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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. Oops, my comment was intended for Polly.

    I’m with Deckard. There doesn’t appear to be a group representing Democrats Abroad.

  4. @Charl

    Good luck. I’ve contributed comments to that paper several times and they never pass moderation.

  5. @Deckard….yes, I see mine didn’t make it either and I was so very sweet! I feel for the folks of Barbados, hope they have SOME press that is free.

  7. Polly says
    August 19, 2015 at 1:24 pm
    @Charl
    Somebody should send that leprechaun article to the relevant people on tax reform in congress.

    eric_oman@finance.senate.gov,tiffany_smith@finance.senate.gov,tony_coughlan@finance.senate.gov

    Go for it I did

  11. @JC
    Ah, all great minds think alike!!!! Maybe if they hear the same thing from a million folks they will FINALLY “get it”……maybe.

    @JakDac
    Well I certainly have immediate needs……repeal RBT! Shall I contact them and tell them that? (For the 4 millionth time)????

  14. Thanks Muzzled….I’m certain that all that comment frequently start feeling like robo commentors. We just keep saying the same thing day after day, year after year…rather like a tape stuck in an eternal loop…the “canned” comments ever at the ready, inch by bloody inch. One’s brain starts to atrophy but the rage just seems to grow.

    Not much about this coming out of the US/Canadian press lately which is terrifying. If the US press was up to snuff that “Pot of Gold” article should have come from them. No one is minding the store down there as far as investigative journalism goes which does not bode well for pressuring the US legislators. Change is going to have to come from either the courts or push-back from outside the US. Self reflection is not an element found in the exceptional paradigm nor the belief in manifest destiny.

    Interesting that much is coming out of the islands these days. FATCA must be very difficult for the smallest of nations. Here is another one from Barbados: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/71128/issue-bowing-global-pressure

  15. We’re #20! U.S. Sinks Again in Cato’s Human Freedom Index

    “The U.S. is tumbling toward banana republic status. And what will our ranking be next year? The EPA is readying thousands upon thousands of pages of new regulations for the oil and gas industry, the waste disposal industry, not to mention new IRS and HHS Obamacare regs coming all the time.”

    http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/08/19/were-20-us-sinks-again-in-catos-human-freedom-index/#undefined

  18. Thanks, hearsick.

    From that article,

    The framers of the Constitution were, of course, well-versed in the British common law, having learned its essential principles from William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England. As such, they knew that the very concept of citizenship was unknown in British common law. Blackstone speaks only of “birthright subjectship” or “birthright allegiance,” never using the terms “citizen” or “citizenship.” The idea of birthright subjectship, as Blackstone admitted, was derived from feudal law. It is the relation of master and servant: All who are born within the protection of the king owed perpetual allegiance as a “debt of gratitude.” According to Blackstone, this debt is “intrinsic” and “cannot be forfeited, cancelled, or altered.” Birthright subjectship under common law is the doctrine of perpetual allegiance. America’s Founders rejected this doctrine. The Declaration of Independence, after all, solemnly proclaims that “the good People of these Colonies . . . are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.” So, the common law — the feudal doctrine of perpetual allegiance — could not possibly serve as the ground of American citizenship. Indeed, the idea is too preposterous to entertain.

  19. I think the following article–which I didn’t see mentioned in this thread (I could have missed it as I only looked through quickly) and was only lightly commented on–is worthy of some attention from Brockers:

    http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/despite-fatca-clearance-mfs-shun-investment-from-us-canada-115072201113_1.html

    Note that because of FATCA, India is not only refusing–understandably–investments from the USA. India is also refusing investments from Canada. Somehow the word has gotten out–rightly or wrongly–that Canada is just as responsible for FATCA as the USA is.

    And make no mistake: India is important. It is one of the top 10 economies in the world. If FATCA is causing Canada to be singled out for exclusion from the Indian economy, that will hurt Canada.

  21. Apart from the individual, this was a good comment that should be directed to all Canadians and our government:

    This administration is trying to bully businesses not just in this country but abroad as well. Maybe the people in foreign countries have not come to dislike Obama as in the U.S. but that is only because they don’t know how much damage he is doing to the businesses of their country.

  25. @JakDac
    Those kinds of questions are above my pay grade!!! I would imagine anyone can submit an op-ed, it probably helps to have “connections”. Lynne Swanson has done well getting articles in “The Hill”, maybe she has suggestions.

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