Ongoing Projects – Make Change Happen!
Twitter Rally Point: #FATCA
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Sept 2019. Support the UK Legal Challenge to FATCA.
May 2018. Brock project: Seeking Stories from Current or Former US Citizens who are or were Destroyed by Attempting to Comply with US Citizenship Tax. Your stories will be presented to Congressman George Holding (Republican North Carolina) may be proposing a bill that could allow some U.S. citizens to live outside the United States and NOT be subject to U.S. tax on their “non-U.S. income”
May 2018. Submissions to US House Ways and Means Committee re Tax Reform and Small Businesses. Deadline 6 June.
May 2018. Brock project: Advice on how to explain the effects of the @USTransitionTax through a question in the House of Commons. Deadline 15 May.
July 2017. The Big Six: Contact the 6 House, Senate and White House officials preparing detailed framework for tax reform (their proposal is scheduled for presentation in September). Suggested Deadline 30 August.
July 2017. Consulting Canadians on the renogtiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Mexico. Department of Trade and Commerce, Canada. Direct link to questionnaire. For more informationabout this and links to useful “ammunition” for your submission, please see Badger’s comment on this thread Comment 1, Comment 2, Comment 3. Deadline of 18 July has been “indefinitely extended.”
January 2017. Contact US House Ways & Means Committee re Tax Reform Now!
December 2016. Your Next New Years Resolution: Join Twitter to Help Highlight CBT Injustices Twitter Rally Point: #FATCA
November 2016. Lobby the New US Government!
Meet with your Member of Parliament – Talking Points and Reports
List of Surveys, Petitions, Submissions
Contact Info for Government Representatives, Australia, Canada, US. Please comment with a link to the govt representative’s contact info for your country and we’ll add it.
Anti-FATCA Publicity and Protest Materials for use on-line and hard copy This page is quite a hodgepodge of links and resources, but there’s plenty of useful stuff on it.
Australia
Let’s Fix the Australia/US Tax Treaty!
Canada
Alliance for the Defense of Canadian Sovereignty
United States
Alliance for the Defeat of Citizenship Taxation
Archive
July 2017. US Senate Finance Committee Chair Calls for Feedback on Tax Reform. Deadline 17 July.Can’t get the link to show up. It’s at http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2017/07/11/us-senate-finance-committee-chair-calls-for-feedback-on-tax-reform-deadline-17-july/
February 2017. Australia Department of Foreign Affairs. Submissions for Foreign Policy White Paper. Deadline 28 February. (I’m having a problem getting the link for this to show up on my screen. This is the url for it: http://dfat.gov.au/whitepaper/index.html
E-Mail Trinidad & Tobago Parliament. Deadline Friday 10 February. If you feel that U.S. FATCA “agreements” with sovereign nations are harmful then email your thoughts BY FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10 to jscfatca@ttparliament.org
UK legal challenge against FATCA – https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/fatcahmrcprivacybreach/
Read more at http://fixthetaxtreaty.org/2019/09/10/uk-legal-challenge-against-fatca/
Good luck and thanks for your personal endeavour in the UK, adding to those speaking out against FATCA, Jenny. And, and thanks for providing the information, Karen.
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