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Introduction: It’s tax reform season and Senator Orrin Hatch wants to hear from you (again)
As reported on the Isaac Brock Society and other digital resources for those impacted by U.S. taxes, you have until July 17, 2017 to tell Senator Hatch what you think needs to be changed in the Internal Revenue Code. After great deliberation, it occurred to me that people who either are (or are accused of being) U.S. citizens or Green Card holders living outside the United States, might want the USA to stop taxing them. After all, they already pay taxes to the countries where they reside. This is your opportunity to “Let your voices be heard” (well maybe).

The Senate Finance Committee is yet again asking the general public to send comments on tax reform. The deadline is July 17, and the email address is taxreform2017@finance.senate.gov.
https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/hatch-calls-for-feedback-on-tax-reform

(July 17, 2017 is coming quickly. Please take a few moments to send your thoughts to Senator Hatch. Tell him you feel about FATCA, citizenship-based taxation, FBAR, etc.)
Speaking of “tax reform”: Introducing Jackie Bugion

Jackie Bugnion is a U.S. citizen who has lived in Switzerland for many many years. She has been a tireless advocate for “residence based taxation”. She worked with “American Citizens Abroad” for many years and has recently retired. She was recently honoured with the Eugene Abrams award by ACA – an event that was the subject of a post at the Isaac Brock Society – that described her many achievements (over a long career).
She was the principal organizer of the “Conference on Citizenship Taxation” which took place in Toronto, Canada in May of 2014. The Conference was widely discussed on the Isaac Brock Society here and here. The live video of the “Kirsch Schneider debate” is here.
I have reproduced a number of her written submissions and posts on this blog, specifically:

Jackie Bugnion – 2013 Submission to the House Ways and Means Committee – Explains the upcoming New American Revolution

2013 submission from @JackieBugnion to the House Ways and Means Committee – explains the "New American Revolution" https://t.co/csUxqFeqUn pic.twitter.com/azfw4jyCQz

— Citizenship Lawyer (@ExpatriationLaw) July 14, 2017

The submission referenced in the above tweet describes the history of the construction of the U.S. “fiscal prison” brick by legislative brick! (Forward it to anybody and everybody with a interest in this.)
Jackie has returned with her 2017 submission to Senator Hatch.
Jackie Bugnion – 2017 submission to Chairman Hatch – reproduced with permission of Jackie Bugnion

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#ESL Teachers who @TeachAbroad denied bank accounts bc of US citizenship! https://t.co/5Ou1QC9LiK

— Citizenship Lawyer (@ExpatriationLaw) March 20, 2016

The above tweet references a fascinating conversation on Reddit.
The conversation begins with:

Hey all, just got back from the Bank of China because I wanted to open an account to hopefully find some easier method of transferring money back home to the States (an entirely different fiasco for another time), but after the bank teller floundering around with his supervisor for a good hour and a half, they finally told me I couldn’t get a card today and would have to try again some other time, which they would call me and let me know. How nice of them.
This is already the second time I’ve tried to go and been turned away. The first time they told me I needed proof that I was actually employed in China (to which apparently my valid residence permit was not enough), and so in true Chinese fashion, I had my school simply write down on a piece of paper that I worked there and then stamp it. Good enough.
Anyway, they told me that today I couldn’t open up an account because their system is “complicated” and there are a number of other people with “similar names to mine” and their system is too slow to process it today. This is of course just a string of nonsense and I don’t see how it’s any form of excuse whatsoever. My buddy opened his account no problem, so I can’t decipher why my situation might be any different. Unless of course it’s because he’s Australian and I’m American, which is the only difference. On the forms you have to fill out, there’s a simple question that says to check if you’re American or not American, and I think this is what may have flagged my account. With everything going on in Beijing and tightening controls on VPNs at the moment, I can’t but help to think this is the reasoning behind the vague excuse. Anyone else experiencing similar problems?
TL;DR: went to Bank of China, couldn’t open an account right now, and I think it’s because I’m American.

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U.S. Citizens and Green Card Holders Residing in Canada and Abroad

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Jackie Bugnion 2017 Residence Based Taxation: To Chairman Hatch's request for tax reform proposals

Part 21: What God Hath Wrought – The #FATCA Inquisition (Review, Identify and Report on “U.S. Persons”) – #FATCA results in denial of bank accounts for #ESL Teachers who @TeachAbroad

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