The American Citizens Abroad, the non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Rockville, Maryland that exists to help Americans who live overseas, will be co-hosting a free webinar this Thursday with Amsterdam-based Americans Overseas, an advisory firm that helps "accidental Americans" and other American expats in the Netherlands, while also advocating on their behalf on legislative issues.

In what some are seeing as a blow to countless thousands of Americans who own stakes in non-U.S. corporations – including expats as well as Homelanders – a federal court in Washington state ruled on Thursday that a key retroactive element of President Trump's controversial, 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is constitutional.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows did in fact receive a letter sent to him last month by the Republicans Overseas that urged him to call on President Trump to use his presidential authority to issue an "executive order" aimed at fixing certain tax issues expat Americans are currently struggling with, and is "very interested in doing something to end double taxation [for expats] legislatively after the election", according to RO chief executive and vice president Solomon Yue.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday issued what it said was a "final regulation" addressing how income earned by foreign corporations that has already been subject to a high rate of foreign tax may declared, in order to "allow taxpayers to exclude certain high-taxed income of a controlled foreign corporation from their Global Intangible Low Taxed Income (GILTI) computation on an elective basis".

Monte Silver, the American tax attorney resident in Israel who has been challenging elements of President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (TCJA) that he says would devastate small overseas businesses run by Americans – such as his – said final regulations issued by the U.S. Treasury Department yesterday represented a “huge win for our advocacy”.

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.

The Republicans Overseas, “as well as several of its chapters”, have filed a "motion for a leave to file" amicus brief in a potentially precedent-setting legal challenge to a key element of President Trump’s 2017 tax reform legislation, being brought in Washington, D.C. by Israel-based U.S. tax attorney Monte Silver.

American expatriates who own small- and medium-sized small business corporations outside the U.S. are expressing growing concern over what they say is a move by two Washington lawmakers to legislatively reverse a 2019 interpretation by the U.S. Treasury of elements of President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which had been meant to help such individual owner/operators of such small, non-U.S. businesses, who had originally been hard-hit by the Trump legislation.

For Israel-based American tax law specialist Monte Silver, what was to turn out to be one of the key components of his legal challenge against President Donald Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act didn't exactly leap from the 250 pages of the final draft of the regulations, as he first studied them after they were issued in August 2018...

With the New Hampshire Democratic Primary set for next Tuesday, and, as reported, the Democrats Abroad's Global Presidential Primary scheduled for March 3 to 10, expats are increasingly desperate to know where the candidates stand on such key issues as FATCA, citizenship-based taxation and President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

None of the candidates thus far, however, has shown quite the same level of enthusiasm for going on the record in detail with respect to their positions on such topics...