Here it is:

http://bsmlegal.com/PDFs/NZ.pdf

They don’t know quite what they want other than they want KiwiSaver plans exempted. JustMe and Moby might want to call their NZ MPs and have a word with them. They also claim to have extensive information sharing between NZ IRD and US IRS.

Perhaps you might want to have a word with Danie Beukman, Second Secretary at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington.

Another group I suspect might be interested in this letter I suspect would be the NZ Greens and NZ Labour.

Update: Call Danie Beukman on Monday. Really he works pretty closely with the US House Ways and Means committee. He is pretty active on Twitter also.

Mr Lewis’s assertion that all American’s who renounce are rich fatca-ts has got me wondering just how many non-resident US persons who neglect file do so because they can’t afford to pay an accountant to do it. Those of us required to file include seniors on fixed incomes, young people just starting out in life, the disabled, single parents, etc. I would think that the numbers could be as high as the hundreds of thousands if you consider everyone who should be filing. There was a time in my life as a single parent even if I had known about my obligation to file US income tax I would have been hard pressed to spend my Canadian child tax credit on filing US taxes.

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This is the complete list of all the types of information the Canada Revenue Agency automatically sends to the IRS for US Residents receiving Canadian income. I would say we are hardly a tax haven. Additionally payors of these types of income are required by Canadian law to get a TIN from whoever the US resident recepient is.

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Especially since my attention unnecessarily spiralled into the vortex of the latter stages of 2011 OVDI, I have been wanting to read The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Even without the IRS theme, I would have gravitated in that direction because (1) the book is a sizeable unfinished novel (2) the author committed suicide.

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Good comments:

Violation of NZ Human Rights Law

Violation of NZ Privacy Law

No Ability under NZ law to withold tax

Cannot comply with FATCA under NZ law

Suggest “Intergovernmental Agreement” (I am getting tired of this)

http://bsmlegal.com/PDFs/NZBA.pdf

There is an insert in the middle from the Australian Bankers Association

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Vancouver pastor Samuel Lee identified as man hassled by rude Seattle residents

It used to be that Canadians were more of a curiosity to Americans than anything else, but as the US loses ground and Canada manages to keep afloat, we may see more of this if only on a more subtle level. Those in US tourism know what’s at stake here, but as the average person there flounders it will be harder for those people to see the forest for the trees.