Tax

Friday's vote on the FATCA proposal in France's National Assembly

Setback for FATCA reciprocity advocates in France, as Assembly fails to approve amendment

The latest attempt by certain French lawmakers to introduce a proposed amendment that would oblige the U.S. to reciprocate with respect to the information it currently receives from France under FATCA has ended, after members of France's National Assembly voted against it late in the afternoon on Friday.

June 15, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

ACA to Treasury: 'de minimis rule' needed for GILTI and Transition Tax (and btw, RBT is needed too)

The American Citizens Abroad has written to seven top U.S. Treasury officials, including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, to urge it to "revisit" the way President Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is affecting the small- to medium-sized businesses owned by Americans overseas – in addition…

June 10, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

The ProPublica website, showing its exposé into how America's 'wealthiest avoid income taxes

ProPublica revelations about tax avoidance by America's richest seen to deepen expats' concerns about future

A major analysis of IRS documents by ProPublica – a New York-based, non-profit investigative journalism organization – has shown how some of America's wealthiest and best-known citizens managed to avoid paying almost any federal income taxes between 2014 and 2018.

June 9, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Treasury unveils plans to 'leverage finance institutions' info to target 'HNWIs' opaque income sources'

Hours before President Biden was set to deliver his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening in Washington, the U.S. Treasury was unveiling its plans for helping him finance some of his goals, in the form of a press release entitled "Investing in the IRS and…

April 29, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

The financial district of lower Manhattan

As expat small-biz owners struggle, new report shows dozens of U.S. multi-nationals paid $0 Fed taxes in 2020

Days after an American owner of a small business located outside of the U.S. lost his legal bid to fix what he said was the harsh and unfair treatment by President Trump's 2017 tax reform bill of small businesses like his, a new study reveals that at least 55 of…

April 2, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court rules against Monte Silver Transition Tax challenge

In a ruling that has surprised many in the expatriate American community, a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. has officially declared Tel Aviv-headquartered U.S. tax attorney Monte Silver and his company "lack constitutional standing to pursue their claims" – thus ending, at least for now, Silver's feisty effort to force the…

March 31, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Joint Tax Committee report: TCJA saw U.S. multinationals pay less tax, invest more

U.S. multinational companies paid significantly less U.S. corporate taxes in the wake of the coming into force of President Trump's 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, both domestically and abroad, according to a report published last week by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

March 25, 2021
Tax
By staff writer

New paper to show 'high-income US tax avoidance far larger than thought'

American households accounting for the top 1% in annual income are managing to avoid significantly more in income taxes than had been previously assumed, a research paper due to be released later today by the Internal Revenue Service and academics will reveal.

March 22, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Expat YouTube 'creators' stunned by YouTube tax announcement

YouTube, the giant, San Bruno, California-based online video-sharing platform, has stunned video content "creators" around the world with its announcement this week that it will soon begin to deduct taxes from their YouTube earnings for the first time, because its parent, Google LLC, says it must.

March 12, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

IRS: 'Cryptocurrency accounts to be included in FBAR reports'

The last few weeks have seen the price of Bitcoin soar, accompanied by a roar of commentary from those who see it, and other cryptocurrencies, as the future. This latest round of Bitcoin mania was kicked off earlier this month, when (Bitcoin fan) Elon Musk's car company, Tesla, announced in an…

February 23, 2021
Tax
By Allyson Lindsey

Online venue for this year's annual DJH International Tax Conference in February

For the first time since she began sponsoring her annual International Tax Conference in 2011, Deborah J. Hicks is arranging for the event to take place online this year, owing to the Covid pandemic, and consequent global lockdown.

February 1, 2021
Tax
By staff writer

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EU Data Protection Board to revisit FATCA data protection issues: Justice Commissioner Reynders

The EU's Data Protection Board is to "again look into" the degree to which the processing and transferring of the personal data of European citizens to the U.S. by EU countries, in compliance with the U.S. tax evasion prevention law known as FATCA, could violate the bloc's General Data Protection…

January 25, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Another U.S. court finds FBAR non-willful penalty 'per annual form' rather than per account

Another U.S. district court has found that "non-willful" FBAR penalties should be handed out on a "per annual form" basis rather than for each un-reported account over the minimum amount that the taxpayer in question held in various different bank accounts during the year, according to press reports and court…

January 21, 2021
Tax
By Helen Burggraf

Dems Abroad to host webinar on the second covid stimulus payments for expats

It's been reported that some American expats have already begun receiving the latest Economic Impact Payments that are being sent out now by the U.S. government, with the aim of helping U.S. citizens at home and abroad to cope with the economic consequences of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic...

January 5, 2021
Tax
By staff writer

Are the FBAR regs fit for purpose – FinCEN wants to know by next Friday

FinCEN, the U.S. Treasury Department bureau that's responsible for overseeing the receipt of Foreign Bank Account Reports, is inviting comments "on the proposed renewal, without change, of existing information collection requirements concerning reports of foreign financial accounts and... Report[s] of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR)".

January 5, 2021
Tax
By staff writer

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