If you are tired of the USA’s FBAR, Citizenship-Based Taxation (CBT), and FATCA—this is YOUR place.
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Reblogged this on U.S. Persons Abroad – Members of a Unique Tax, Form and Penalty Club and commented:
Welcome to a new blogger on FBAR, FATCA and the other ways that the U.S. the sovereignty of other countries through it’s uniquely oppressive taxation practices.
No wonder that the motto of Americans abroad is:
Renounce and Rejoice!
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I love the whole concept of this site and hope it gets many contributions. The first one from the retired teacher in Italy is extremely compelling, as are so many other stories I have read at sites like the Isaac Brock Society. Will you eventually be able to provide a linked index on your home page to make it easier to access the contributions as they continue to come in?
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Who are pushing these laws and ideas ? What do they want from us the average middle class who want to improve our life and our children’s life ? We are not the 1% !
We want to work, we want to expand but all these laws are killing us. We are throwing tons of money at lawyers and accountants just to stay comply with these ambiguous laws.
Is it better to just sit at home, watch TV, wait for food stamps and blame everything on the 1 % or .001 % ? No.
We want to work hard, we want to be the .001%.
We don’t need more regulations. We don’t want to pay hard earned money to more and more consultants to interpret laws for us.
We don’t want politicians to protect us from the rich as we all want to be RICH!
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Planning ahead: difficult cases in expatriation of U.S. citizenship for those with diminished mental capacity. What if you or your family member would not qualify for expatriation?
I saw posted here a “planning ahead” question relating to taking into account US citizenship of a prospective spouse before your marriage in a country outside the US (and perhaps even within the US if you as a couple or a family would ever plan to live in another country than the US). Due diligence is better before walking down the aisle than finding out about how you will be caught up in matters of US citizenship-based taxation afterwards. A couple planning a wedding will not find this at all romantic or may not think that it would matter, but they will one day be glad they planned ahead — whatever the decision about the actual marriage. Besides good communication skills, solid financial planning is necessary to protect your assets going into a marriage, as well as those resulting from joining financial accounts with your US spouse-to be. That prompted me to remind persons of another important area in which to think and plan ahead:
We would not readily think about what happens as we or a family member age with an unfortunate mental incapacity caused by aging, by stroke or some accident that results in a brain injury. I have often considered how I could possibly cope with the complexity of U.S. tax compliance, to say nothing of the continued and increasing costs for help with that compliance year after year, if I had not renounced my U.S. citizenship.
From: 7 FAM 1290 MINORS, INCOMPETENTS , PRISONERS, PLEA BARGAINS, CULTS AND OTHER SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES (CT:CON – 4 49; 03 – 25 – 2013 ) (Office of Origin: CA/OCS/L)
From: Executive Summary: ASSESSMENT of Older Adults WITH DIMINISHED CAPACITY: A Handbook for Lawyers
From: Obtaining and Terminating U.S. Citizenship and Preserving and Terminating U.S. Green Cards, Steve Trow (Trow & Rahal, P.C.) November 2012
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London Mayor Boris Johnson was born in NY. He said on radio, he is not going to pay any Fatca related taxes. He is our hero !!!.
May be President Obama should pay Kenya’s taxes since his father is from Kenya.
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Reblogged this on Café Moi.
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