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