The Impact of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)

FATCA, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, targets those who evade paying taxes by hiding assets in undisclosed foreign bank accounts but negatively impacts and penalizes American citizens overseas and US economic interests.

FATCA requires Foreign Financial Institutions (FFIs) to provide annual reports to the IRS, either directly or through...

According to the post-election survey conducted by FAWCO partner Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF), the overseas voting process was clearly improved in the first full federal election since passage of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act of 2009.

An article by Brian Knowlton in the New York Times shows that while a little over 20% of UOCAVA voters were...

Two members of the Americans Abroad Caucus (Representatives Mike Honda of California and Carolyn Maloney of New York) have been joined by Representative Jim McDermott of Washington in requesting that the U.S. Government Accountability Office conduct a review of the potential impacts of any reduction in or elimination of current I.R.S provisions for exclusion of foreign-earned income and housing costs...

The overseas American community has lost a great friend and champion, the kind of man we encounter only rarely in our lives.

Andy Sundberg, founder of the Children’s Citizens Rights League in 1977 and American Citizens Abroad in 1978, Secretary of the Overseas Americans Academy, indefatigable researcher and prolific writer, died on Thursday, August 30.  He is being referred to...

The Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) is the document with which military and overseas voters register to vote and request their ballots.

A new version of this form was introduced for the 2012 election which raised concerns with many voters  (see earlier article on this here).  In response to requests from state and local election officials, the new form explicitly...

Two recent announcements from Washington, one from IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman, and one from Pamela Mitchell, Acting Director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program, appear to signal a new awareness of the realities of the overseas American population.

On June 26,  Commissioner Shulman announced new procedures to take effect on September 1, 2012, to make compliance easier for delinquent overseas...