I personally think that the folks who try to run and hide are going to get it. The works — fines, possible criminal prosecution and possible deportation from the host country. And it’s so easy to find us. Victoria
A lawyer who presented to a group on the topic of U.S. taxation of Canadian residents recently offered up the colorful phrase full ostrich to describe noncompliant persons whose strategy remains that of keeping on keeping on.
Canadian House of Commons votes to legalize sports betting
United States "overcharging" the Russians: Why the United States needs its expats
The State Department enjoys a multi-billion dollar budget. Why then would Hillary Clinton embarrass the United States in front of the Russian Foreign Minister?
Negative Option Marketing
Is it possible that the U.S. Supreme Court by saying that a person is presumed to have the intent of keeping U.S. citizenship is actually guilty of using negative option marketing. What you may ask is negative option marketing? Here is one definition:
Any males aged between 18-25 who have renounced?
Right before I left the US to go to university my parents filled in the “selective service” conscription card for me that came in the post. I haven’t in all honesty thought anything about it until today.
Where is America headed?
Just a quick post to draw readers attention to this latest commentary by Naomi Wolf at the Guardian.
“The US is sleepwalking into becoming a police state, where, like a pre-Magna Carta monarch, the president can lock up anyone.”
Does FATCA officially mean the end of banking privacy?
Here’s an excerpt:
Banking privacy is dead. Completely, totally dead. Murdered, really. The US government is the assailant, and FATCA is the murder weapon.
Courage
…I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (Warner Books, 1960) 112.
Calvin Ayre, Fugitive from United States Justice
Calvin Ayre, Canadian citizen and owner of Bodog, has been indicted by the United States, along with three other Canadians. Is this an example of a big time money launderer? Or is it just another example of U.S. extra-territorial judicial overreach? Meanwhile, check out Ayre’s website, bodog.com.
The State of the U.S. Congress
Here is the link to an article in the Christian Science Monitor which talks about how polarized the Congress is becoming. If the author is correct then I don’t think that expats can really expect much relief from Washington’s war against them. This is an example of why the argument that we have no representation is a valid one. Where will there be any voices that will listen to reason? Our only representation is through the legislative assemblies of the countries in which we reside and the fact that the governments of other countries are willing to stand up for people that the U.S. believes belong exculsively to them is what makes them even more angry.