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Media and Blog Articles Open for Comments – Part 3 of 11 (Year 2016)

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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” of FATCA/CBT articles.  [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 aren’t on this list yet.

2016.12.29
Switzerland moves further to end bank secrecy, Financial Times, UK.
2016.12.23
How FATCA Infringes and Trammels our Statehood, Stephen Kangal, Trinidad and Tobago News, Trinidad and Tobago.
Barclay’s chief preparing to take a stand against US regulators over unduly high fines to European banks, James Quinn, The Telegraph, UK.
2016.12.22
Canada refuses to name bank that broke money laundering rules 1225 timtes, Mike De Souze, Robert Cribb & Marco Oved, National Observer.
Financial Intelligence agency gave bankers head up about money laundering disclosure, Mike De Souza, Robert  Cribb & Marco Oved, National Observer.
2016.12.21
US citizens may pay double tax on Kahlon’s child savings program, Michael Zeff, Jerusalem Post, Israel.
Applying to be Swiss in the Trump Era, Steve Krump,  SwissInfo, Switzerland.
2016.12.20
File That Tax, Boom Chicago, YouTube, Netherlands.
Tijuana City Councilman Faces US Money Laundering Charges, Sandra Dibble and Dana Littlefield, San Diego Union, US.
2016.12.19
Senate Report Finds IRS Agents Living Large on Public’s Dime, Guillermo Jiminez, Tax Revolution Institute, US.
AG to UNC: Come to Parliament first – a Joint Select Committee to deal with FATCA . . ., Ria Taitt, Daily Express, Trinidad.
Rand Paul criticizes framework of tax reform plan, Naomi Jagoda, The Hill, US.

Articles from earlier 2016 are at this link

Articles from 2015 are at this link

Articles from 2014 are at this link

Media and Blog Articles  thread, Part 1 of 3, is at this link.

Media and Blog Articles thread, Part 2 of 3 is at this link.

 

2,818 thoughts on “Media and Blog Articles Open for Comments – Part 3 of 11 (Year 2016)”

  3. So this makes me think. We could have some kind of award made for a set of US congressmen etc who we think have contributed to a lot of pain for expats and immigrants. Those pushing FATCA, sec 877A etc etc.
    You know like ‘Isaac Brock society recognizes you for your none-stop efforts to make the lives of US expats and successful immigrants a living hell’. All kind of nice and shinny etc. Can’t be expensive to have that done. Then mail them to them.

    http://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/politics-on-the-hudson/2016/10/14/schumer-received-four-gifts-foreign-officials-between-2012-2015/92060694/

  10. China’s foreign currency shares plunged the most since January in late trading, sending traders scrambling for reasons to explain the sudden volatility in a largely moribund market.
    [..]
    “There is market speculation that B shares can no longer be used as a tool to hedge against the yuan,” said Jackson Wong, associate director at Huarong International Securities Ltd. in Hong Kong.

    The State Administration of Taxation last week published rules requiring banks to perform due diligence on non-resident financial accounts from 2017.

    “We saw some unknown institutions’ heavy selling around 2 p.m.,” said William Wong, Hong Kong-based head of sales trading at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Ltd. “It is very likely that some overseas investors want to move money out” after the new rules.

    According to the report it’s not clear that there’s a connection between the sudden volatility and the new due diligence rules. Just one possible factor being speculated about.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/china-b-shares-plunge-most-in-nine-months-as-kama-falls-by-limit

  11. Sunny boy Trudeau will have his minions fight tooth and nail for Canadian softwood lumber (but under his orders – and contrary to FIbbin Lib protestations pre-election; ordinary Canadians with local legal Canadian savings who have any US taint will still be denied justice – and our local tax revenues continue to be abused in order to uphold the law of a foreign country – as ‘our’ Prime Minister continues to defend the extraterritorial US law FATCA – empowering our CRA arm of the IRS in oppressing law-abiding Canadians living, working, and saving on our own sovereign soil.

    Softwood lumber apparently has more rights than we do, and Chrystia Freeland will make sure that the lumber industries rights are protected – even up to the WTO:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/canada-prepared-for-wto-fight-on-softwood-lumber-freeland-says/article32399508/
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/quebec+hires+exambassador+united+states+help+softwood+lumber+dispute/12294911/story.html

    Not to be outdone, the CONs organize themselves into a ‘task force’ to make sure that the rights of Canadian wood is respected by the Liberals (but still don’t give a damn for the constitutional and Charter rights of Canadian citizens and residents trampled under their FATCA IGA).
    See;
    “………. a task force the Conservative opposition has formed “to hold the Liberal government to account for solving the softwood lumber trade dispute with the United States.”

    “We are a group of MPs who are tired of the Liberal government mismanaging this very important file,” Doherty said in a statement issued Monday.

    “We will make sure the Liberals don’t forget about the workers and communities affected by their trade war.

    “We will talk to companies, workers and community leaders from coast to coast to coast, bring them together, and see if we can chart a path forward to solve this problem.”…….
    http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/local-news/doherty-zimmer-named-to-conservatives-softwood-lumber-task-force-1.2366898

    Shakes and shingles have more protection than we do.

  13. Another opportunity to raise the hypocrisy inherent in Trudeau’s assistance with and defence of (at Canadian taxpayer expense) the predatory extraterritorial US claims on the legal, local savings, and financial and private data belonging to Canadian individuals and families are of no concern to the Canadian govenment, whereas Trudeau (and the previous Cons of Harper) are willing to sink years and billions into fighting for the rights of Canadian lumber:

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/the-softwood-lumber-war-is-back-so-prepare-for-a-long-fight/article32422514/
    ” ……… This lumber mess could eventually turn out to be Mr. Trudeau’s worst nightmare. Not only does it have the potential to aggravate further federal-provincial relations, but it could also poison bilateral relations with whoever occupies the White House in late January. More important, this dispute could very easily drag on for several years and create all kinds of headaches for the federal Liberals in the 2019 election campaign.”

    Apparently the US FATCA extortion of Canadian families and Canadian financial sector and the abrogation of our Charter and civil rights isn’t enough to get the Trudeau government to assist the Canadian citizens and residents he swore to serve, but the lumber trade is.

  17. @ badger
    I don’t twitter but if I could I’d counter the sappy Canada hearts the USA pap with … America is NOT great when it extends its graspy IRS fingers across the border – REPEAL #FATCA

  18. [sigh] … Wish we had a Brock tweet team that could swoop in when this sort of thing is trending on Twitter. That CBC article, those tweets … makes me think Canadians have absorbed way too much American propaganda.

  19. @Embee, even before I found out about the abusive regime of US extraterritorial CBT, FBAR and FATCA, I really couldn’t stand that kind of fawning. The uncritical US imperial outsized national ego doesn’t need feeding. It needs thoughtful objective criticism and evaluation, and frank talk to try and rein in the abuses of power it indulges itself in by way of wielding its power in the world, and challenge the myopic who see the US as the center of the universe by some kind of divine right – if they see the rest of the world at all.

    And I can’t stand the uncritical Canadian national myth making machine either. While some of our sappy uncritical fellow Canadians are tweeting to make themselves and the US feel good, they are usefully distracted from considering events like this that don’t jive with their preferred image of themselves as polite and nicey nicey global citizens;
    ‘Canadian firm faces new forced labour claims over Eritrean mine’ “Dozens of Eritreans are to join a groundbreaking civil action in Canada as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Nevsun Resources, which majority-owns the Bisha mine in north-west Eritrea, following a ruling last week………….”
    https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/oct/14/canadian-firm-nevsun-resources-new-forced-labour-claims-eritrea-bisha-mine

    The true patriotic citizen is not an uncritical fawning one.

  20. @ badger
    Hear! Here! Get that down to 140 characters and you have a tweet which I wish someone would pass along at #tellamericaitsgreat.

    Canadian mining company travesties are legion throughout the world … Honduras, Mexico, Haiti, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea, Congo and so on. It’s shameful.

  24. @ Barbara
    Fascinating find. George Yates made a terrific opening statement which rightly so focused on FATCA and CBT. Joe Smallhoover essentially justified FATCA by bringing in the fatcats-terrorists- cheaters trope.

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