IRS announces 'significant enhancements' to its 'Get My Payment' tool

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.

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Bright!Tax's Allyson Lindsey, to expats: 'How to go about getting a COVID-19 rebate payment'

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...

IRS extends filing and payment deadlines for expats to July 15

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. 

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Acting National Taxpayer Advocate calls for IRS 'culture shift' as annual report released

In her 2019 Annual Report to Congress, acting National Taxpayer Advocate Bridget Roberts said the U.S. IRS needed to significantly raise its game with respect to the way it carries out its role as the nation's tax collecting agency.

But to "truly transform the organization" – which, she noted in a  five-page preface to this year's NTA report, Congress effectively called on it to do last year when it passed the so-called Taxpayer First Act – the IRS "needs to rethink the way it operates", starting with "a culture shift".

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FBARs (FinCEN Form 114s), Form 8938s and Form 8966s: not just one but three ways Uncle Sam monitors Americans’ overseas holdings

FBARs (FinCEN Form 114s), Form 8938s and Form 8966s: not just one but three ways Uncle Sam monitors Americans’ overseas holdings

More American expats are familiar these days than they used to be with Foreign Bank Account Reports (“FBARs”), aka FinCEN Form 114s – which need to be filed by American...

Apr-07-2022