Breaking: Congressman Holding scrapes through with ‘Tax Fairness For Americans Abroad Act’

December 22, 2018

John Richardson (tax lawyer), Olivier Wagner (tax specialist), Solomon Yue (CEO & Founder Republicans Overseas), and Jim Gosart (Republicans Overseas) discuss Congressman Holding’s introduction of ‘Tax Fairness For Americans Abroad Act’.

by Helen Burggraf

With just hours to go before most of the United States was due to close down for the Christmas holiday, Congressman George Holding today at last delivered a long-anticipated bill aimed at addressing the enormous problems many Americans living abroad have been having that are a result, most agree, of the fact that they are taxed on the basis of their citizenship rather than jurisdiction of residence.

Among the central features of Holding’s bill is an option for American citizens who are living abroad to elect to be taxed on the basis of their residency, rather than their citizenship.

Read the full article here.

STAY CONNECTED!

First Name*
Last Name*
Email*
Sign up for email updates!*
- General Republicans Overseas Updates
- No email updates, please!
Country of residence?*
How can we help?
CAPTCHA
Email
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

WHO WE ARE

Republicans Overseas provides two-way infrastructure to keep Republicans abroad politically well-informed along with a mechanism to direct their policy concerns back to political leaders and Presidential candidates.

MISSION: To inspire the nine million Americans living overseas to engage more fully in the U.S. democratic political process through the provision of briefings, policy research and advocacy.

OUR VISION: Americans living and working overseas love their country and desire a strong and prosperous America respected throughout the world. Republicans Overseas keeps Americans living overseas politically well-informed and provides a mechanism to direct their policy concerns back to political leaders and Presidential candidates. The vision of Republicans Overseas is to represent the unique concerns of Americans living overseas, to elect federal candidates addressing those concerns, and to effectively influence policy.