A law which is unjust does not seem to me to be a law. St. Augustine, On Free Choice Of The Will 1.5 Once a free person determines that a law is unjust, it is not wrong, if he or she disobeys that law. I consider the FBAR law unjust, especially in its application to US
The amount of money that a person has in a bank account is irrelevant to determining tax liability. In order to assess income taxes, the IRS needs only an accounting of the interest, dividends or capital gains that a person has earned as income. Therefore, the filing requirements of FBAR, FATCA and 8938 are unrelated
Interesting Council Of Foreign Relations article on extradition and various alternatives. Note the difference between "covered offenses" and "dual criminality". https://t.co/glOxu13Fm3 pic.twitter.com/bdiVMW7BJB — U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) May 29, 2020 Part 6 of this series of posts discussing extradition treaties ended with “Big picture view: Leaving aside the legal technicalities and the nattering over matters
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Interesting consolidation of tweets discussing a possible move to #TTF for all the different groups of people classified as #Americansabroad https://t.co/M1dwgx1Sge — U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) May 13, 2018 This post is motivated by the following Brock comment from “JC”. His comment concludes with: So do we have a feature here on Brock to come
This is a continuation of the post “Part 9: Responding to the Sec. 965 “transition tax”: From the “Pax Americana” to the “Tax Americana” cross-posted from citizenshipsolutions by John Richardson The first portion of the post was published
Given the trend of governments requiring their citizens and residents to report nearly everything (even Russia has now begun to require duals to register their 2nd citizenship), it’s amazing no one has come forth with a requirement to file a SpouseBar. Think of the normal approach the U.S. takes to anything foreign. “Alien.” Most countries
cross-posted from ADCSovereignty blog Photo highlights from Day 1 of the @OttawaForum. Tune in for Day 2 here: https://t.co/0CvbgvgH64 #Can2020 pic.twitter.com/PuMUfsPlEg — Canada 2020 (@Canada2020) January 29, 2016 On January 28, 29/16 I attended the Canada 2020 “Building A Foreign Policy For Canada’s Future” forum. It was enormously interesting (apparently you will be able
cross-posted from ADCSovereignty WordPress Blog This is a post that I began to write on August 20, 2015. The post was in response to the death of Dr. Marcio Pinheiro. Trish Moon wrote a tribute to Dr. Pinheiro at the Isaacbrocksociety. I urge you to read both the post and the comments to that post.
On my post of November 11, 2015 I asked the question: Why do Homelanders believe it is okay to impose taxation on Americans abroad (meaning people who reside in other nations and on income earned in other nations). I believe that there is little chance of achieving RBT without understanding the “Homelander World View”. The
[This is from the September 14 2015 Tax Blog on www.taxconnections.com] “How To Live Outside The United States In An FBAR And FATCA World” by John Richardson “When in Rome, live as a Homelander” does, when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. Introduction: Americans abroad are constantly told that they should “come clean”. They should
