Sunday, June 15, 2014

This Week at McGill Law: Tax Justice and Human Rights Symposium #TJHR

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This week I am so pleased to welcome to the McGill Faculty of Law an international group of students, academics, researchers, and activist...

IBFD Seeking two Tax Research Fellows

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This is a great opportunity and an interesting project: IBFD, a European publisher well known for its tax research and publishing, has two p...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

The World According to FATCA, In 3 Maps

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As of 8 June 2014, this is the world according to FATCA : Countries that have actually signed an intergovernmental agreement. Count...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Koskinen: Tough as Nails on Individuals; Cautious and Worrisome on US Multinationals

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Further to the last post, below are the full remarks from Commissioner Koskinen, with a few key remarks in bold. The remar...
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IRS to Unveil Compliance Program for U.S. Expats Not Willfully Evading Taxes

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From Lydia Beloud at Bloomberg's Daily Tax RealTime: U.S. citizens abroad who are noncompliant with their tax obligations but aren...
Friday, May 23, 2014

It Isn't Just about Greece: Domestic Politics, Transparency and Fiscal Gimmickry in Europe

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Here is an interesting article  by James Alt, David Dreyer Lassen and Joachim Wehner that might help explain why it's hard for governmen...

Partnerships and the problem of Inversions

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The Levin brothers (one in Senate, one in the house), have proposed a bill to increase the possibility for tax penalties for companies tha...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

New GAO Report on Exemption for Foreign Earnings of Nonresident "US Persons"

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The GAO likes to call the foreign earned income exemption a tax expenditure, on grounds that a deviation from the norm of income inclusion i...
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Friday, May 9, 2014

Are Sole Executive Agreements Next on the Roberts Court Chopping Block?

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Peter Spiro has a post up over at opinio juris on a pending US constitutional challenge to FATCA, of interest. No surprise, I agree with hi...
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Next Tuesday: Appearance at Parliamentary Committee on Finance to Discuss FATCA

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I will appear in front of the Standing Committee on Finance to discuss Canada's undertakings with respect to FATCA as presented in Bill...
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It's like the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing

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But that might be too charitable. Global business tax clamp-down could sting U.S. -IRS official The FATCA Tax Hunt is for Anyone – not j...
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Monday, May 5, 2014

Ireland To Analyse Tax System's Impact on Developing Nations

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This is a story to watch : Ireland is going to "review the impact its tax system may have on the economies of developing countries...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

FATCA non-delay delay

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Treasury playing a little game here: keep driving forward yet refrain from actually imposing FATCA's sanctions, except in those  coun...