RO Territorial Taxation for Individuals Documents
- Territorial Tax Reform Proposal (Jan 6, 2017)
- Submission to House Ways and Means Committee (March 22, 2016)
- Republicans Overseas, Inc. Submission to Senate Finance Commitee
- Postcard on TTFI (Sep. 15, 2017)
- Addressing the unintended consequences of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act 2017 on Overseas Americans
- Treasury Grants Two Month Extension on Payment of First Installation of the Transition Tax (April 2, 2018)
- Draft letter for submission of comments to Congressional Hearings on Tax Reform (May 21, 2018)
- H.R. 7358 Tax Fairness For Americans Abroad Act of 2018 (Dec. 20, 2018)
Residence-Based Taxation
RO Press Releases & Statements
- 14 Feb 2023 – CEO of Republicans Overseas Supports Honduran Efforts to Maintain a Just, Independent Supreme Court
- 29 Sep 2021 – RO Decries Biden Plan to Spy on Americans’ Bank Accounts
- 20 Jan 2021 – RO Statement on Biden Inauguration
- 14 Jan 2021 – RO Statement on Impeachment
RO FATCA Lawsuit Documents
- D.-12-Appellants-BrJuly2016
- 42OrderDenyMotiontoAmendandGrantingDefs.MotiontoDismiss ROFATCAsuitDOJoppPI (August 12, 2015)
- ROA Motion for PI Reply Press Release final (August 26, 2015)
- Ten Detailed Points on ROA FATCA Lawsuit Final (July 14, 2015)
- Press Release January 26, 2014 Republicans’ “common sense” fightback against FATCA championed by global advisory giant
- PIReply-final (August 26, 2015)
- Motion for PI (with attached memo) (July 14, 2015)
- FATCA Lawsuit Press Release Final (July 14, 2015)
- D.38 Reply to Motion to Dismiss (January 14, 2016)
- D.37 Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (December 29, 2015)
- D.34 reply to opposition to amend complaint (December 7, 2015)
- D.32-1 motion for leave to file – attachment (am compl) (October 20, 2015)
- D.32 motion for leave to file amended complaint (October 20, 2015)
- D.30-PI order (September 29, 2015) D.21 Reply Br. (September 15, 2016)
- D.19 Appellees’ Brief (Appealed to 6th Circuit on August 29, 2016)
- D.13 – Reply for D.9 (1) (July 27, 2015)
- D.10 – Defs Response to Mot. to Expedite (D.9) (July 24, 2015)
- Complaint (July 14, 2015)
- Amended Complaint Press Release 110215 (October 20, 2015)
- A Summary Description of Each Plaintiff Final (July 14, 2015)
- 6th Circuit Court Upholds Lower District Court Ruling (Aug, 19, 2017)
- Press Release: RO Will Take FATCA Challenge to the Supreme Court (Aug. 21, 2017)
- Memo RE the 6th Circuit Court Decision (Aug. 22, 2017)
- Press Release: Plaintiffs in FATCA Challenge Seek En Banc Rehearing
- RO Petitions the Supreme Court (Dec. 21, 2017)
- Treasury Replies to RO Petition (Feb. 26, 2018)
- RO Replies to Treasury (Mar. 9, 2018)
- Supreme Court Declines to Hear FATCA Case (full court document, Apr. 2, 2018)
- Supreme Court Declines to Hear FATCA Case (relevant page only, Apr. 2, 2018)
Other FATCA Documents
- https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/sen-rand-paul-introduces-bill-repeal-anti-privacy-provisions-fatca (March 2015) Text of bill can be found here.
- Submission to House Ways and Means Committee (March 22, 2016)
- Republicans Overseas, Inc. Submission to Senate Finance Commitee
- Senator Paul introduces amendment to repeal FATCA (Nov. 30, 2017)
FATCA Hearings
Testimonies
Sen. Rand Paul
Donna Lane Nelson
Video: Donna Lane Nelson Testimony
Written: Donna Lane Nelson Testimony
Mark Crawford
Roger Johnson
Daniel Kuettel
Stephen John Kish
Marc Zell
James Bopp, Jr.
Responses on How to Reform FATCA
James Bopp, Jr.
Trump Administration Documents
Voter Statistics
According the State Dept., there are 9 million overseas Americans, not including overseas military service men and women (click here for Bureau of Consular Affairs overview).
614,553 (633,592 – 19.039) Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act ballots were returned in 2016, including 51,700 overseas U.S. military votes.
Military and Overseas Voting
- In 2016, 930,156 Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) ballots were transmitted and 68.1 percent — 633,592 UOCAVA ballots – were returned. Of the UOCAVA ballots returned by voters, 19,039, about 3 percent, were rejected. Of these rejected ballots, nearly half were rejected because they were not received by election offices on time.
- The number of ballots transmitted to overseas civilians increased by 23% from 2012 to 2016. Illinois, New Jersey and Washington are among the states that reported transmitting many more ballots to overseas civilians in 2016 than in 2012. Cumulatively, those three states accounted for an increase in about 40,000 ballots transmitted to overseas civilians.
The Military Postal Service Agency returned more than 51,700 voted ballots from military members to election offices (ballots are identifiable because of the kind of postage). The average military ballot return time was 5.1 days.
https://democracy.works/blog/
About 562,853 overseas Americans voted in 2016. Since 4.5 million overseas Americans are eligible to vote in 2018 and 2020, the potential to grow the overseas vote is huge.
Repatriation Tax Lawsuit vs. IRS
Other RO Documents
- October 2020- Polls & Numbers of the 2020 Presidential Election v2 by Benjamin Wolfmeier
- July 2020 – Polls & Numbers of the 2020 Presidential Election by Benjamin Wolfmeier
- September 2020 – Letter on EO for Overseas Americans