So-called "accidental Americans" and organizations that represent their interests on Tuesday were welcoming a vow by President Trump that he plans to seek to terminate the automatic right to U.S. citizenship for children born in the United States to non-citizens.
When the Hollywood version of Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel, Crazy Rich Asians, hit the world's cinemas recently, English-language commentators familiar with the multi-cultural Singaporean dialect took note of the "Singlish" words used in the film – such as "lah", which Singaporeans like to add to the end of a phrase for emphasis.
UBS, the Zurich-based banking group, is to return to the business of looking after high-net-worth Americans, including expats, almost a decade after it was fined US$780m by the Justice Department for helping wealthy U.S. clients to evade tax.
The American Citizens Abroad yesterday reiterated its strong objections to a key measure contained in President Trump’s recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, at an IRS and Treasury Department hearing.
A "blacklist" of 20 countries that offer so-called “golden passports” to affluent foreigners in order to raise revenue has been published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, as it warned of the potential misuse of these schemes to hide offshore assets from the scrutiny of the OECD's recently-introduced Common Reporting Standard scheme.
Although Brexit continues to dominate the media coverage of U.K. political matters, long-time watchers of the political scene know that before the month is out, the U.K. chancellor, Philip Hammond, will present his budget for the next financial year.
The Association of Americans Residents Overseas this Thursday will be sponsoring a seminar in Paris that will seek to help Americans living in France to better understand the issues involved in estate planning while abroad.
In the early years of this century, a number of major media exposés reported how Homeland Americans, as well as rich people from other developed and developing countries, were making...
Mar-18-2023
