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Media and Blog Articles – Part 8 of 11 (Year 2021)

You can access all years at this link: Media and Blog Articles – Links for All Year

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. I’ll make a permanent list of links posted here and keep adding to it, 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.

Notes:

From JC: 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.

From Badger: On an important archival note, please use the Internet Archive Wayback machine https://archive.org/web/ (see bottom right ‘Save Page Now’ box to enter URLs of webpages you want saved for posterity, and try to save backup copies of articles and other items of interest in some other form – such as a datastick or external drive. Some important and very significant webpages and the fulltexts of articles are no longer available (although some can be retrieved if someone using the Wayback machine saved them).

Be sure to read the comment stream for this thread — there are often very recent articles mentioned since this list was updated.

2021.12.31
Americans seeking to renounce their citizenship are stuck with it for now, Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, UK.2021.12.29
Tax Court Upholds Rejection of Whistleblower Claim, Tax Notes, US.

2021.12.28
Voxbank is not allowed to ‘accidentally’ close American accounts, Alfred Airaldii, Taylor Daily Press.

2021.10.27
Now Jenny (Webster) takes her FATCA data sharing case to UK’s High Court, Helen Burggraf, AmericanExpatFinance.
2021.10.11
Biden’s Proposal to Empower I.R.S. Rattles Banks and Their Customers Kate Kelly and Adam Rappaport, New York Times, US.
2021.09.22
Want to leave your State to Reduce Taxes? Pay Attention to the Congressional Introduction of the Exit Tax Prevention Act of 2021, Tax Connections.
2021.09.08
A New, Two-Pronged Attack on US Expats? Boris Ryvkin, National Review, US.
2021.08.15
“‘Named and Shamed’–IRS Lists Record Number of Wealthy Americans Becoming Ex-Americans,” Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge.
2021.08.05
Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship, Jennifer A. Kingson, Axios.
021.05.01 (on or about)
AARO 2020 Advocacy Survey Results: Taxation and Banking, Association of Americans Resident Overseas.
2021.04,28
Under Biden Plan, The IRS Would Know A Lot More About Your Bank Accounts, Guinevere Moore, Forbes, US.
2021.03.22
CRA sending info about bank accounts to IRS that don’t have to be reported, Elizabeth Thompson, CBC News, Canada.
2021.03.02
Sending bank customer info to US avoided potentially “catastrophic effects”: Canada, Jim Bronskill (Canadian Press), CTV News, Canada.
2021.02.12
EU ‘Accidentals’ cheer, as FATCA on ECOFIN agenda next week, Helen Burggraf, American Expat Finance.
2021.01.18
Questions and Answers: Fostering the openness, strength and resilience of Europe’s economic and financial system, European Union.
2018.01.14
National Taxpayer Advocate release of 2020 Annual Report to Congress, IRS
2021.01.08
German bank to close its doors to ‘U.S. persons’ from March, citing FATCA reporting burden, American Expat Financial News Journal.
2021.11.04
Americans abroad are suffering from double taxation, but Biden can fix it, Michael Rubin, Washington Times, US.
2020.12.04
How the IRS Prioritizes Compliance Work on High Income Non-Filers Through National and International Enforcement, IRS, Tax Connections.
2020.12.02
Constitutional lawyer Joseph Arvay remembered as tireless defender of the underdog, Bethany Lindsay, CBC, Canada. (Mr. Arvay was lead counsel for the ADCS constitutional challenge of the FATCA IGA legislation at Federal Court (Trial Division), 2014-2019.
Geld aus den USA fur viele Pensionisten, ORF, Austria.
2021.12.28
Voxbank is not allowed to ‘accidentally’ close American accounts, Alfred Airaldii, Taylor Daily Press.
2021.12.31
Americans seeking to renounce their citizenship are stuck with it for now, Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, UK.

70 thoughts on “Media and Blog Articles – Part 8 of 11 (Year 2021)”

  1. I agree, Robert. The French association of accidentals have been doing an amazing job and are putting governments to shame.

  7. To be fair, what’s proposed is far, far worse that FATCA. With FATCA it’s only year-end balance and interest/dividend income. With this, it appears to be actual transaction records. I’d say it’s safe to be up in arms about this without any accusations of hypocrisy.

  8. With the Australian govt preparing to overhaul the country’s int’l tax treaty network, Let’s Fix the Australia/US Tax Treaty!–a Brisbane-based advocacy group headed up by Karen Alpert–is urging US expats in Oz to submit comments, by the Oct. 31 deadline… https://bit.ly/2Zgxt1D

  12. How on earth did this get onto Breitbart of all places? The comments are going to be an absolute delight…

  15. It’s interesting that on various forums the US tax compliance industry spend quite some time defending the US system of taxing their citizens abroad – unless they are profiting from them renouncing their citizenship in which case it’s “double taxation madness”.

  17. Would be interesting to know who Freedomhouse is affillated with . America ,always ,the Good. Russia and China,always,the evil.If life could be be so simple.

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