Under the US tax system, US persons - citizens, green card holders and residents - are required to file annual US income tax returns reporting worldwide income.
It is a legal obligation to ensure that “true and accurate” returns are filed with the IRS in a timely way to avoid risks of numerous penalties and, potentially, criminal prosecution.
The IRS is...
Overseas Americans are invited to step up and be counted at http://counting-citizens-
FAWCO partner OVF has just issued its post-election survey on the 2010 U.S. federal elections, with the first look at how voters fared in the first test of the landmark MOVE Act, passed in 2009. It is clear that, despite the lower voter turnout often found in “mid-term elections”, voters had an easier time of it, essentially due to MOVE-related...
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FAWCO partner Overseas Vote Foundation is again conducting a survey of U.S.citizens overseas and in the military who voted in the November 2 election, wanted to vote but couldn't, or didn't vote for reasons of their own.
This year, their survey is even more important than in 2008, because of the landmark Military and...
Studies* have shown that, in 2006, only 25% of military and overseas voters who requested a ballot completed and returned one and 1/5 of all ballots cast by military service members were rejected. In 2008**, more than one in five (22%) of voters surveyed did not receive the official ballot they expected and nearly one-third (31%) of experienced overseas voters...
While Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul are without question the principals in the story of women’s suffrage in the United States, many other women played important and prominent roles in the effort. This article does not pretend to be complete, but it will provide the reader with a sense...