Category Archives: Issues regarding US persons abroad

Here is the link to the IRS News Room. I expect that within the next year, the U.S. will pass a law applicable to every  country, making this (IRS News Room) the home page on every browser of the world. Not only is intended to be the “Latest News”, but it is intended to be the only news.

Here is the part that announces the December FS – the information to U.S. citizens and dual citizens living outside the United States:

Information for U.S. Citizens or Dual Citizens Residing Outside the U.S.
FS-2011-13, December 2011 – This fact sheet summarizes information about federal income tax return and FBAR filing requirements for duel citizens in Canada, the United Kingdon and other countries.

Do you see anything wrong with this?  There are at least two mistakes. Do you think the use of the word “duel” is a Freudian slip?

Here is information from the Federal Register dates January 26, 2012. Note the penalties. If you are a permanent resident of Canada who has not become a Canadian citizen …

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-01-26/html/2012-1567.htm

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 17 (Thursday, January 26, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 3964-3966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-1567]

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What does it mean for the future?

http://rubinontax.blogspot.com/

 
The statistics for search engine terms that bring internet trawlers onto the Isaac Brock Society web site show that only one search counts for much at all: the three words “isaac brock society.” A known-item search …

I poked into this findability topic after monitoring and testing search functionality over at the InfoShop. At this point Google has crawled around the InfoShop — a phrase search [wrap it in quotation marks] for a pithy bit like “longstanding american exceptionalism” will demonstrate that.

The words that worried expatriate Americans seem likely to stab into their keyboards will not connect them in any easy fashion with either Isaac Brock Society or with the InfoShop. Launch a few verbal forays and see for yourself. Stabbing into the dark.

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