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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)”

  4. @Barbara

    Yes, imagine the ability of anyone to tap into a data base of very angry US citizens who are unable to overcome the barriers to renunciation, but are still qualified to carry a US passport.

  6. @econ
    EXCELLENT ARTICLE! Best I have ever read on the topic. Why don`t the Washington DC knuckleheads get it?

  7. Opportunity to remind the author and readers of Harper’s treasonous role of implementing and enforcing a foreign US law FATCA in Canada:

    The Closing of the Canadian Mind

    By STEPHEN MARCHEAUG. 14, 2015

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/the-closing-of-the-canadian-mind.html?smid=tw-share

    The author is a Canadian in Toronto, perhaps he could be enlightened as to the existence of yet another of the Harper Cons betrayals of Canadian citizens and taxpayers;
    “A novelist and a columnist at Esquire Magazine who lives in Toronto.”

  8. Re: Economist Article on inversions: Enter Inverted logic into Google then click on the News tab – to get around subscription wall.

  10. Democrats Abroad: “Our Man in Washington Jim Black Puts FATCA into Perspective”

    https://www.democratsabroad.org/sites/default/files/_FATCA.pdf

    Besides attempting to sound reasonable and rational in defending SCE as “bipartisan”, he has this to say about the Bopp lawsuit: “It appears to me like an attempt to undermine FATCA as part of the broader Republican strategy to weaken the IRS and protect the interests of the GOP’s wealthy backers.”

  11. @Barbara

    What a bunch of reckless lunatics DA and others are. By their own admission, they’re promoting something that may not even work while at the same time undermining one that will, that is full FATCA repeal. Thanks to this misguided pursuit of SCE, we may in the end be left with nothing!

  13. @George @Bubblebustin

    Jim Black…he da man in Washington.

    As I replied to a comment at American Expatriates about DA’s impending crash and burn:

    Bonnie Preston
    CAN SOME ONE GIVE ME THE BACK STORY HERE?

    @Bonnie Preston

    It’s very simple. Democrats Abroad, as an extension of the Democratic Party, exists entirely to promote the policies of the Party and to get out the overseas Democratic vote come election time. The fact that they are now in the unenviable position of having to justify horrible laws like FATCA that were introduced by their very own party means that they could have responded in basically one of two ways:

    1. Take the high road and do the proper, moral thing by fighting tooth-and-nail against FATCA and CBT, and actually do something laudable and courageous for the expat community. While they most certainly would have been cut-loose by the mothership, they could have held their heads high and enjoyed the respect and admiration of the rest of the growing anti-FATCA civil rights movement.

    or

    2. Obsequiously capitulate to Party directives, act against their own best interests, chase ridiculous SCE unicorn droppings across the sky, eliminate all respect and goodwill by current and former members and associated overseas organizations, assure the eventual destruction of their enterprise and generally just make themselves look like the horse’s asses they have clearly become.

    Bonnie, the situation with DA is now utterly hopeless since they chose door number 2. They truly represent no one, least of all any US expat with a functioning cerebral cortex, or a conscience. Like the now-defunct Republicans Abroad, it is now high time to put this sorry excuse for an actual advocacy organization out of everyone’s collective misery.

    Is that enough back story for you, or would you like what’s left of DA’s leadership to tell you even more? Believe me, you probably don’t really want to hear it.

  18. Winston Churchill’s Parents
    Winston’s father was the British Lord Randolph Churchill, the youngest son of John, the 7th Duke of Marlborough. Lord Randolph’s ancestor John Churchill made history by winning many successful military campaigns in Europe for Queen Anne almost 200 years earlier. His mother was the American Jennie Jerome.

  21. @Charl
    Somebody should send that leprechaun article to the relevant people on tax reform in congress.

  23. @Polly
    There are relevant people working on tax reform in congress?

    @ Bubble
    There is a group representing Democrats Abroad?

    Man, I sure have been living under a rock.

  24. @Charl

    “There is a group representing Democrats Abroad?”

    No, but there is one that CLAIMS to represent Democrats Abroad. We usually refer to them as the Stepford Wives, though these days they’re more like a paranoid end-stage Howard Hughes sitting in their dirty underwear in a darkened hotel room watching a badly-scratched film copy of Ice Station Zebra over and over again. They deserve our pity, but certainly not our time or attention.

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