Re:Americans Renouncing Citizenship at Record High
by ArchD on Saturday February 11, 2017 @01:46AM
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FATCA is a mess. For example, some non-US (e.g. Hong Kong) bank will assume you are a US person (and presumably share your account info with the IRS) if you opened the account with a US phone number unless you prove that you are not a US person by doing some troublesome paperwork. (So what if you have a US number? It could be a Google Voice or Twilio number.)
The onus should be on the IRS to prove to the bank that the account holder is a US person, not the other way round. They want the money but they won't do their share of the due diligence.
The onus should be on the IRS to prove to the bank that the account holder is a US person, not the other way round. They want the money but they won't do their share of the due diligence.