The Internal Revenue Service has quietly announced that it is introducing "temporary U.S. Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) relief" for non-U.S. banks and other "foreign financial institutions" located in certain countries, so that they won't be deemed to be in "significant non-compliance" of their obligations under the U.S. tax evasion-prevention law…

(...but it's said no more reciprocal than other Model 1 IGAs) Argentina has at last agreed a FATCA Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the U.S. government, according to a statement on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Argentina, tax industry sources, and news reports in that country. Until now, Argentina had…

 As regular readers of the American Expat Financial News Journal may recall, a story about U.S. Social Security benefits that we ran in October highlighted the fact that many expats are surprised to discover, when they formally apply to begin receiving their Social Security payments, that they are line to…