And then there were none: How the United States government is persecuting United States persons living abroad and what we can do about it. Continue reading
Tag Archives: IRS
Dumping on Newt? Hardly
My Christmas Eve post made its way to Townhall, thanks to Just Me, who passed it on to Daniel J. Mitchel of the Cato Institute. A certain Pamela reacted: “Did okay UNTIL you got to the dump on Newt.” She was reacting to the words that Newt Gingrich said in the post, explaining why he supported the nabbing of Santa Claus in a foreign country: Continue reading
Stop Citizenship-Based Taxation – Repeal FATCA
This is a repost from RenounceUSCitizenship.
“U.S. citizenship-based taxation is unique in the world and recent related actions undertaken by the IRS and Congress are literally destroying the community of Americans residing overseas and will consequently do irreparable damage to U.S. competitiveness in world markets.”
Breaking News: Santa Claus arrested
U.S. Federal agents arrested Santa Claus earlier today at the North Pole. Special Christmas Edition (Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!)
FBAR-FATCA-Form 8938 filing requirements circumvent the 4th Amendment and are thus equal to the issuing of a General Warrant
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 to the need to assess a person’s tax liability. The information, Continue reading
The term "aggregate" in IRS-speak is fraud commited against US persons
The IRS is using a fraudulent accounting practice, in the spirit of Enron and Bernie Madoff, to expose US persons to increased FBAR fines.
Did you relinquish before February 6, 1995? Then you did not have to inform the State Department
See also: Please read this post if your actual expatriation date is before 2004 (Updated)
The blog post on ex post facto stirred up a flurry of e-mails between members of the society. It switched on a light bulb for some that the State Department and the IRS were trying to pull a fast one, and that those who were following rules at the time of their relinquishment were not required to follow the new rules.
No ex post facto law
The United States of America is creating ex post facto laws by insisting that persons born in the United States who lost their citizenship in the past but failed to inform the State Department are now once again citizens who must file income taxes and FBARs in the United States. The US Constitution clearly forbids Congress and the states from enacting ex post facto laws (Article I, sec. 9-10).
About the Isaac Brock Society
The Isaac Brock Society consists of individuals who are concerned about the treatment by the United States government of US persons who live in Canada and abroad. Continue reading
Is the taxation of US persons abroad constitutional?
This post original appeared at the Righteous Investor. It argues that since the US census does not count US persons abroad, they do not have proportional representation in the House of Representatives. Thus, even though citizens abroad may vote in Federal elections, they are voting for someone else’s representative, not their own. This is a violation of the Ninth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
See also:
Is it taxation without representation if you can vote? Damn right!
Do United States persons abroad differ substantially from residents of Washington D.C.?
Tax Treaty in conflict with Canada’s Human Rights Act
