The Hill reports that President Obama signed a three-month highway funding extension (H.R. 3236, Pub.L. 114-41), while expressing irritation at Congress for their failure to pass a longer-term highway bill. The short-term bill passed the House on Wednesday by a vote of 385–34 and the Senate on Thursday by 91–4. Among the revenue offsets, there
Cross posted from the Renounce U.S. Citizenship blog. Introduction – The general principles of Civil Forfeiture Reexamined Civil forfeiture is becoming increasingly prevalent in the United States and in Western democracies. In it’s simplest form, Civil Forfeiture is a process where governments seize your property without going through the judicial process. Governments love it.
Good news on passport revocation: the House rejected the Senate version of H.R. 644 (Trade Facilitation & Trade Enforcement Act, a.k.a. the “customs bill”) and substituted it with their own version, which passed in a largely party-lines vote. The House version of the bill does not include Senator Orrin Hatch’s provision to deny new U.S.
To accompany his recent paper “Urgent Need for U.S. Citizens Residing Outside the U.S. to be Able to Obtain a Taxpayer Identification Number (‘TIN’) Other Than a Social Security Number” Patrick Martin has made several blog posts about the difficulties faced by U.S. citizen teenagers and adults attempting to obtain Social Security numbers from outside
Intense Focus on Foreign Accounts – Beware the Whistleblower! https://t.co/RrJxDwySuH — V. La Torre Jeker JD (@VLJeker) December 29, 2014 In addition to all the invasion of privacy we now experience directly via the NSA (phones, internet, email) and indirectly (FATCA, etc-anything with an intermediary involved), we can now count on our fellow family members, friends,
With the dearth of seriousness that pervades most of the topics we slog through, day after day. it seems a little fun is in order, especially when something unusual has been created! This post grows out of a comment being posted as a post and again, as a comment becoming a post. Would see an
Three Years of Isaac Brock! Who would have thought we’d be where we are now? A Brocker friend and I have been talking about writing down the history of Brock. Said friend believes that someday, Brock will be remembered as a major force in bringing down Citizenship-based-taxation as well as a *model* of grassroots advocacy
Jack Townsend says that civil disobedience is only really justifiable in the case that there is a possibility of jury nullification, but no jury of US citizens would find a tax evader Canadian citizen “not guilty” for shirking the US tax code. Furthermore, he says that Americans don’t admire those who do their disobedience in
The following conversation that took place at Jack Townsend’s blog. Jack Townsend is of the opinion that Canadians can’t simply choose not to obey the IRS. I am of the opinion that the IRS is a criminal organization that is violating the rights of Canadians and it is only good and proper to disobey what
The “General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2015 Revenue Proposals”, or the “Green Book” for short, has just been released (hat tip: Tax Prof Blog, of course — and it seems Just Me beat me to the story in a comment a few hours ago). It includes a proposal to “Provide for Reciprocal Reporting
