Media and Blog Articles Open for Comments – Part 6 of 11 (Year 2019)

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1. JC,

   If I understand your point correctly, there were already three links on the right hand side of the Brock home page (ADCS website being one link) which, when you access, disclose the 2019 status of our 2014 lawsuit (status = we await Federal Court decision from Justice MacTavish).

   To make the ADCS lawsuit status more obvious on Brock, Pacifica has now kindly changed one of the links to say explicitly: “‎Awaiting Decision on Trial (which was held on 28 Jan – 2 Feb 2019)”.

   Once we know the decision the title of the link will change and there will be a new post.

   Thanks for the suggestion.

2. I meant on here which I see now updated: http://www.adcs-adsc.ca/

3. Some perspective on FATCA and repeal of FATCA legislation from Jim Jatras.

   He once said that a $1 million lobbying effort was all that was needed to knock it. It appears at one point that the deVere Group hired him to help bring it down.

   #fatca could never be good. It has nothing to do with taxes. It’s a pure private info dragnet without cause. Domestic parallel would be if we had to report all asset value to IRS not just declare income. That’s aside from implementation costs that dwarf revenues “recovered.”

   https://twitter.com/JimJatras/status/1143910342868766720

   Respectfully, that kind of expat tunnel vision is part of why you’ll have #Fatca forever. You can’t say “Wholesale violation of privacy is fine as a general principle, just make a fix that helps ME.”https://twitter.com/JimJatras/status/1143920888896774144

   Sad that we missed our chance to #repealfatca in 2017 …
   https://twitter.com/JimJatras/status/1143147120565936129

   Ain’t gonna happen. Almost got it over the top in Dec 2017. A pity. Some help might’ve made difference. But people had other priorities: silly litigation, TTFI. Window is gone. Too bad. Notice that Sen Paul & Rep Meadows haven’t even introduced in this Congress.
   https://twitter.com/JimJatras/status/1143899939333902338

4. TTFI proposals, “social medias,” and all the lawyer-CPA shows, etc…has the window gone for 2019 for TTFI? It’s been another year, and it appears that there was no real substantial progress/traction other than rhetoric, town hall meetings, and/or academic /socratic discussions with professors who are living in a fantasy land.

5. Good morning all. I don’t know where to post this comment so perhaps the Admin folks can move it to wherever they think best.

   Censorship of speech is growing rapidly on Internet Social Media Platforms like Facebook, Twitter and many Media Houses who restrict comment on their articles. A new day seems to be dawning. There is now GAB and a brand new Browser called Dissenter which enable free speech (so long as the speech is legal as contemplated by the US Constitution) and comments on any URL content on the Internet. Some like Apple are apparently blocking these new tools from their App Stores. I suggest that you use the DuckDuckGo search engine and search for Dissenter or just navigate to https://dissenter.com/ Perhaps there should be a FATCA related thread going on there.

   Just sayin’

6. @ nervousinvestor
   I’ve most definitely noticed “the new day” in internet censorship. I’ve been using alternatives to Google for years but I’m happy to hear about Dissenter too. Quite a few of my regularly visited websites have gone dark over the past few years (not all by censorship, informative people do pass away unfortunately) so I feel an urgency to learn all I can, while I can. However it’s creepy to think that while I search, “they” are able to follow my trail and I’m sure there’s a red flag on my file but I just can’t curb my curiosity or mould my opinions into an ever changing standard of what is politically correct.

7. Check out https://news.yahoo.com/why-duchess-sussex-could-barred-162303613.html

8. I don’t suppose the Duchess of Sussex has to worry about her tax bill. 🙂

   It is just an excuse for getting another mention of J*hns*n’s name in the press, in the lead-up to the Tory leadership election.

9. http://www.citizenshipsolutions.ca/2019/06/30/breaking-down-the-revenue-rule-new-us-japan-tax-treaty-enhances-ability-of-us-to-enforce-taxation-on-americansabroad-in-japan

   Somewhat disturbing if this goes through, not only would collection assistance be possible against US citizens in Japan without Japanese citizenship (which would be most if not all of them) but also Japanese citizens in cases where an individual “(i) has filed a fraudulent tax return or a fraudulent claim for refund; (ii) has willfully failed to file a tax return to evade taxes”. A bad precedent, if set.

   If Japan T were still kicking around there would be pages filled with lamentations and gnashing of teeth and I -told-you-so…

10. EmBee

    Nice to chat with you again after all this time.

    No sooner than I had switched to the browser “Brave” which also suppresses by default intrusive ads and trackers but I found this one Dissenter which seems to be developed by the folks at GAB with others no doubt. I like that Dissenter also allows you to create a comment thread on ANY web page. Of course this is new and will take time to build its following (posts need readers if they are to have value) but …. if the choice is censorship on Twitter and Media pages then this will be the preferred option I think. Dissenter seems built to work well with other Free Speech sites like GAB, Bitchute, Epik Domains and so on.

11. Phyllis Henderson.

    Not sure of the thread and you may be commenting keyboard in cheek but for me as a reader stumbling across your comment, I immediately need to clarify as is my habit that in my view the TAXATION element resulting from #FATCA exposing people to their “owners” who ruthlessly impose #CBT upon them … is not the MAIN problem … I see the brutally enforced abandonment of privacy world wide as a far greater problem and indeed an actual threat to lives as well as the imposition of massive compliance costs (measured in Trillions of dollars and growing) upon every last person on earth living outside the “uncontacted” indigenous tribes of the Amazon basin.

    Just me.

12. Phyllis Henderson

    I just read the link provided by Tom Alciere. I get the context of your comment now. Surprisingly though the Yahoo linked Telegraph report is one of the more accurate of such reports that I have seen over the years. Not 100% perhaps but not bad at all. Whether or not one like Boris Johnson.

13. nervousinvestor – the Telegraph story was speculating about supposed consequences of the Duchess renouncing her citizenship for tax purposes – which I predict is unlikely to happen.

14. Phyllis Henderson

    I do understand that. It is one of the biggest errors that media makes. Thinking that this is just about tax. They just dont understand the major danger. In My Humble Opinion.

15. nervousinvestor – I agree.

16. When this site was first created I watched the “page view” counter tick upwards from zero – as I recollect there were about 600.000 page views on the old site before this one was born. I visit less frequently these days – many months can pass without a look in – but I look at the “page view” counter and see that it is now almost 42 MILLION. These matters – FATCA, CBT etc, actually ARE Matters that affect people’s lives and have the potential to utterly destroy the quality of life and the ability for Ordinary People to plan their lives responsibly (Fat Cats can take care of themselves). To my way of thinking CBT, CRS and FATCA are so very wrong. I hope that the Court in Vancouver will this month rule fairly and justly and not merely for the expedience of allowing the Federal Government to remain rolled over on its back exposing its gonads to a bully.

17. Quote for the Day
    Daniel Kuettel wrote @ Twitter:

    “It is easier to illegally immigrate to America, than to legally emigrate from America. One would think that America would restrict the first rather than harming the later with #fatca #cbtax”

    Hope for the Day
    That a favourable ruling from Justice Anne Mactavish on our ADCS lawsuit is issued very soon.

18. July 2019 International Tax Update #FATCA #TFFAAA

    Global Advocate for the American Overseas and Tax Attorney John Richardson join Anthony E. Parent to discuss the following important updates for any US expat concerned about tax compliance, tax reform, The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), and the proposed Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad Act (TFFAAA)

19. Part 1 — Americans abroad: a case study of the dumbing down of U.S. policymakers
    Gregory Swanson July 14

    Please Retweet/Like on Twitter:
    https://twitter.com/PurpleExpatOrg/status/1150222302958751744

20. Just finished watching the Anthony Parent/Keith Redmond/John Richardson conversation and SO appreciate the powerful words of all three. I am beyond delighted that the French case was heard in court on July 5 and the judgment is expected at the end of THIS month. What the HECK is wrong with Canada that it cannot produce a judgment in a comparable length of time?!

    I am particularly grateful for the final exchange of the conversation when a clear call for single-mindedness with regard to this taxation issue on the part of all US “overseas” organizations and individuals. We have GOT to get this fixed before there can be any concern about other issues. I was also THRILLED that those who have no choice but to hide their identity as Americans from their governments and from their banks were specifically included in the group of those who have been wronged by US extra-territorial tax policy. My profound thanks for your advocacy, gentlemen!

21. Excellent comments were made by all three.
    Observations:
    1) they seem to be heading for what has mentionned here numerous times and that is – IF YOU ENTER THE US TAX SYSTEM ,YOU WILL BE PUNISHED and will not be punished if you don’t.

    2) Redmond’ s remarks about the success of french accidentals vis a vis the US citzens abroad organizations saying that the key to their success was staying focussed and away from homeland issues. Problem here is that the US citzen abroad organizations are run by homelanders abroad whereas the french accidentals are not .

    3)Regarding the date that the french will hand down its decision by July’ s end, can it be that our dear canadian judge is awaiting their decision before handing down her own?

22. BREAKING: Monte Silver counters IRS ‘dismiss’ motion in U.S. Court

    July 16, 2019
    By Helen Burggraf

    https://americanexpatfinance.com/news/item/211-monte-silver-counters-irs-dismiss-motion-in-u-s-court

23. Kentucky Skirmish: Mitch McConnell Irks Rand Paul With Push on Tax Treaties

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/kentucky-skirmish-mitch-mcconnell-irks-rand-paul-with-push-on-tax-treaties-11563300338

24. Tweet from Solomon Yue:
    In 2016, I served on the Republican National Convention Standing Rules Committee. Jim Bopp served on the Republican National Convention Platform Committee & got overseas issues in the GOP platform. In 2020, I plan to serve on the Republican National Convention Platform Committee.

    https://twitter.com/SolomonYue/status/1151363449877700608

25. posted by Carmelan Polce | Taxation Task Force Chair
    July 16, 2019
    Mid-summer is by no means the most dynamic time of the year on Capitol Hill but we are expecting a few interesting things to happen for Americans abroad in the time between the end of Congress’s Fourth of July recess and its August recess.
    Legislation
    Americans Abroad Caucus co-chair Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY12) is expected to re-introduce the two bills of interest to Americans abroad:
    • Commission on Americans Living Abroad Act, which would form a standing commission to review laws that have adverse impacts for Americans abroad and to prevent new laws from being enacted that inadvertently harm non-resident Americans; and
    • Overseas Americans Financial Access Act, which exempts from all FATCA reporting the accounts of Americans abroad in the countries where they live.

    [The first I heard about five years ago. Moving forward would be a plus. The 2nd was mentioned by Maloney in 2017. Nothing since. Many overseas don’t see same country exception for FATCA as a help as it would introduce more IF THENs for banks = more paperwork. For individuals it could mean no 8938 forms]
    https://www.democratsabroad.org/carmelan/mid-summer_expat_tax_reform_updates?recruiter_id=1448
    https://twitter.com/Carmelan/status/1151118014114344961

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