FAWCO salutes National Taxpayer Advocate recommendations on FBAR & FATCA

On April 13, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson issued recommendations fully in line with those of the AARO-FAWCO position paper in March 2015 with respect to financial account reporting and the “same country exception” that we have advocated for several years.

Specifically, Ms Olson recommends that:

·       filing of FATCA Form 8938 not be required of taxpayers who have timely filed FinCEN...

Taxpayer Advocate: Most Serious Problems & Recommendations

In her Annual Report to Congress for 2014, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson addresses certain issues (her "Most Serious Problems") and makes certain Legislative Recommendations specifically related to overseas taxpayers.

We need actively to support her recommendations that seek to alleviate both the loss of access to IRS service abroad and the excessive burden of our mandatory filing of a...

National Taxpayer Advocate on reducing FBAR filing burden

FREE Webinar on US Expat Tax Compliance

A FREE Webinar by Greenback Expat Tax Services created exclusively for FAWCO members!

Tuesday April 14, 2015

8 AM New York
9 AM Buenos Aires
1 PM London
2 PM Paris
8 PM Singapore

With the hundreds of US tax code changes every year, how is an expat expected to keep up with all of their US...

New Resource: Tax Preparer Directory

Respond to Senate Finance Comm. (by April 15)