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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)”

  2. The article Tom lists just above is the typical: “Americans renouncing and THEN leaving the USA in order to avoid taxes” nonsense. And the author removed my comments pointing out his fallacies.

  5. From the article Tom lists:

    “The fact is, it is very difficult to denounce your citizenship….”

    So those “Go denounce yourself” comments from homelanders aren’t a put-on????”

  6. @Shovel: Surprisingly many of my old college classmates (mostly Bernie Sanders Moonies) tell me on Facebook to “Just denounce”. To which I smugly reply: “I denounce my citizenship fifty times a day and always for free, but to REnounce my US citizenship is complicated and expensive.”

  10. I saw an article Facebook about Snowbirds being tracked when they leave and enter Canada so that they might lose Canadian benefits. It mentions that they might actually benefit if they lose their “tax residency” in Canada. Where can I find an article about the hazards of Snowbirds becoming “US Persons” that I can post as a comment?

  11. You will find some relevant comment here, Queenston: http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/rrsps-rdsps-resps-tfsas/

    Snowbirds

    New Streamlined Program:  Part 1 – The Canadian Snowbird Dilemma

    http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/11/22/kiwiv-and-royberg1-explains-how-cdn-snowbirds-can-be-subject-to-cdn-departure-tax-and-irs-taxes-fbar-and-fatca/

    http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/04/07/canadian-snowbirds-dont-be-sitting-ducks-for-the-irs/

     http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2011/12/29/fatca-it-will-adversely-affect-snowbird-and-other-canadian-investment-in-florida-arizona-and-other-usa-winter-retreats/

    How Canadian Snowbirds can be Subject to Canadian Departure Tax and IRS taxes, FBAR and FATCA

    Another Chapter in the Canadian Snowbird Saga

    National Post Offers Some Good Sense Advice to Snowbirds

    Canadian Snowbirds Could Face US Tax Servitude

  12. Do they get what you are rightly telling them, Barbara? That’s what my comment was about as well.

    I can’t renounce on behalf of my son, but I sure do DENOUNCE all that is US CBT and the Conservative buy-in that all in Canada are *US citizens who happen to reside in Canada* — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANqVaEpRi_4. I hope the Canadian Liberal government gets it and will uphold our new Prime Minister’s statement that *A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian*.

  15. @Tom
    The below the line comment about the woman in France was so sad.
    @Neill
    Well, he didn’t call it “Your typical U.S. taxpayer with foreign accounts”.

  16. I dusted off my old “To ANYONE …” comment for OneNewsNow. Thought I’d add a green (as in green card) splash to the red/white/blue paint mix there. It still ruffles my fur when I see those “good riddance” blotches in the comment sections. I wonder how long the moderators will hold the flow on my little green splash?

  18. so after reading through roy’s 30some pages it appears to me that even he admits in his paper that fatca/cln’s/loss of citizenship for nationality/retention of citizenship for tax reasons is a complete and utter muddled mess.

    if I did not know better from other writings of his he was almost seeming sympathic to our plight in this paper…..weird……

  19. “if I did not know better from other writings of his he was almost seeming sympathic to our plight in this paper…..weird…”

    It’s part of the grooming process.

  22. @Bubblebustin It’s part of the grooming process.

    I think you are 100% correct in this statement.

    knowing what I now know I can see how compliance condor’s can strike fear into people who are just having their “OMG” moments

    I am forever thank full that my mom directed me here to IBS and to all the posters over the years who have helped me form my plan in dealing with this.

    not sure if anyone has been paying attention to the number on the bottom of this page but it is getting closer to 19,000,000.

    I remember thinking to my self when it rolled from 4,999,999 to 5,000,000 when I was first introduced to IBS “hmmmm this really is going to be a big deal” 🙂

  24. Extend this type of scam to what could similarly happen to *US Persons* in Canada and around the world:

    http://newsroom.calgary.ca/news/police-warn-public-of-aggressive-scam

    Police warn public of aggressive scam | The City of Calgary Newsroom
    newsroom.calgary.ca

    The Calgary Police Service is warning Calgarians of an increasingly aggressive scam, where scammers purport to be with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and the Calgary Police Service. At approximately 11 a.m., on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, a male victim…

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