With just two weeks to go before the start of the ADCS-ADSC FATCA lawsuit, U.S. based MLex reporter Paul Merrion has written a nice piece about our upcoming FATCA Canada lawsuit.
The court documents can be accessed on the ADCS-ADSC site. For those who are not up to speed on what has happened so far, you might reference the “FATCA Trial: Law Students Edition” which is found on the Alliance blog.
How we got there – Canada’s Standing Committee on Finance May 2014
2014 – You will see some familiar faces: "Standing Committee on Finance Meetings re #FATCA" https://t.co/9fDxWSSdcT via @YouTube
— John Richardson – lawyer for "U.S. persons" abroad (@ExpatriationLaw) January 15, 2019
2019 – The Trial Begins In the Federal Court of Canada – January 28, 2019
Mr. Merrion’s article contains a nice summary of the legal issues, the impact of the outcome of the decision, a description of the plaintiffs, a summary of the legal issues AND (by discussing Representative Holdings’s 2018 bill) an acknowledgement of the role of “citizenship based taxation”.
Discussion of @PMerrion @ADCSovereignty #FATCA Trial https://t.co/5omeRfdWOA pic.twitter.com/MdjiL1VXC4
— John Richardson – lawyer for "U.S. persons" abroad (@ExpatriationLaw) January 15, 2019
You can read his article here which is posted with the permission of MLex® US Tax Watch and attribution to MLex® US Tax Watch.
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