Through a recent post at TaxProf Blog, I learned about the IRS’ Statistics of Income Bulletin. This finally gave me the lead on a figure in which I’d been interested for a long time: the number of Form 3520 filers. Unfortunately, the statistics are only released once every few years, and the next set aren’t scheduled for publication until December 2012. But you can see the figures for 1998, 2002, and 2006 here on the IRS website. The latest number: U.S. Persons filed a grand total of 1,952 Form 3520s and 3,819 Form 3520-As in 2006.
Don Whiteley at Vancouver Sun: The Accidental Kenyan
Don Whiteley asks what would happen if Kenya emulated the citizenship and taxation policies of the United States:
Ron Paul condemns Ex-PATRIOT Act: “will ensnare many ordinary middle-class Americans”
Of course, it was already obvious that libertarians oppose the “Expatriation Prevention” Act, but it’s heartening to see at least one sitting politician take a public stance against the wave of demagoguery and jingoism on which Schumer is surfing. Transcript and my comments after the jump.
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Over the past few years it’s come to our attention that we’ve been seriously neglecting many people who could be donating and reducing the overall debt, which would reduce the load on the US citizens who live in our great country. We’ve thought long and hard on this and have come up with a solution to make it very easy for you to donate.
United Nations’ human rights complaint procedure
I offered a commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, showing how the United States violates the letter and spirit of nearly every single right through its extra-territorial policiesof citizenship based taxation. For those who are sick of this, we probably have the basis of bringing a legitimate complaint against the United States at the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights. Now, if we were to succeed in bringing a legitimate complaint, we could create a lot of bad publicity for Schumer, Boehner, Casey, Reed, Geithner, Shulman and Obama. So I reproduce the complaint procedure here and I open up this question to discussion–What are the pros and cons? How should we go about doing this as a group?
Notice to Swiss Authorities: Canada resists US extraterritorial tax policies, Switzerland must too
Isaac Brock Society search engine optimisation report
Inspired by Petros’ observation about our Google ranking for “Bruce Ackermann” (though unfortunately not for the correct spelling “Bruce Ackerman”), I decided to check out how we rank for other search queries. All results come from anonymous Google searching over Tor, without any Google tracking cookie, so the results aren’t being influenced by my browsing behaviour (e.g. going to isaacbrocksociety.com and pressing “reload” 10 times a day).
Canadian Billionaire Giving It All Away
Here’s a fascinating article about a Canadian billionaire, who has lived in the US for years and has become a dual citizen. He’s in the process of giving much of his fortune away.
Why is the Quiet Disclosure (QD) so controversial between Practitioners?
I am admittedly way behind in reading the many recent good posts and comments here at Isaac Brock. I also have had a couple subjects I have wanted to weigh in on, and create new posts, but for the past couple weeks my time has been seriously constrained. However, this morning a previous post by renounceuscitizenship caught my attention. It was entitled Steve Mopsick – On the “coming into compliance dilemma”. I have been thinking about it all day, and why it is that this QD dilemma is so difficult for so many benign Minnows with the conflicting advice being provided by practitioners. Continue reading
Chuck Schumer lashes out at Petros on Senate floor
Okay, not by name, but he did decry the American Thinker, where Petros published an article just a few days ago. Anyway, in case you missed the news, Chuck Schumer hijacked the Senate floor on Thursday, claiming that he planned to discuss S.A. 2146 (which criminalises certain synthetic drugs), but instead giving a three thousand-word declamation about his Expatriation Prevention Act. Coincidentally, S.A. 2146 has three well-known anti-expat Senators as its cosponsors: not just Schumer, but Reed Amendment author Jack Reed (D-RI) and Foreign Earned Income Exclusion foe Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Anyway, Schumer’s speech begins on page S3548 of the Congressional Record of 24 May 2012. I’ve reprinted the whole thing below (the Congressional Record is not an object of copyright) with my comments.