• Updated Periodic Review and Certification FAQ and the
  Contributed by Comply Exchange
  Friday, April 12, 2019

  Any Qualified Intermediaries (QIs), Withholding Foreign Partnerships (WPs), or Withholding Foreign Trusts (WTs) that, according to their agreements with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), have chosen a periodic review year prior to 2019, and tax advisors seeking to provide these services and reports, will be interested in the newly published IRS Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding independence standards on this review...
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• Updated FATCA FAQs and Certification Reminders!
  Contributed by Comply Exchange
  Wednesday, March 20, 2019

  Any financial institution with an obligation to report under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will be interested in recently published answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...
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• Americans abroad need tax justice too
  Contributed by Lynne Swanson and Victoria Ferauge, first published in 'The Hill'
  Wednesday, May 13, 2015

  "Why are we doing this to folks? Why are we tormenting them in this way?" IRS Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson asked in an address to Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association FATCA Policy Symposium in Washington last year.
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• Making Citizenship-Based Taxation Reform Easy
  Contributed by Lynne Swanson, first published in 'Tax Connections'
  Wednesday, May 13, 2015

  Heitor David Pinto wants to "make it easy" for Congress to move from citizenship-based taxation (CBT) to residence-based taxation (RBT)...
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• USA Went To War With UK Over Taxing...See The Irony
  Contributed by Lynne Swanson
  Friday, November 28, 2014

  London Mayor Boris Johnson has a taxing problem. The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants Mayor Johnson to help fund that country’s massive deficit...
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