The United States National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has released her Annual Report for 2014 and, in Legislative Recommendation #6, advocates reducing the burden of filing a report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and improving the corresponding civil penalty structure.  She refers directly to the “unintended consequence of the civil FBAR penalty regime, which is designed to address...

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Tuesday April 14, 2015

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

FAWCO's partner organization ACA, Inc. (Americans Citizens Abroad) has launched the first-ever online Directory of tax return preparers and others servicing Americans overseas.  After an initial listing of 106 Preparers, the total number stands today at nearly 1800.  This innovative new Directory serves Americans overseas and others needing specialized US tax and similar advice.

The Directory is easily found at http://www.acareturnpreparerdirectory.com,

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...

The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel, or TAP, is comprised of approximately 80 members from across the United States, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and now an international representative, who volunteer to serve a three-year term.

Shelby Lyon is the new TAP member for international taxpayers and can be contacted at . Volunteers generally spend between 200 and 300...

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...