The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

Otsuba Park, Osaka, Japan, June 2017 As I was doing my fieldwork in Japan I came across something that is referred to as the Sommers Hy...

No comments from me today.   I am sipping my morning coffee and will let Donna-Lane and others have the floor in this press conference video...

"The other day I was speaking of the soldiers in the fight against FATCA and citizenship-based taxation.  Meet Daniel Kuettel and Donna...

The US Foreign Bank Account Report (known as the FBAR) is an annual report that Americans and Green Card holders must file if they have mor...

For those of you who didn't get the memo the United States has a  little special something for its compatriots living outside the US:   ...

The International Tax Review has included Professor Allison Christians (H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law at McGill University) in their 2...

May I call your attention to an excellent summary of the various anti-FATCA initiatives being served by a restaurant near you? In his post...

Yesterday, representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (Democrat-New York) and Mike Honda (Democrat-California) issued a press release about their b...

Trust the Brockers to come up with something brilliant. A few days ago the International Tax Bipartisan Tax Working Group Report was publ...

Americans divided by a common language. When Americans abroad talk international tax reform, they mean an end to citizenship-based taxati...

"And it came to passe in those dayes, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed..." L...

It was with mixed feelings that I watched John Oliver's  defense of the US Internal Revenue Service on his show  Last Week Tonight . F...

In response to those articles touting FATCA as "Tax Justice", the incomparable Lynne Swanson of Maple Sandbox and I wrote an op-e...

Stephen Mopsick has reposted an article by Charles Bruce of American Citizens Abroad  (ACA) proposing that the US "Treasury Department...

These days countries all around the world are agreeing to Automatic Information Exchange systems to share taxpayer information with each oth...

This CNN Money article,  You've never seen IRS penalties like these ,   is enough to stop your heart if you are an immigrant in the US, ...

A few days ago Ms. Rebecca Wilkins, executive director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition, wrote an ill-co...

The American Diaspora Tax War continues.  Nearly five years after President Obama signed the HIRE Act and the now infamous Foreign Account T...

The Name and Shame List of US citizens renouncing US citizenship just came out yesterday and looks like 2014 was an outstanding year for o...