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Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act

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The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a 2010 United States federal law requiring all non-U.S. ('foreign') financial institutions (FFIs) to search their records for customers with indicia of 'U.S.-person' status, such as a U.S. place of birth, and to report the assets and identities of such persons to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. [1]

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Accidental American

An accidental American is a citizen of a country other than the United States who may also be considered a U.S. citizen or eligible for U.S. citizenship under U.S. nationality law but is not aware of having such status, or has only become aware of it recently during adulthood.

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Allison Christians

Allison Christians is a tax law scholar and the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law at the McGill University Faculty of Law/Faculté de Droit in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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American Brazilians

An American Brazilian (américo-brasileiro, norte-americano-brasileiro, estadunidense-brasileiro) is a Brazilian person who is fully, partially or predominantly of American descent, or a US-born immigrant in Brazil.

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American Citizens Abroad

American Citizens Abroad (ACA) is, as it provides in public media, a "non-profit, non-partisan, volunteer association whose mission is to defend the rights of Americans living outside the United States border." It was founded in 1978.

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American diaspora

The American diaspora or overseas Americans refers to the population of United States citizens who relocate, temporarily or permanently, to foreign countries.

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American immigration to Mexico

American Mexicans (estadounidense-mexicanos) are Mexican citizens who are either born in, or descended from migrants from the United States and its territories.

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Americans in North Korea

Americans in North Korea consist mainly of defectors and prisoners of war during the Korean War as well as their locally born descendants.

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Americans in the Philippines

American settlement in the Philippines (or Americo–Filipino) began during the Spanish period, when Americans came to the islands primarily to conduct business.

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Americans in the United Kingdom

Americans in the United Kingdom or American Britons includes emigrants from the United States who gain British citizenship, people from the United States who are or have become residents or citizens of the United Kingdom.

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Australian Americans

Australian Americans are Americans who have Australian ancestry.

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Émigré

An émigré is a person who has emigrated, often with a connotation of political or social self-exile.

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Banking in Australia

Banking in Australia is dominated by four major banks: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, and National Australia Bank.

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Banking in Switzerland

Banking in Switzerland began in the early 18th century through Switzerland's merchant trade and has, over the centuries, grown into a complex, regulated, and international industry.

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Bill Bonner (author)

Bill Bonner is an American author of books and articles on economic and financial subjects.

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CARP (Canada)

CARP, formerly the Canadian Association of Retired Persons, is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates on behalf of adults 45 and over.

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Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is an autonomous British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea.

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Certificate of Loss of Nationality

The Certificate of Loss of Nationality of the United States (CLN) is form DS-4083 of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the United States Department of State which is completed by a consular official of the United States documenting relinquishment of United States nationality.

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Common Reporting Standard

The Common Reporting Standard (CRS) is an information standard for the automatic exchange of tax and financial information on a global level, which the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) developed in 2014.

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Emigration from the United States

Emigration from the United States is the process where individuals born in the United States move to live in other countries.

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European Union withholding tax

The so-called European Union withholding tax is a withholding tax which is deducted from interest earned by European Union residents on their investments made in another member state, by the state in which the investment is held.

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Extraterritorial jurisdiction

Extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) is the legal ability of a government to exercise authority beyond its normal boundaries.

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FACTA

Facta may refer to.

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Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (abbreviated FACT Act or FACTA) is a United States federal law, passed by the United States Congress on November 22, 2003, and signed by President George W. Bush on December 4, 2003, as an amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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FATCA agreement between Canada and the United States

The FATCA agreement is an international agreement signed between Canada and the United States that allows the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (an Act of the U.S. Congress) in Canada.

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Federal Act on Banks and Savings Banks

The Federal Act on Banks and Savings Banks is a Swiss federal law and act-of-parliament that operates as the supreme law governing banking in Switzerland.

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Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes

The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, founded in 2000 and restructured in September 2009, consists of OECD countries and other jurisdictions that agreed to implement tax related transparency and information exchange.

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Global RADAR

Global RADAR is a financial software company known for its anti-money laundering software.

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Guyana

Guyana (pronounced or), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a sovereign state on the northern mainland of South America.

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Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act

The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act of 2010 is a law in the 111th United States Congress to provide payroll tax breaks and incentives for businesses to hire unemployed workers.

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Income tax in the United States

Income taxes in the United States are imposed by the federal, most state, and many local governments.

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Information governance

Information governance, or IG, is the management of information at an organization.

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International tax planning

International tax planning also known as international tax structures or expanded worldwide planning (EWP), is an element of international taxation created to implement directives from several tax authorities following the 2008 worldwide recession.

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International taxation

International taxation is the study or determination of tax on a person or business subject to the tax laws of different countries or the international aspects of an individual country's tax laws as the case may be.

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James Bopp

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Kevin M. Downing

Kevin M. Downing is an American attorney.

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List of agencies affected by the United States federal government shutdown of 2013

The following is a list of government agencies and operations affected by the United States federal government shutdown of 2013.

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List of Australian treaties

This is a list of treaties that the Government of Australia has entered into since federation in 1901.

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Main Street Fairness Act

The Main Street Fairness Act (H.R. 5660) was a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives to "promote simplification and fairness in the administration and collection of sales and use taxes, and for other purposes." Specifically, the Main Street Fairness Act would have allowed state governments to require out-of-state retailers to collect and remit sales tax on purchases shipped to residents of those states.

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Max Baucus

Max Sieben Baucus (born Enke; December 11, 1941) is a retired American politician and diplomat who served as a United States Senator from Montana from 1978 to 2014.

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Multiple citizenship

Multiple citizenship, dual citizenship, multiple nationality or dual nationality, is a person's citizenship status, in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen of more than one state under the laws of those states.

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Offshore bank

An offshore bank is a bank regulated under international banking license (often called offshore license), which usually prohibits the bank from establishing any business activities in the jurisdiction of establishment.

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Offshore fund

An offshore fund is a term which generally refers to a collective investment scheme domiciled in an offshore jurisdiction.

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Panama as a tax haven

The Republic of Panama is one of the oldest and best-known tax havens in the Caribbean, as well as one of the most established in the region.

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Panama Papers

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities.

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Philippines–United States relations

Philippines – United States relations (Filipino: Ugnayang Pilipinas – Estados Unidos) are bilateral relations between the United States of America and its former colony, the Republic of the Philippines.

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Qualified intermediary

A Qualified Intermediary refers to a person that acts as an intermediary qualified under certain sections of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to undertake specified activities.

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Reactions to the Panama Papers

This article lists some of the reactions and responses from countries and other official bodies regarding the leak of legal documents related to offshore tax havens from the law firm Mossack Fonseca, called the Panama Papers.

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Relinquishment of United States nationality

Relinquishment of United States nationality is the process under federal law by which a U.S. citizen or national voluntarily and intentionally gives up that status and becomes an alien with respect to the United States.

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Renunciation of citizenship

Renunciation is the voluntary act of relinquishing one's citizenship or nationality.

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Republicans Overseas

Republicans Overseas (RO) is a political organization, created in 2013, for Americans who are living outside the United States.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis, also known as the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, is an island country in the West Indies.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia (Sainte-Lucie) is a sovereign island country in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean.

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Savings Directive

The European Union Savings Directive (EUSD), formally Council Directive 2003/48/EC of 3 June 2003 on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments, is a directive of the European Union enacted to implement the European Union withholding tax, requiring member states to provide other member states with information on interest paid to achieve effective taxation of the payments in the member state where the taxpayer is resident for tax purposes.

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Scotiabank

The Bank of Nova Scotia (La Banque de Nouvelle-Écosse), operating as Scotiabank (Banque Scotia), is a Canadian multinational bank.

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Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act

The Tariff Act of 1930 (codified at), commonly known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and was signed into law on June 17, 1930.

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Special Counsel investigation (2017–present)

The 2017–present Special Counsel investigation is an ongoing United States law enforcement investigation of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and any Russian (or other foreign) interference in the election, including exploring any possible links or coordination between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government, "and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation." The scope of the investigation reportedly also includes potential obstruction of justice by President Trump and others.

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Switzerland–United States relations

Switzerland–United States relations are bilateral relations between Switzerland and the United States.

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Tax evasion in the United States

Under the federal law of the United States of America, tax evasion or tax fraud, is the purposeful illegal attempt of a taxpayer to evade assessment or payment of a tax imposed by Federal law.

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Tax haven

A tax haven is defined as a jurisdiction with very low "effective" rates of taxation ("headline" rates may be higher).

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The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens is a 2015 book by 28-year-old University of California, Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman, which popularized the concept of both the tax haven and corporate tax haven.

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United States as a tax haven

In 2010, the United States implemented the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act; the law required financial firms around the world to report accounts held by US citizens to the Internal Revenue Service.

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2013 in Costa Rica

Events in the year 2013 in Costa Rica.

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2015 FIFA corruption case

In 2015, U.S. federal prosecutors disclosed cases of corruption by officials and associates connected with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance_Act

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