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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. 2terrified2sleep,

    Just think how much money they would save themselves in audits and all the other absurdities of FATCA for the minnows affected. Just give us a real amnesty and call it a day so we can get on with our lives. Swallow the U.S. PRIDE or FALSE U.S. PRIDE:

  11. Understanding the Accidental American: Tina’s Story

    Professor Allison Christians’ interview with taxanalysts after her visit to Washington:

    “Allison Christians is the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law at McGill University in Montreal, where she writes and teaches in the area of national and international tax law and policy. You can follow her on the Tax, Society & Culture blog at taxpol.blogspot.com or on Twitter (@taxpolblog). She delivered the following speech at the International Conference on Taxpayer Rights in Washington on November 18.”

    http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Features/4B25BA71D312B2D285257F1500682E46?OpenDocument

  15. @Deckard1138,

    I find the protection from prosecution they afford to people who make mistakes with this worrying.

  19. @Polly,

    I was never outside the US when they took a load of my money. CBT is just something you guys think will solve all your problems if it went away when in fact it’s only a big bit of the problem.

  21. @JC

    Time to come out of the closet. I just signed that petition and left a comment.

    Barack Obama is personally welcome to drive across the border to my house and bite me.

  22. There are many other *Accidental Ameraicans*, though not readily identifiable by country of birth. who are still with Accidental American Citizenship by definition. Many, many born abroad to US Parents but who have never lived in the US or had any benefit from the US, their *acquired US citizenship* without consent and totally non-meaningful, don’t fit the parameters for this petition. Those like my son, lacking *requisite mental capacity* to be able to renounce (for any amount of $$$) and a parent, a guardian or a trustee unable to act on their behalf, even with a court order, don’t fit into this petition. I can (and did) sign for the many born in the US who are caught up in this, but not on behalf of the many others, including my son.

  23. @Tom Alciere

    re: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/What-is-America—s-real-objective-with-FATCA_44967

    Just left this comment at the Jamaica Observer – hope it survives moderation:

    This is all excellent information, but where is the outrage at America’s utterly immoral and indefensible practice of citizenship-based taxation (CBT), which provides the foundation for FATCA and FBAR? Only the nearly-failed states of Eritrea and the United States practice this insidious form of taxation while the rest of the world practices the infinitely fairer and more logical residence-based taxation (RBT).

    It is time for the CBT-free world to stand together and fight this injustice. The only thing that is holding everyone back is the unreasonable fear of US sanctions, an empty threat backed by nothing more substantial than the fragile standing of the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency. When that dominance recedes – and it will – then the US will begin to pay dearly for squandering its remaining goodwill around the world and for creating completely unjustified havoc and human misery via FATCA and FBAR. The first financial World War, begun by the US, will end in abject failure.

  24. @ JC,
    Thanks for the Amnesty for Accidental Americans Now! petition link.
    I added it to “Surveys & Petitions” under “Take Action!” in the Sidebar.

  25. @Neill
    Somehow you confuse me. Are you talking about the brits coming after your money or the americans here?Because as a US resident, the brits dont tax you.

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