Monte Silver, the American tax attorney resident in Israel who in January 2019 filed a still-ongoing lawsuit that challenges the so-called Transition Tax element of President Trump's 2017 tax reform legislation, has filed another lawsuit, also in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, over another aspect of the same Trump bill.

Anthony Scaramucci, the well-known American businessman and media figure behind a New York-based alternative investment firm called SkyBridge Capital, says the reason Congress has failed to address the major tax problems expat Americans have been struggling with for years is because the issues are simply  “not on anybody’s radar” in Washington.

The U.S. Treasury has now sent CARES Act Economic Stimulus Payments to nearly three-quarters of a million American expats and Green Card holders, as of May 22.

The Internal Revenue Service has added some 3,500 telephone representatives to answer taxpayers' questions about their Economic Impact Payments, which expats are able to access if they don't mind paying for the cost of an international telephone call.

The U.S. Treasury says it is beginning to send out many of the Economic Impact Payments to U.S. taxpayers who haven't yet received theirs in the form of pre-paid debit cards rather than by paper check.

The U.S. Treasury has sent CARES Act Economic Stimulus Payments to more than half a million American expats, as of last Friday (May 8), the IRS has reported.

 As Bright!Tax partner and managing Certified Public Accountant Allyson Lindsey explained last month, Americans who are resident outside the U.S. are potentially eligible to receive a "recovery rebate" check or automatic deposit, as part of a US$2.2 trillion bipartisan bill aimed at providing emergency relief to individuals and businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

Here, she addresses further issues expats are having as they try to secure their COVID-19 rebate money, including the fact that they don’t need a U.S. bank account to receive it...

The American Citizens Abroad has asked the IRS to extend its deadline for those American expats wishing to use its online "Get My Payment" tool to input their direct deposit information beyond this coming Wednesday, as messages and updates having to do with the one-off CARES Act economic impact payments continue to be issued on a seemingly daily basis. 

Two lawsuits were filed in the U.S. on Friday against President Trump and other key U.S. government officials over the denial to certain American taxpayers of their right to receive CARES Act "Economic Impact Payments" because they are married to non-American citizens who, though taxpayers, don't have Social Security numbers. 

Under attack at home and abroad for the problems American taxpayers have been encountering as they struggle to use an online IRS tool to obtain the relief payments promised to them by the government's recently-enacted CARES Act stimulus package, the Internal Revenue Service has announced what it called "significant enhancements" to the feature.