US Tax & Banking Articles

On March 11, the Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) announced a bipartisan effort to begin soliciting ideas from interested members of the public and stakeholders on how best to overhaul the nation’s broken tax code to make it simpler, fairer, and more efficient.  Their goal is to provide additional input, data, and...

Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts Report (FBAR) - Due June 30

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In a nutshell - who must file an FBAR:  A United States person that has a financial interest in or signature authority over foreign financial accounts must file an FBAR if the aggregate...

Bank secrecy “obsolete”!

On October 29, 51 countries signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement, signaling their intent to "build a collective exchange of bank accounts, taxes, assets, and income held outside local tax jurisdictions.”  Among other things, the Agreement extends to corporations the kind of mandatory banking transparency called for under FATCA.

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It’s the talk of the town: whether the stories concern people losing access to financial services because of FATCA, scrambling to meet obligations they sometimes didn’t even know about, deciding how best to comply with those obligations without infuriating spouses or business partners, feeling adrift in a sea of incomprehensible instructions or frustrated that the mere fact of living abroad...

Recognizing, as announced on June 3, that there is a large population of Americans residing abroad who have been afraid to become “compliant” and honor mandatory tax and financial asset reporting requirements imposed by the US Internal Revenue Service, the IRS announced on June 18 “major changes in its offshore voluntary compliance programs, providing new options to help (…) taxpayers...