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(Somewhat) Good News for U.S. Citizens Seeking Offshore Banking Solutions

U.S. investors investing offshore for the first time often wonder why offshore banks won’t accept them as clients.

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Your Money Isn’t Safe in any U.S. Financial Institution

In August 2011, encouraged by friends who I thought knew much more about these sorts of things than I do, ...

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Hungary Now Imposes Tax on non-Resident Citizens

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And with governments in almost every country desperately seeking new revenues, it was ...

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Feds: We No Longer Need Your Circumcision Records to Renew Your Passport

Last year, I wrote about a new State Department “Biographical Questionnaire” (Form DS-5513) that, if approved, you ...

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Transporting Precious Metals Yourself

In my last post, I wrote that there are two sets of rules with which you must ...

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The Belize Alternative

I've spent the last week in Belize. While I've never been before, I've learned a great deal about this fascinating ...

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Appeals Court Weakens “Willfulness” Defense in Failure to File Foreign Account Reporting Forms

What standard of proof does the IRS have to demonstrate in order impose the most severe civil or criminal penalties ...

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Blowback from U.S. Role as Global Tax Cop

Over the last two years, I've written extensively about a U.S. law enacted in 2010. It's called the "Foreign Account ...

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Mark Nestmann’s Escape From America—The Second Passport, Expatriation, and International Tax Plannin

October 26-27, 2012

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Former U.S. Citizens Face Visa Discrimination Returning to the USA

The numbers of U.S. citizens and long-term residents "expatriating"—i.e., giving up U.S. citizenship or long-term permanent residence status—is skyrocketing. Official ...

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IRS Clarifies Offshore Investment Reporting Rules Again

You have to credit the folks at the IRS for their ironic sense of humor. On June 20, 2012, the ...

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Feds Revoke Citizenship at Border, Then Deny U.S. Nationality

Can the U.S. government force you to sign a document that strips you of your nationality? Longstanding legal precedent says ...

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Look to Europe for America’s Future

Austerity measures in France, Greece, and Spain demanded by these countries' creditors have spurred unemployment, cuts in pension costs, and ...

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When the USA Rejects Your Expatriation

While you have an absolute right to give up your U.S. citizenship, you must make your intention to expatriate crystal-clear.

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FATCA: Big Brother Goes Global

Sometimes people ask what I fear most. My answer isn't really what they expect.

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US Citizenship and Tax Consequences

If you're a U.S. citizen or long-term permanent resident ("green card" holder), you have a unique responsibility: you must pay ...

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Congress to U.S. Citizens: Pay Your Income Tax or Forfeit Your Passport

One of the strongest enforcement mechanisms any government has over its citizens is to restrict their ability to travel internationally.

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Finally: Definitive Guidance from the IRS on Offshore Account Reporting

A U.S. law with the Orwellian name of the "Bank Secrecy Act" requires U.S. citizens and permanent residents to report ...

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What is a Black Passport? What About White and Gray?

Every country has a path to naturalization through its constitution and law of nationality. In most countries, eligibility for citizenship ...

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The Four-Phase Plan to Disconnect from the United States

Chris Martenson at Chrismartenson.com recently commissioned me to write an article on expatriation to be posted on ...

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The Taxpayer Advocate Service and the IRS

Occasionally, the U.S. Congress discovers to its great surprise that the agency it created to collect revenues for the federal ...

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Form 8938: Another Nail in the Coffin of Offshore Financial Privacy [Part II]

In my last blog entry , I discussed the newest U.S. government escalation in the War Against Financial Privacy: Form ...

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Form 8938: Another Nail in the Coffin of Offshore Financial Privacy [Part I]

Are you a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident alien who held assets outside the USA at any time during 2011? ...

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Live Offshore and Earn Nearly $200,000 Annually, Tax-Free

The United States is one of the very few countries, and the only major country, that taxes its citizens, no ...

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Can Obama Send U.S. Citizens to Guantanamo Bay?

The blogosphere has been humming the last couple of weeks with condemnation of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. This ...

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Another “Tax Attack” on U.S. Citizens Living Abroad

The United States is one of only two countries, and the only major country, that taxes its citizens, no matter ...

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USA to Non-Resident Citizens: “Pay Up, or Face the Consequences” (Part II)

Approximately seven million U.S. citizens live overseas. And while most of them don’t realize it, they’re subject to the same ...

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History of Civil Forfeiture in the US: The War on Your Wealth

“A man’s home may be his castle, but that does not keep the government from taking it.”

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Vernon Jacobs, R.I.P.

I just learned Monday that CPA Vernon Jacobs died last Friday after an unsuccessful battle with esophageal cancer.

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U.S. Treasury: We Won’t Tell You What’s Reportable

If you move cash or other "monetary instruments" across a U.S. border, you may be required to tell the U.S. ...

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