On March 8, International Women's Day, two members of the Americans Abroad Caucus, Co-Chair Carolyn Maloney of New York and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, introduced a Resolution in the House of Representatives calling for the ratification of CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Said Maloney, “This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the...

We have learned to our distress that the last of the international offices of the Internal Revenue Service will be closed before the end of this year.  This means that all overseas Americans (and non-Americans residing abroad) who are under the obligation to file a U.S. tax declaration (whether or not they owe taxes) will have to contact the Philadelphia...

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In remarks before the U.S. Council for International Business-OECD International Tax Conference on June 3, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen recognized that the “voluntary disclosure” programs designed to punish tax fraud may have been “too focused on those willfully evading their tax obligations (and) not accommodating enough to others who don’t necessarily need protection from criminal prosecution because their compliance failures...

It’s back!  The 2014 FAWCO-OVF website for user-friendly voter registration is on a computer near you…

Once again this year, we are proud to announce that, thanks to our long-standing partner Overseas Vote Foundation, military and overseas voters can register to vote and request their ballots directly from the FAWCO website, using the latest secure technology and benefiting from access...

When was the last time you visited your Congressperson?

Are you going to be in your "hometown" this summer, i.e. your voting district?  Ever thought about going to your Congressperson's “district” office (which is just as good as going to the DC office)?   Well, why would you want to do that?

In addition to a new experience (for you,