Media and Blog Articles Open for Comments – Part 4 of 11 (Year 2017)
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Media and Blog Articles
EmBee suggested that it would be good if there was a thread for new articles, so that people would be aware of where to comment. So, I created this permanent page. I’ll make a permanent list of links posted here and keep adding to it, but not deleting, so we’ll end up having sort of a “bibliography” of FATCA/CBT articles. [Note: Some articles are not open for comments]
For more articles on FATCA, enter FATCA into Google then click on the link “more news for fatca” just below the most recent featured article.
Notes:
From JC: To see #FATCA on Twitter for latest breaking news. JC finds that is quite a good source and there even are some international articles that one may read using Google Translate. Others may help certain tweets and articles remain in elevated position by retweeting them.
From Badger: On an important archival note, please use the Internet Archive Wayback machine https://archive.org/web/ (see bottom right ‘Save Page Now’ box to enter URLs of webpages you want saved for posterity, and try to save backup copies of articles and other items of interest in some other form – such as a datastick or external drive. Some important and very significant webpages and the fulltexts of articles are no longer available (although some can be retrieved if someone using the Wayback machine saved them).
Be sure to read the comment stream for this thread — there are usually very recent articles mentioned there that aren’t on this list yet.
2017.12.28
It’s time to address the double standard about tax havens, Angela Wrights, Macleans, Canada.
The US Is Becoming the World’s New Tax Haven, The Editors, Bloomberg View, US.
2017.12.21
Rep. Dina Titus Supports Americans Abroad Tax Reform, Democrats Abroad, US.
Now That The GOP Tax Bill Is Approved, The IRS Gets Busy, Brian Naylor, NPR, US.
2017.12.20
Taxpayers will have to wait to find out how they fare under new legislation , Renae Merle and Aaron Gregg, Denver Post (reprint from Washington Post), US.
U.S. Shareholders –Take Action by December 31, KPMG.
2017.12.18
Have You Ever Felt Sorry for the I.R.S? Now Might Be the Time, Patricia Cohen, New York Times, US.
2017.12.12
EU finance ministers issue warning to Trump over tax reforms, RTÉ, Ireland.
2017.12.11
Banque: les consequences étonnantes de l’accord FATCA, Edouard Lederer, Les Echos, France.
2017.12.10
As Australia ousts MPs with dual citizenship, Canada’s Parliament embraces many in its ranks, Kathleen Harris, Canada. (mentions MP who “assumed his U.S. citizenship was automatically rescinded because he did not meet several requirements for continued citizenship. [But when travelling to Washington] was told he was ineligible to enter the U.S. on a Canadian passport because he was a U.S. citizen. He was . . . allowed in on a one-time basis . . . it cost him $3,000 to later sort out the administrative requirements.”)
2017.12.09
The American Diaspora: Outreach and Organization, Victoria Ferauge, The Franco-American Flophouse, Japan.
2017.12.08
Foreign-owned banks to be hit by US tax rules, Financial Times, UK.
Trump Tax Plan Worries Europe, Christian Reiermann, Der Spiegel, Germany.
For articles earlier in 2017, click here.
From the article referenced above by Plaxy: “The acting German finance minister, Peter Altmaier, a senior member of Merkel’s Christian Democrats, has asked Ministry officials to look into whether the U.S. plans contravene the German-American Treaty of Friendship. This agreement from the 1950s forbids either country from discriminating against companies from the other.”
Would that the German finance minister had had the same concern when FATCA was imposed by the Obama administration. *It*, sure as hell, contravenes the German-American Treaty of Friendship! Oh, but I forgot. FATCA affects individuals, and little people don’t matter to big government the way corporations do.
There’s still time to add your signature to the UN Human Rights Complaint!
Perhaps an opportunity to raise Lebouthillier’s defence of FATCAnizing Canadians as another of her and the CRA’s maltreatments of ordinary taxpayers;
ex.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/cra-backs-down-in-row-with-diabetics-denied-disability-tax-credit-1.3713390
Thought USCitizenAbroad might like this comment on CBC;
“…The worst enemies of Canada’s National Security and Sovereignty, even our nation’s very existence, are the over 3 Million dual citizen Americans who vote in our elections, hold public office, manipulate committees, government policies, and own, control, and run Canada for their benefit, and the harm and eventual demise of Canada. They are the # 1 foreign agents we need to expel from Canada.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dual-citizenship-mps-senators-parliament-australia-1.4439522#vf-7262000011997
But the author isn’t talking about FATCA.
And all those who are opining there have no clue how difficult it is to shed US status.
It’s best for your sanity not to read CBC comment. Or any comments, really. It’s painful to witness just how very, very many very, very stupid people there are in the world.
FYI-
For those not on Facebook.
There is a new entity brewing to only focus on U.S. Person Overseas issues of Repeal Citizenship Based Taxation and Repeal FATCA, and focus on other U.S. Person Overseas issues. The spark for this is frustration with political and other groups that while claiming they represent U.S. person overseas issues seem to pursue them from a “homelander abroad” mentality.
Keith Redmond is behind this. The new group will come out of the American Expatriates Group on Facebook. It sounds like there will be a separate webpage as well.
Next up: name generation for this new group. Sounds like the name for American Expatriates Group will be changing.
Any name suggestions?
A few people, including myself like United Americans Abroad. I don’t like anything with “Expatriate” (sounds too much like champagne swilling “ex-patriots”), and “Overseas” because Canada and Mexico aren’t overseas.
@BB
In the next round of naming there will be some comments such as you provide above.
Expatriate will likely get nixed.
Interesting about Overseas. There was more comment against Abroad as that has temporary connotations as in people travel abroad. I think momentum will favour of Overseas as opposed to Abroad. Your comment will be included.
Bopp went to the SC with a group named Citizens United. The United part may come at the end.
Keith also wants to encompass Accidentals and they become tricky as they don’t identify as Americans.
@Nononymous
re;”It’s best for your sanity not to read CBC comment. Or any comments, really. It’s painful to witness just how very, very many very, very stupid people there are in the world.”
Seeing it in writing, a concrete testament to that stupidity, recorded for posterity, is even more unbearable.
Overseas has a military connotation, no? I feel it excludes Canadians. Grover Norquist would agree.
I strongly oppose it, but who cares what I think in the grand scheme of thing.
Non-resident?
Difficult to find a name that would cover all those potentially affected by US citizenship laws in combination with US tax laws in a cross-border context.
A name referring to what the group wants to achieve might be easier. Renunciation Rights, or something on those lines?
Taking the term from Mike’s
“Tax colonization through marriage”,
how about
‘Americans against tax colonization’?
Or considering some do not identify as Americans
‘United against American Tax colonization.’
Will the group aim
to change US tax law,
to change US citizenship law, or
to seek international protection from the consequences of the interaction of US tax/citizenship law on innocent parties not residing in the US?
Great, I’ll post on AE within the next day and I’ll include all of those.
JC – interesting list. “NAUSEATED” made me laugh – not sure if I would want to join a group with that name though. 🙂
I wouldn’t join any group that involved signing up to Facebook though. Is it going to be FB only?.
STOP THE US DRAGNET!
@plaxy I am not sure where it will lead. FixTheTaxTreaty got off the ground because a relative of Karen donated the time and expertise for the website.
Joining F. B. An e-mail address for the purpose is in order. Easy done with Gmail. F. B. will ask for a phone number. You may give them any, laundry service etc. Come on you could do it.
Here is the post: in regards to brain storm for name ideas for a new entity.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmericanExpatriates/permalink/902203916612348/
JC – yes, I could join Facebook but I don’t want to. I’ll watch with interest and wish the group luck.
@ JC
I agree with those who think it’s hard to succinctly label our diverse “expat” group. If you want to go the other route and focus on the aims of the group then how about Taking Action Against American Taxation (TAAAT) or maybe that’s more like a slogan. I’m another one who doesn’t want to be a FB member (Zuck Sucks).
EU finance ministers issue warning to Trump over tax reforms
Updated / Monday, 11 Dec 2017 18:22
No mention of FATCA.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2017/1211/926623-eu-finance-ministers-issue-tax-reform-warning-to-trump/
@EmBee I think focus on the aims would be easier.
We will see where it all leads.
@JC – I created the initial content for the FixTheTaxTreaty website and provided the basic structure. My sister, who is a web design professional, helped with some of the back end and advice on what works. With WordPress, setting up a website is not all that difficult, and not very expensive. Content is the hardest part. I would advise anyone setting up such a website to have it hosted outside of the US. Our site is hosted in Australia.
As for your list of names – it would be helpful if you created a poll to see which one(s) people like/hate and why. Google Forms works well for this – it’s free, responses are anonymous (unlike FB polls), and it’s pretty easy to use.
@plaxy – I totally understand not wanting to join FB – there are days I wish I hadn’t.
@JC
First time I have ever heard of anybody suggesting that America should work together with the EU on tax reform. But man- it makes a lot of sense even if Trump would never do this.