
More And More Americans Abroad Are Renouncing Their Citizenship
Doing So Is Tougher Than Ever, So Why Are More Americans Renouncing Citizenship In Record…
Doing So Is Tougher Than Ever, So Why Are More Americans Renouncing Citizenship In Record…
Foreign financial institutions still scrambling to get their books in order can take a temporary…
The Philippine Department of Finance announced July 13 that a deal has been reached with…
India has become the latest lackey to sign on to the United States’ extraterritorial FATCA…
IRS budget cuts have led to declines in taxpayer services, tax case closures, and collections…
The British Virgin Islands FATCA deadline for compliance has been extended by order of the…
More than 100,000 taxpayers had their tax information stolen in a recent IRS theft, according…
Corporate taxes in Costa Rica could be going up. The Costa Rican government is expected…
Tax fraud is estimated to be a multibillion-dollar industry in the United States, but so…
Ecuador announced last week that as of March 11 it will impose tariffs of 5%…
If you’re an American, it’s that time of year again. Time to begin preparing to…
Can you eliminate your U.S. tax burden by retiring overseas? No, you can’t. It’s not…
Administering your offshore life isn’t sexy, but it is necessary. As I write, I’m sitting…
Lots of people in the offshore world are talking about China finally enforcing its global…
After the recent full-implementation of FATCA in the United States, China is following suit by…
Last week’s Taxation 101 (Where To Live Tax-Free) essay was well received but raised lots…
A reader wrote this week to say, “Lief, whenever you mention the countries that tax…
London’s American-born mayor, Boris Johnson, is locking horns with the IRS, refuting the tax-collection agency’s…
Fifty-one countries have signed an OECD tax deal on the collection and exchange of tax…
The IRS is in the news again, this time for confiscating the bank accounts of…
Many expats rely on Amazon and mail forwarding services for creature comforts from home. Many…
Costa Rica’s President Luis Guillermo Solis raised some eyebrows on the weekend when he mentioned…
The unintended consequences of FATCA and the overreach of the U.S. government and the IRS…
A reader got in touch last week to ask about the “new” Puerto Rican tax…
A recent report from Taxpayers for Common Sense reveals that from 2009 through 2013 the…
The extrajurisdictional U.S. tax law, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), has caused distress…
The Internal Revenue Service has announced they are delaying the enforcement of certain requirements of…
An increasing amount of U.S. citizens abroad are renouncing their citizenship. The Federal Register released the…
The IRS is desperately attempting to collect back taxes through the dubious practice of seizing…
A reporter from the mainstream press contacted me recently asking if I could introduce him…
Late December we were all recovering from Christmas and preparing for New Year’s, the guy…
Brenna LaBine – Publisher Kathleen Peddicord and her husband, international investment expert Lief Simon have…
Brenna LaBine – You may know them for their larger than life antics, or, perhaps their…
Lucy Culpepper -“Residence-based taxation (RBT) is the only way forward to keep America and Americans…
The Economic Times – The decision was not easy for the Gulf War veteran. After…
Dennis Foynes – The world’s so-called tax havens have come under increasing scrutiny from politicians…
Lucy Culpepper – President Hollande of France announced on French TV channel M6 that he…
Denis Foynes – Barcelona footballing superstar, Lionel Messi and his father are being investigated in…
Lucy Culpepper – Earlier this month, the UK’s Finance Minister George Osborne announced that the…
French President François Hollande has stated that there is “a need for a relentless battle…
If your priority is to pay low taxes then you may want to avoid these…
For weeks there had been rumors that famous French actor Gerard Depardieu was going to…
French President Francois Hollande suffered a setback last month when his tax plan was ruled…
Michael Schumacher, despite having a net worth of €626 million and recently building a mansion…
The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean and a major world…
After four days of debate French lawmakers have approved François Hollande’s new socialist government’s supplementary…
I’d say that a second passport is a more critical piece of your global diversification…
The stated purpose of the IRS is to collect a fair and proper tax from…
We’ve been reporting on the 2010 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requirements since the…
It seems the United States isn’t the only country going to extremes in its effort…