{"id":4733,"date":"2017-08-31T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.40.31.108\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2017-08-31T10:07:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:07:47","slug":"current-developments-of-fatca-democrats-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/current-developments-of-fatca-democrats-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Current developments of FATCA. Democrats Abroad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FATCA Constitutional Challenge loses its appeal in the Sixth Circuit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democrats Abroad have been following the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FATCA (Crawford et al vs Department of Treasury) as it winds its way through the federal judicial system.\u00a0 In April 2016 the lawsuit was dismissed by a US District Court for lack of standing (ie the plaintiffs had not suffered injury due to the enforcement of FATCA).\u00a0 On 18 August the appeals court affirmed the lower court\u2019s ruling.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.international-adviser.com\/news\/1037662\/legal-challenge-fatca-shut-us-appeals-court\">This is a good layman\u2019s explanation of the decision.<\/a> The Crawford lawyer, Jim Bopp (of Citizens United fame), has promised to bring the case to the US Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Residency Based Taxation \u2013 new research project coming next week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democrats Abroad thank all who supported the <strong>Residency Based Taxation Congressional Call Storm<\/strong> back in June.\u00a0 Their work contributed to a widespread effort to capitalise on the opportunity they have to see this important reform built into a Congressional tax reform package.\u00a0\u00a0 In the next week Democrats Abroad will launch <strong>a new global research project<\/strong>; they will use the findings to help persuade Congress that it is time to end Citizenship Based Taxation and remedy the many very serious problems the US tax code creates for Americans who live abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The survey invites Americans abroad to provide either general or very specific comments, concerns or complaints about their experience filing and reporting from abroad.\u00a0 They hope to publish both data and stories that profile the areas of the tax code that discriminate against us and illustrate the extent to which our lives are impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact us at any time with questions or comments. info@ustaxconsultans.net +34 915194392<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FATCA Constitutional Challenge loses its appeal in the Sixth Circuit Democrats Abroad have been following the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FATCA (Crawford et al vs Department of Treasury) as it winds its way through the federal judicial system.\u00a0 In April 2016 the lawsuit was dismissed by a US District Court for lack of standing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatca","tag-democrats-abroad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}