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. 

Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm, has signed a collaboration agreement with a Central American law firm that instantly will expand its presence to eight additional locations in six Central American countries, in addition to a new collaboration agreement with what it says is “one of the oldest, largest and most respected law firms in Slovenia”.

Nine additional speakers – including American Citizens Abroad's legal counsel Charles Bruce, Dunhill Financial's Brian Dunhill, and Waverton Investment Management director Andrew Vaughan-Payne – have been added to the line-up for the Democrats Abroad U.K.'s  first-ever "Tax Day" next month.

A U.S. Internal Revenue Service announcement on July 19, by the agency’s “Large Business and International Division” (LB&I), of a new set of compliance initiatives, is attracting growing attention among overseas American tax experts because of its likely impact on expat U.S. citizens.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has begun sending "educational letters" to U.S. taxpayers who have been engaging in "virtual currency transactions" and whom it says either "potentially failed to report income and pay the resulting tax" they were seen to owe on certain of these virtual currency transactions, or failed to "report their transactions properly." 

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last June is expected to impact every company that sells goods or services into the U.S. – within months, weeks or days. 

The IRS's collection of 15 tax quotations, wonderful as it is – as we noted yesterday – does miss a few classics that rank highly in our own collection.

There's Benjamin Franklin’s quote, for one thing, which is probably among the world's best-known tax quotations of all: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” 

As the countdown  continues to Tax Day in the U.S., on Monday, we thought it would be a good time to call attention to a rather quirky collection of tax quotations that we stumbled on, buried deep inside the IRS’s website.

Yup. For all its unflinching greediness, which seems to radiate from its very website at this time of year, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service would seem, on at least some level, to be aware of certain ironies, hypocrisies and even undeniably funny things that are fundamental to the business of taxing people...

The Democrats Abroad, which represents members of the U.S. Democratic Party who are resident overseas, has launched a major research project it says is aimed at gathering information it plans to use in its efforts to reform the way American expats are currently taxed.