At precisely the time when we are seeing multiple threats take shape against US election systems, whether in the form of hacking by foreign or domestic agents or of newly created constraints that limit access to the polls in one way or another, the one agency established to protect the integrity of those same systems is once again – this...

Celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), or just your right to vote, by registering now to ensure you can vote in US elections taking place in 2017. The next national election will be in 2018 – when the whole House of Representatives and one third of the Senate is up for election – but several special federal elections, and many...

Election Day 2016 is Tuesday, November 8. The law requires states to start sending out ballots 45 days before that –  September 24. You can still register to vote/request a ballot in late September and early October, but that reduces the time available both for your state to send you a ballot and for you to return it to be...

Celebrate the 4th of July by registering to vote in the 2016 U.S. elections! 

What better way to celebrate our country’s birth than to register to vote in the November elections, and to encourage and help other Americans to do so? 

The 4^th of July often means barbecue, watermelon and fireworks, but be sure to add to your celebration the...

LB&I “Overseas Filing for US Taxpayers” Webinar May 25

LB&I International Individual Compliance will present the...

Background – Revocation of passports of “delinquent taxpayers"

On December 4, 2015, HR 22, the “Highway Bill”, became Public Law N° 114-94.  Title XXXII, Subtitle A, “Offsets”, contains provisions for the denial of issuance or revocation of the passport of any individual who has a “seriously delinquent” tax debt of over $50,000.
It states that if notified by the Secretary...