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  6. It’s not a FATCA/CBT survey, but one of the Brockers, Victoria, who is doing her Masters in International Migration, posted on another thread that she is doing a Survey on Native English Speakers Residing in Japan.

    Victoria Ferauge says
    July 7, 2016 at 5:04 am
    http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2016/07/06/republicans-overseas-july-5-2016-appeal-of-u-s-fatca-lawsuit-dismissal/comment-page-1/#comment-7619540

    Hi folks. Victoria here. 🙂 I’m sort of following the lawsuit stuff but mostly I’m working on my Masters dissertation and I’m doing research here in Japan. I know this is a bit off topic but I know there are folks living in Japan here and I could use the help. So allow me thorw myself on your mercy.

    I have a survey up called Native English Speakers Residing in Japan and I do have one question in there about renunciants (people who have become Japanese). So if there is anyone here who qualifies (native English speaker living in Japan) I would great appreciate your participating in the survey. And if any of you know of people in Japan who might qualify for the survey I would sure appreciate your passing along the link. And here it is:

    https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JPNEnglish

    Thanks, folks, and kisses all around 🙂

    Victoria (the insane woman who went back to school at 50…)

  10. RE: the Presidential Open Question site
    Do you support a change to residence-based taxation and a repeal of FATCA?
    Currently at around 450 votes this question is doing fairly well on the Most Votes and Trending Now lists in the Taxes and Budget category. However, with so many categories it’s a long shot for getting into the town hall debate … but let’s try anyway. I gave them one of my husband’s yahoo e-mail addresses and the only zip code I could remember from the USA because I wasn’t sure if my Canadian ones would work. Spread the word to get more votes because it sure would be great to get an answer to this question.

  12. Thanks JakDac, Badger, EmBee and Stephen,
    I put it on the list along with your tip to use any US zip code.

  13. Just in case intermittent Brock readers have missed this, more votes would be appreciated on the Presidential Open Question site. Again, here’s the FATCA/RBT question:
    https://presidentialopenquestions.com/questions/6739/vote/
    Lard knows we’re all sick to death of “taking action” in the form of petition signing, letter writing and comment making but if our efforts fade away, so do our chances of ever getting a positive resolution.

  15. USPS assigns 9-digit zip codes to countries. For example USPS prints a bar code or dot matrix numerals on mail from the US to Japan showing zip code 00408-0001.

    I thought I found a list on Wikipedia a few years ago but can’t find it now. The only place I can find it now is in appendix A of this page:
    http://www.quine.org/phil-pub.html
    which used to be Appendix D when it was archived a few months ago:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20160419120022/http://www.quine.org/phil-pub.html

    Mr. Quine also lists a different USPS numbering system that assigned 00189-0000 to Japan but I’ve never seen that used.

    I wonder if those USPS zip codes would be accepted by some of the sites discussed in this thread.

    I ought to try it in the USPS’s web site the next time I complain about USPS not returning a completed A.R. card (return receipt) from my registered mail to the IRS. I’ve started writing instructions on the front of registered letters, “USPS: See USPS IMM 753.1. Complete and return the A.R. card” but USPS still doesn’t do it. I’ve submitted a few complaints online by pretending that my address is the addressee’s address but inputting the actual registration number (ending in JP instead of US) and USPS’s web server accepted them. USPS replied by e-mail a few times apologizing and saying they’ll improve, but they never improve. Of course the proper way to submit this kind of inquiry is to file a written demand at the post office I sent the registered mail from, and my post office really hates me by now. USPS doesn’t reply properly to those either. Well anyway, if I remember to try 00408-0001 next time, I’ll see if it works.

    Of course USPS assigns different zip codes to different countries. Look up yours.

  16. @Norman: PopVox needs a valid US State zip code. Here are some suggested ones for you to use:

    Barack Obama’s Chicago home: 60615
    Hillary Clinton’s NY home: 10514
    Chuck Schumer’s Albany office: 12207
    Robert Stack’s DC office: 20220

    Please add your vote. You have nothing to lose.

  18. He is a good man Bernie Sanders fighting for medicare for all. The prescriptions are to high and many cannot afford insurance and they should be covered under Medicaid.

  21. Here it is. Left to right, Martha Fuller Clark, member of the New Hampshire State Senate;
    my wife, Blanca Ceferina Alciere, proudly holding her new Certificate of Naturalization (I couldn’t talk her out of it.); our daughter, Josephine; United States Senator Jeanne Shaheen; and Tom Alciere. This is where I got in the jab, “It’s wonderful for the ones who want citizenship, but under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, it’s terrible for people in other countries, who are no more American than Senator Ted Cruz was a Canadian when he found out four years ago.”

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    Here it is. Left to right, Martha Fuller Clark, member of the New Hampshire State Senate;
    my wife, Blanca Ceferina Alciere, proudly holding her new Certificate of Naturalization (I couldn’t talk her out of it.); our daughter, Josephine; United States Senator Jeanne Shaheen; and Tom Alciere. This is where I got in the jab, “It’s wonderful for the ones who want citizenship, but under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, it’s terrible for people in other countries, who are no more American than Senator Ted Cruz was a Canadian when he found out four years ago.”

  23. Hey Tom Alciere. You didn’t tell us if the senator had any particular reaction to your “Jab.” Anything?

  24. “no more American than Senator Ted Cruz was a Canadian when he found out four years ago”

    Why not compare to Trump being British, though he might be too far removed to be German. Besides having a British mother, he sues neighbours of his British landhodlings for the right to abuse them.

  25. http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/consultations/nafta-alena/index.aspx?lang=eng#_blank
    http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/consultations/nafta-alena/info.aspx?lang=eng

    For Canadians, there is an opportunity to raise the NAFTA issues with FATCA at the upcoming NAFTA townhalls, and the deadline for submissions via the online portal http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/consultations/nafta-alena/form-formulaire.aspx?lang=eng has apparently been extended (deadline was July 18). http://globalnews.ca/news/3605482/nafta-public-consultations/

    For ammunition, see many mentions of the conflicts with NAFTA created by FATCA by someone with expertise in both topics;
    Christians, Allison and Cockfield, Arthur J., Submission to Finance Department on Implementation of FATCA in Canada (March 10, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2407264 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2407264

    Cockfield, Arthur J., FATCA and the Erosion of Canadian Taxpayer Privacy (April 1, 2014). Report to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, April 2014. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2433198

    http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/41-2/FINA/meeting-34/evidence#Int-8359630
    Standing Committee on Finance
    NUMBER 034, 2nd SESSION, 41st PARLIAMENT, EVIDENCE, Tuesday, May 13, 2014

    There may be usefulness in contacting your NDP MP to ask that they raise FATCA in terms of the NAFTA renegotiations http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/tories-ndp-want-liberals-to-outline-nafta-priorities-before-commons-committee-1.3507474 . You can try opposition Conservatives too, but as authors of the IGA they may or may not want to acknowledge their part in creating the IGA, and pushing it through via an omnibus bill and their previous parliamentary majority – making the IGA a reality despite the early opposition and public statements of the late MP and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty before his about face and announcement of intent to enter into an IGA.

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