On 19 July 2023 the Ways & Means Tax Subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Biden’s Global Tax Surrender Harms American Workers and Our Economy.” Stop Extraterritorial American Taxation (SEAT) notes that this hearing presents an opportunity to give the House Committee on Ways & Means your feedback on both (1) specifically, the hypocrisy of their position regarding unfair taxes, and/or (2) more generally, the impact of nationality-based U.S. extraterritorial tax policies on the lives of Americans who live outside of the United States.
Send to: WMSubmission@mail.house.gov.
SEAT notes that submission guidelines are at http://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ADVISORY_Tax-Subcommittee-July-19-2023.pdf and points out the following:
Please ATTACH your submission as a Microsoft Word document.
All submissions and supplementary materials must be submitted in a single document via email, provided in Word format and must not exceed a total of 10 pages. Please indicate the title of the hearing as the subject line in your submission. […] The name, […] address, [and] telephone numbers of [the person making the submission] must be included in the body of the email. Please exclude any personal identifiable information in the attached submission.
SEAT has submitted a statement to the Committee and encourages you to provide your own personal statement.
May be an opportunity to present a convincing cost-benefit analysis. The human rights and life disruption arguments seem to be ignored by governments and courts. But Congress tries to pay attention to dollars, and this scheme must cost the US government a lot more than it generates. The reason is that it is based on flawed premises. Showing the cost might catch attention and provide the opportunity to show the underlying flaws.
Just in the last hour I had somebody post multiple laughing emojis at the idea that US tax code could conflict with basic human rights, to pin people down and make them understand is not easy.
Yea, they need to see that their taxation exceptionalism is costing money, as it surely is.
The major underlying flaw, it appears to me, is that Congress believes that there is a cohort of wealthy people around the world that collectively owe the US a great deal of tax money. The truth seems to be that most of the diaspora are moderate income people who would owe no US tax if they filed US income tax. So there is no potential big harvest of tax. If that flaw could be exposed by a careful analysis, it might be convincing.