Just saw this. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York City sent a letter to Tim Geithner requesting he start a FATCA and FBAR education campaign for expats. For some reason I don’t see this happening either and I think Maloney knows that too. I will note Maloney is becoming pretty powerful among House Democrats only a few ranks below(and supposedly a close personal friend) of Nancy Pelosi. I think perhaps pressure could be more successfully applied to US House members than Senators who are imbeciles led by Reid and Levin.

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Read this —

Ronald L. Brekke, 55, helped prepare phony tax forms for nearly 1,000 people, most of them Canadians, claiming more than $763 million in fraudulent refunds … Brekke told clients to cash their fraudulent checks as soon as they received them and take the money back to Canada.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-tax-fraud-20120316,0,4261032.story

                 — and then ask yourself how big the red flag is that now flies over the word Canada at the IRS.

$14 million … all but impossible to recover.
 

I found this Financial Times article about the Swiss parliamentary vote, you will have to register for free at Financial Times to retreive it (8 articles per day for free or something like that [Editor’s Note:  Try this link instead, routed through Google news]).   Financial Times : Swiss parliament backs tax amendment   The article seems to twist the whole affair around and as far as I am concerned it is negative press for us.

Here is a link to my original rant on the parliamentary vote

As the ides of March premonish the far more perfidious April 15, this day of 2012 just now passed seems to have coincided with the number of named participants at Isaac Brock Society having crossed the 200 threshhold. Hard to tell for sure, but it looks that way.

Ring… Ring…

Secretary: Hello John Culberson’s office.

American abroad: Hello, I am a voter in John Culberson’s district. What is the Congressman’s position on FATCA, FBAR, and Americans abroad?

Secretary: I am not sure. Let me see if Robert is free. He is the legislative director.

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A good example of why the U.S. should compete on tax rates.

Switzerland against the world

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The up-to-date database resides in Part 2 (link at the bottom of this page).

Above is a link to data we are compiling on Relinquishments and Renunciations — a work in progress. This corresponds with the Consulate Report Directory (in sticky post below), tracking individual experiences for each Consulate, along with a timeline chart.

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