This post appeared on the RenounceUScitizenship blog.
Responding to terrorism – A wonderful article
Opposite of Terror on.natgeo.com/14SMUnB – Orwellian acronym for “transportation security” doesn't protect from, but creates terror!—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) June 11, 2013
Does the obsession with “terror” actually create terror?
The article referenced in the above tweet is a “Must Read” for all. To whet your appetite it includes:
#americansabroad : "me and UK husband paid 40% of life saving to bring me into US compliance. divorce threatened" isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/06/04/fea…—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) June 05, 2013
What if the US wants you returned to the Homeland? The conventional wisdom is that there is not much the US can do if you are not within their borders. This is a complicated question. There are at least two issues:
Assuming a violation of U.S. law, under what circumstances will an extradition treaty provide for extradition to the U.S.?
Lawyer: Becoming more likely that US gov can extradite people back to the US for tax crimes blogs.angloinfo.com/us-tax/2013/06… – #FATCA enforcement—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) June 04, 2013
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
Reports of #IRS abuse of #americansaborad isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/05/25/rep… – Homelanders would not believe this was possible! Its a #FATCA – #FBAR 2—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) May 27, 2013
The following comes from a post at the Isaac Brock Society.
Future generations will visit the #PFIC memorial in Washington – a monument to the destruction of #americansabroad isaacbrocksociety.ca/2013/04/17/exc…—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) April 24, 2013
I have never met a Homelander who would believe the story referenced in this tweet.
Q. What do the U.S. and Eritra have in common?
A. They both terrorize their citizens abroad.
@USCitizenAbroad Answer must be Congressional ignorance of the facts. Any other reason is too terrible to contemplate.—
Peter Dahlen (@peterdahlen) March 02, 2013
@uscitizenabroad Don't know Nunes. @ACAVoice is doing great work educating (which is lobbying at its core) Congress. ow.ly/icT3U—
Peter Dahlen (@peterdahlen) March 02, 2013
This post is a “follow up” to an earlier post called: “Why are we so cruel to U.S. citizens living abroad.” That post also referenced the above Twitter Exchange. That post included the following poll:
The preceding twitter exchange identified at least part of the reason for citizenship-based taxation as “Congressional ignorance”. The exchange also referenced the need to get the message to the Ways and Means Committee. With the help of the advocacy of American Citizens Abroad and others Congress received many submissions on the topic of citizenship based taxation. Thanks to AbusedExpat for taking the time to transcribe excerpts from the submissions in comments starting here.
As Patrick Henry notes the comment from Jackie Bugnion of ACA rated a 10 on the “emotion scale” and was a true “Declaration of Independence” for Americans Abroad. Patrick Henry comments that:
On March 24, 2013 it was announced that Cyprus will indeed confiscate deposits in private bank accounts to save Cyprus. In other words, the saves will pay for the sins of the debtors.
Cyprus reaches last-minute deal but can’t save second-largest bank thestar.com/news/world/201… – One more attack on the savers—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) March 25, 2013
Making the virtue of “saving” pay for the sin of “borrowing”
Cyprus confiscates money in savings accounts – who could have known? sovereignman.com/finance/this-c…—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) March 18, 2013
Second Thoughts in Europe as Fear Spreads in Cyprus nyti.ms/15WtkcM—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) March 19, 2013
Confiscation of assets is a direct attack on the principle of saving!
If you haven’t heard by now, Cyprus has announced the direct confiscation of money in its citizens bank accounts. The announcement was made on a Saturday when the banks were closed. The banks remain closed for a bank “holiday” and the only issue is how and what percent of people’s “after tax” savings will be confiscated from them. As one commentator has suggested Cyprus appears to employing a (contextually) clever “divide and conquer” technique – turning citizens against each other. Those with fewer savings will have less stolen from them and those with more savings will have more stolen from them. What could be more just than that?
The title of this post was a Google search term that led to a number of hits. A search on Bing led to an equally impressive number of hits. (Note that each search revealed results for “why we are so cruel to us citizen living abroad“.) Fascinating question. How can this be? Why is this so?
Exile the American Way bit.ly/XkaXcQ What do U get for membership in the Tax, Form and Penalty Club that the blue passport represents—
Marvin Van Horn (@FATCA_Fallout) February 06, 2013
Brilliant tweet referencing brilliant article. Highly recommended!
Some other tweets capturing the reality of U.S. citizenship:
A CLN is the new "Get out of jail free card" for #americansabroad maplesandbox.ca/fatca-final-re…—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) January 18, 2013
@nobledreamer16 A CLN is priceless. For everything else there is Mastercard. #americansabroad #FATCA #FBAR—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) January 19, 2013
Green card holders, U.S. citizenship and adventures in #FBAR renounceuscitizenship.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/mor…—
U.S. Citizen Abroad (@USCitizenAbroad) January 29, 2013
Amy Feldman has written a second article:
“The Perils of Overseas Tax Disclosure: An Immigrant’s Story“
It features more adventures in FBAR. It also raises the issue of the (possible) relationship between FBAR compliance and becoming a U.S. citizen.
Here are some comments from another blog
