Some U.S. Persons abroad are more equal than others
Despite half-hearted calls for tax reform which might fix the increasingly ridiculous consequences of the U.S.’ drive to tax its Persons and make them file forms wherever they go on the planet,...
View ArticleHomelanders propose raising taxes on US Persons abroad to pay for...
In case you hadn’t already figured it out, this is the shape of things to come for U.S. Persons abroad: relentless bipartisan attacks on the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion in the name of “simplifying...
View ArticleFEIE expansion proponent Jim DeMint (R-SC) stepping down from Senate seat
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Jim DeMint will step down from his position as junior senator from South Carolina to become the head of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. For...
View ArticleYet another attempt to kill the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion in the name...
With the 113th Congress in full swing, Dennis Ross (R-FL) has introduced H.R. 243, the so-called “Bowles-Simpson Plan of Lowering America’s Debt Act”. This is basically the same as the bill he...
View ArticleCongressional Progressive Caucus also taking aim at Foreign Earned Income...
Joining Dennis Ross (R-FL) and his recycled plan to raise taxes and pile paperwork on U.S. Persons abroad to pay for tax cuts for Homeland corporations, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has...
View ArticleChildren of immigrants to America denounce children of immigrants to Canada...
The Government Printing Office has finally published the 284 pages of the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ bill we discussed earlier this month. For those who don’t recall, this bill includes...
View ArticleForeign Earned Income Exclusion on the chopping block again
As part of their newly-published paper on “Options for Reducing the Deficit“, the Congressional Budget Office has suggested, as Option 12 (at page 130), to “Include All Income That U.S. Citizens Earn...
View ArticleLatest Foreign Earned Income Exclusion statistics: in five years, IRS...
Via TaxProf Blog, we learn that the IRS has released its annual report on Individual Income Tax Returns, 2012. Page 9 has statistics on Foreign Earned Income Exclusion usage, from which we can...
View ArticleHouse removes DATCA & passport revocation from trade bills
Good news on passport revocation: the House rejected the Senate version of H.R. 644 (Trade Facilitation & Trade Enforcement Act, a.k.a. the “customs bill”) and substituted it with their own...
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Coalition Supports RBT – Letter to Ways & Means & Senate Finance Committee
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