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.

Less than a month after it lobbied Congress, the Treasury and the IRS to include Americans who are resident abroad in a plan to provide U.S. citizens with a "stimulus payment" to help them weather the coronavirus pandemic, the American Citizens Abroad is now just as forcefully urging Washington officials to fix the problems thousands of expats are having in accessing their money.

A U.S. court has upheld an an earlier court ruling that a U.S. law firm must disclose to the Internal Revenue Service the names of its clients who are behind offshore bank accounts and foreign entities.

The U.S. Treasury and the IRS on Tuesday issued guidance that they said was aimed at providing "relief to individuals and businesses affected by travel disruptions arising from the COVID-19 emergency".

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has announced that it is now pushing back the deadline for those in so-called Model 1 IGA FATCA jurisdictions to provide their FATCA data for the 2019 tax year to U.S. officials, in response to the global COVID-19 virus disruption. 

A report that more than 1 million U.S. citizens living in states "as far afield as California and Pennsylvania" have been "blocked" from receiving CARES Act stimulus checks, which they seemingly should be entitled to, "because they are married to immigrants who don't have Social Security numbers," has sparked a debate among tax and legal experts in Expatland.

As Americans who have been resident abroad for years know only too well, when the IRS has news for U.S. expats, it's usually not good. However, as the American Expat Financial News Journal and other media organizations reported last month, the U.S. government actually included Americans who are resident overseas among those U.S. citizens who would be potentially eligible to receive a "recovery rebate" check, 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...

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has pushed back the filing and payment deadlines for Americans who live overseas to July 15 – which some observers had actually expected it to do, in recognition of the huge issues many individuals, businesses and the IRS itself are facing as a result of the current coronavirus pandemic.