A Bloomberg News reporter would like to interview accidental Americans who wish to renounce but are awaiting the announced lowering of the fee back to the $450, which it was prior to being hiked to $2350 in 2014 hike. In response to a case initiated by l’Association des Américains accidentals in US District Court (District of Columbia), the US Department of State notified the Court in January 2023, shortly prior to the scheduled hearing on the matter, that it would reduce the renunciation fee to $450, but to date has given no indication of when the decrease is to take effect.
Fabien Lehagre of l’Association des Américains accidentals notified me of the request from the Bloomberg reporter. He mentions that one may remain anonymous and that, although Bloomberg is an English language news site, the interview can be done in French.
If you’d like to be interviewed by Bloomberg News, please contact Fabien at president@americains-accidentels.fr
Post this to the r/usexpattaxes subreddit. One periodically sees comments from people doing precisely this.
@ Ron H,
Thank you for this info and I’ll let Fabien at l’AAA know too.
I haven’t posted here in I think more than half a decade so I really don’t know what the discussion is like here anymore but I saw that former US Congressman Jim McDermott(a FATCA supporting notoriously unsympathetic to expats member along with being the member of Congressman for multiple early Brockers like Victoria Ferauge and Stephen Kish) has now himself gone into a self imposed exile from the United States due to Donald Trump and now lives in a small village outside of Bordeaux France. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
https://www.rawstory.com/ex-lawmaker-escapes-trump-threats-at-safe-house-in-france-and-urges-others-to-follow/