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.
@The Mom
A bitter bitter truth….and such propaganda! This kind of hate-filled information has been spread in the media to incense homelanders and to have a scapegoat so the government itself isn’t attacked for incompetence.
TaxConnections cares (so we are told).
Well, chew on what homelander Michael DeBlis says in his recent blog about gifts:
“Politically, expats are something like the also-ran candidates in those pre-debate GOP Presidential candidate forums: almost everyone acknowledges their contributions, but almost no one would be terribly upset if they just went away.”
http://www.taxconnections.com/taxblog/what-a-thoughtful-gift-mike-deblis/?inf_contact_key=edc7b3a3cd1a2933349a8053196bf289cb72ea9601d765c842fa6f167b209378#.VjhhuvaFOP1
@ALL PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
Post a question at the Maddow site. This is such a golden opportunity and there are few questions on the CBT/FUCTA issue posted. (This is not a FB based site. Anyone can post a question.)
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rachel-maddow-on-submitting-forum-questions-557433923632?cid=sm_fb_maddow
Charl, On that.
@All re: posting questions for the Democratic candidate forum that Char has provided the link to, note that you can LIKE questions. I suggest we all LIKE the FATCA/CBT questions posted so far.
Just a heads up, I noticed that if you post a comment, and are not quick about it, you end up posting on the wrong forum. Perhaps formulate your comment in an email, word or whatever, then copy and paste it.
The Escalation of Offshore Penalties Over the Last 20 Years
Regarding posting questions at the Maddow site. Discovered that if you pause the video before making your comment, you won’t accidentally end up posting it on the wrong forum when the next video starts (in case you are slow like me).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/11/03/u-s-ranks-as-top-tax-haven-refusing-to-share-tax-data-despite-fatca/?utm_source=followingimmediate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20151103
Charl,
How can I register on the Rachel Maddow site to “like” a comment without giving MSNBC my email and Facebook contacts?
@Queenston
Open an email account for commenting purposes only. Many sites require an email addy. Heck, I’ve become rather like Sybil….(unfortunately I was never married to Paul Newman).
Simplistic article but worthy of commenting on publication.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/03/a-record-number-of-americans-are-renouncing-their-citizenship-whats-going-on-here/?postshare=7721446559479698
For what it’s worth: the old idea of private tax collectors working for the IRS. NOT good. But then again, what are the chances of these creeps (the private collectors) going abroad? I don’t think they’d be well received in most countries…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-gop-debt-irs_5633c3dde4b00aa54a4e24be
@Fred
That’s a frightening prospect. I also worry about people volunteering their time “for the public good”.
@Charl
That WaPo author would almost get it if she didn’t have such a US-centric view of the world. My letter to her:
Dear Ms Ross,
As well researched as it is, your article could benefit from more research, specifically from talking to some of the people actually renouncing or contemplating renouncing US citizenship. Most of the people renouncing are long term expats living in Canada, Switzerland and the U.K. People aren’t fleeing the US en masse. I am a US citizen who’s lived in Canada since I was 12, and am now after 47 years face having to renounce US citizenship because of US laws that have no place in the post Civil War era. Americans abroad are only becoming aware of how the US government is the greatest threat to their ability to actually thrive while living outside the US. We pay taxes where we live for services where we live. There is no reason why we should have to pay the higher of two tax systems and receive the lesser of two tax system’s deductions just because we are “US Persons”, while at the same time being treated like criminals by the IRS and Treasury Department because we live in foreign jurisdictions.
Please feel free to contact me should you like to talk to someone who’s affected by all of this.
@Bubbles….did you roll your eyes over “There are some Americans who, for what appear to be non-political but more likely financial reasons, really do disconnect from their home country.”
Its NOT their home country!!!!!!
That would be like going to recently naturalised Amerricans from lets say Hati, Cambodia and Iran…..and asking them if they are going to go home?
She does not realise it but her comment is downright racist.
@George
Like I said, “US-centric”.
Interesting article in a different vein but with a conclusion that sounds all too familiar:
“The appellate court decision means that American citizens have no means available to hold the government accountable for violating their constitutional rights, simply because the United States conveniently denied those rights in another country of its choosing.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/opinion/how-the-fbi-can-detain-render-and-threaten-without-risk.html?_r=0
A number of Brockers have been submitting suggestions to questions to ask Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley in the Democratic candidates forum to be moderated by Rachel Maddow. The more, the merrier, and if the numbers of FATCA/CBT related questions are high enough, maybe Rachel will ask one. Just a reminder that she is looking for questions, not comments, so be sure to actually ask a question! I noticed some are just leaving comments about how awful FATCA is, but not asking a question.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rachel-maddow-on-submitting-forum-questions-557433923632?cid=sm_fb_maddow
Wanted people to see this:
Saturday, October 31, 2015
‘New Case Filing Challenging Streamlined Transition Disparity with Streamlined (10/31/15)
In Maze v. United States (D DC Dkt. No. 1:15-cv-01806) (complaint here), three citizens who are in OVDP complain about the disparate treatment afforded them under the Streamlined Transition requirements as compared to the better treatment afforded other citizens who delayed joining OVDP until the new Streamlined rules were announced in June 2014.’………
http://federaltaxcrimes.blogspot.ca/2015/10/new-case-filing-challenging-streamlined.html
FT is running a commentary called “Myth of the French stampede for the exit”. One commenter, BelCan, wrote:
“Well, at least France is not like the US, which makes life difficult for its citizens who decide to live abroad, treating middle class ones as tax cheat suspects, while rich Americans in the US still pay little tax despite such measures supposedly being instituted to go after Americans residing in the US who have offshore accounts. ”
If you have an FT account, please consider writing a suitable comment.
Other Views: American tax refugees
http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2015-11-03/other-views-american-tax-refugees#.VjoH1Oml1z8
set the record straight. Contact DN!
http://www.democracynow.org/contact
regarding this piece:
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/3/as_us_becomes_a_top_tax
FATCA Critics Fears Arrest by US Authorities
http://www.iexpats.com/fatca-critics-fears-arrest-by-us-authorities/
Sounds as though the IRS’s own Taxpayer’s Advocate needs an advocate – or perhaps it’s own lawyer:
“Ms. Olson says the IRS mistreatment of the TAS office has risen to the level of lawbreaking:
Olson also protested that the IRS is refusing to grant her and her staff access to taxpayers’ administrative files unless they sign agreements barring them from sharing any of the files’ information, even with the taxpayer. Olson noted that she is bound by the same privacy laws as other IRS employees and said she is entitled to access under section 6103.
“My position is that the IRS in those instances has violated the law,” Olson said. “And I do not say that lightly.””
http://rothcpa.com/2015/11/tax-roundup-11415-taxpayer-advocate-koskinen-demoralizes-irs-irs-breaks-law-koskinen-replies-give-me-more-money/
Thanks, Tom Alciere. Way old news, but historical reading for those who weren’t around here in 2012.