Today’s guest post is written by Grayson Dufrene, CLU, ChFC, TEP, Managing Director at Vie International for the last 10 years. Grayson has over 20 years’ experience working with international clients on their cross-border and wealth planning needs. Private Placement Life Insurance Products PPLI and PPVA are US compliant insurance products available to “qualified purchasers” […]

The IRS recently announced they sent at least 362,000 names to the State Department to deny or revoke the US passport for those US Citizens who have not paid their taxes. The Internal Revenue Code allows the IRS to certify the tax debt of delinquent US taxpayer to the State Department. Following such notification, the State […]

US Taxpayers who have an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) should check to see if their numbers will be expiring at the end of the year.  More than 2 million ITINs are set to expire at the end of 2018. If your ITIN has not been used on a US tax return at least once […]

So, you feel lucky that you are not an American citizen, with the tax headaches that a citizenship-based system bestows upon the not so lucky US expatriate. Not so fast. Even though you are not an American, you may not be safe from Uncle Sam’s long tax arms. Below are five instances where he could still […]

The US Supreme Court has delivered its verdict in the case of South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc et al this week, in a move which could drastically change the nature of online retail in the United States. The ruling, which overturned the 1992 decision of Quill Corp v. North Dakota, has substantially freed state and […]

HMRC MOVE UK LANDLORDS ONTO THE CASH BASIS FOR TAX REPORTING Effective for the 2017/18 UK tax year, UK tax-paying landlords, whose rental receipts do not exceed £150,000 per UK tax year, will move onto the cash basis for UK tax returns. The switch is designed to make the reporting of rental income simpler and […]

Further to our announcement that the IRS will be shutting down the Overseas Voluntary Disclosure Program, we outline below some of the penalties taxpayers may face after the September OVDP closure date: A penalty for failing to file a tax return – The penalty is 5 percent of the balance due, plus an additional 5 […]