By Fiona Moore, for ExpatBriefing.com, 04 October, 2017
American Citizens Abroad, an advocacy group for American expats, has released "refined" proposals for residency-based taxation for American citizens receiving income from overseas. Read full story »
Tags: individuals | expatriates | tax | tax avoidance | interest | retirement | legislation | gift tax | United States | tax reform | Expats
By by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington, 09 June, 2017
Americans for Tax Reform has urged the Ways and Means Committee to include residence-based taxation for overseas Americans in an eventual tax reform package. Read full story »
Tags: individuals | expatriates | compliance | Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) | tax | FATCA | Internal Revenue Service (IRS) | legislation | United States | tax reform | Compliance | Expats | Tax
By Hans Esser, for ExpatBriefing.com, 22 March, 2017
American Citizens Abroad, a US expat advocacy group, is calling on Congress to legislate for residence-based taxation for overseas Americans. Read full story »
Tags: individuals | tax | Eritrea | Expat Groups | United States | tax reform | Expats | Africa
By Fiona Moore, for ExpatBriefing.com, 22 March, 2017
Americans for Tax Reform has urged Congressional lawmakers to include the repeal the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act in ongoing tax reform talks. Read full story »
Tags: expatriates | compliance | Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) | tax | investment | small business | business | FATCA | legislation | withholding tax | United States | tax reform | Compliance | Tax
By Hans Esser, for ExpatBriefing.com, 08 December, 2016
In a recent proposal, American Citizens Abroad has set out a detailed description of its proposal for the enactment of residency-based taxation, rather than the existing citizenship-based taxation system, for American expats. Read full story »
Tags: individuals | expatriates | inheritance tax | compliance | tax | tax compliance | gift tax | United States | tax reform | individual income tax | Expats | Tax
By Mike Godfrey, for ExpatBriefing.com, 14 June, 2016
With regard to the increasing talk in the US Congress on tax reform, American Citizens Abroad has provided the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee with a full reform proposal for the enactment of residence-based taxation for American expatriates. Read full story »
Tags: expatriates | compliance | tax | business | tax compliance | interest | royalties | law | Internal Revenue Service (IRS) | withholding tax | gift tax | United States | dividends | tax reform | exit tax | trade | Tax
By Robert Lee, Tax-News.com, London, 05 January, 2015
The changes to the UK stamp duty regime announced in December's Autumn Statement may help stimulate domestic housing market activity, according to the Nationwide Building Society. Read full story »
Tags: tax | banking | real-estate | United Kingdom | tax thresholds | tax rates | stamp duty | revenue statistics | tax reform | Expats | Investment | Invest | Investment | Tax | Scotland
By Fiona Moore, for ExpatBriefing.com, 30 July, 2014
A UK accountancy firm has warned that proposals to limit the personal tax allowance for non-UK residents may leave British employees who are seconded abroad "significantly worse off." It said expats, including retirees, may have to rearrange their financial affairs to avoid losing out. Read full story »
Tags: Finance | tax | tax reform | individual income tax | Expats | Pensions | Personal Finance | Working Abroad | Work | Working Abroad | Pensions | Working Abroad
By ExpatBriefing.com Editorial, 16 June, 2014
The Heritage Foundation has issued a report to demonstrate how the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is hurting Americans living abroad, and has recommended that it should be reformed. Read full story »
Tags: compliance | Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) | tax | tax compliance | FATCA | law | financial services | insurance | trusts | enforcement | agreements | legislation | United States | tax reform | regulation | individual income tax | services | Compliance | Expats | Tax
By ExpatBriefing.com Editorial, 26 May, 2014
The Government Accountability Office has found that it is unclear whether the foreign earned income exclusion, claimed by United States taxpayers living and working abroad, provides any net economic benefits. Read full story »
Tags: individuals | tax | United States | tax breaks | tax reform | individual income tax | Expats