You live abroad, and you’ve done a careful job of saving your money for retirement. But American Homelanders have little savings. Only 25% of them have more than $10,000 saved. Perhaps that’s why the fraudulent aggregate FBAR limit remains $10,000–it’s more money than 75% of Americans have in savings. What is more, their
I wrote this introduction for a program to be presented to tax professionals outside of North America back in March 2017. It was only meant as a general guide for those who might have been completely unaware of our grassroots movement as well as several attempts made by Congress to study our situation. It was
ACA confers Eugene Abrams Citizenship Award for 2017 on Jackie Bugnion THE EUGENE ABRAMS CITIZENSHIP AWARD 2017 WINNER excerpts from the ACA site: American Citizens Abroad, Inc. (ACA, Inc.) is proud to confer its Eugene Abrams Award for 2017 on Jackie Bugnion. The Abrams Award, named for Eugene B. Abrams, ACA Executive Director
UPDATE SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2016 REINCE PRIEBUS CHOSEN TO BE PE TRUMP’S CHIEF OF STAFF EXCERPTS: WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Sunday chose Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and a loyal campaign adviser, to be his White House chief of staff, turning to a Washington insider whose friendship with
Posts on The Isaac Brock Society website concerning FATCA and Brazil For articles on other websites, see Media and Blog Articles For general discussion of FATCA, see FATCA Discussion Thread September 2016 09: So, what’s going on with the Brazil-U.S. Social Security totalization agreement? January 2015 03: Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
As we’ve discussed previously, U.S. persons who live in countries which do not have totalization agreements with the U.S. face double Social Security taxation if they are self-employed or work for branches (rather than subsidiaries) of U.S. companies. This is because the 26 USC § 901 foreign tax credit applies only to income taxes under
(11) Cynical derision of Homelanders is healthy. At Isaac Brock Society, we have always been not a little irreverent when it comes to discussing the USA’s international tax invasion. Eventually when we meet real Homelanders online or in person, we realize that they suffer from a type of sociopathy that we do well to criticize,
What concessions does your country make, (as a Treaty Partner of the United States of America), that causes your life to be miserable? What Canada Allows by Signing the 'Savings Clause' in the US-CDN Tax Treaty https://t.co/k4bOjkmavK You have to read it to believe it! — U.S. Expat Canada (@USExpatCanada) May 28, 2016
Juggernaut: “any terrible force, esp one that destroys or that demands complete self-sacrifice ” (dictionary.com) Three years ago I came to the conclusion that it was irrational to believe that the USA was going to change for the better on expat issues. Roger Conklin had recounted that a congressman lost re-election on account of his
Video Presentations and Submissions Understanding the Accidental American: Tina’s Story Presentation by Prof. Allison Christians (Chair, Tax Law Dept. McGill University) to the International Conference on Taxpayer Rights, Washington, DC, US. 2015.11.18. Lynne Swanson’s Statement to House of Commons Finance Committee, Canada 2015.05 How Citizenship-based Taxation is Destroying Lives of Middle-class Americans Living Outside the
