Keeping you up to date

Call to Action: Possible FATCA hearing
Must listen: Suzanne Iclef Herman discusses a possible Congressional hearing in regard to FATCA. Call to action for all to contact their Congressperson.

Our interview with CNBC
Over the last few months, I have been exchanging with Lorie Konish, a journalist of CNBC. From the questions that she was asking me, it seemed that Lorie wanted to get two things on the record. 1) Real people perspective on CBT, 2) her facts straight.

Petition to end Citizen-Based-Taxation
We are sponsoring a petition to go to all of Congress and the White House to end Citizen-Based Taxation. Please sign!

US Expats given one year reprieve from repatriation tax
After a great deal of pressure from expat groups, the IRS has allowed for a delay in paying the first year of Expat tax.

FATCA Developments in Europe
Karen Alpert from Fix the Tax Treaty offers some excellent insight on the EU petition to address issues with FATCA.

What would Meghan Markle’s “expat hell” letter from the IRS look like?
The reason why we need to collect this data is that we believe that anyone overseas with a bank account is a terrorist, money launderer, etc. Anyone else that would live overseas must have done so to avoid paying taxes. Why else would you run off and marry a Prince in a foreign country? Yes, we understand that your taxes are higher in the UK, but their taxes are not real taxes. Ours are – and you are avoiding ours, which you are never allowed to do.