Re:Americans abroad are giving up their citizenship as banks...
by walshemj on Thursday September 25, 2014 @04:33PM
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And it imposes a large cost on non us citizens who have to pay for our uk institutions ro meet the cost of US regs out of our fees the Daly telegraph estimated that the cost of FACTA to uk investors with absolutely no connection with the USA was 1/2 a billion pounds.
So when do I get my vote for president :-)
The end result of that will be that the global financial system is going to be bifurcated into "compliant" and "non-compliant" institutions. Believe me, most banks/insurance companies/financial entities will find it worth their while to eventually become compliant.
The reason that more countries aren't complaining about this (and most are actually entering into bilateral enforcement agreements with the U.S. Treasury department) is that they'll then be able to get access to the same sorts of information on their own citizens that the U.S. is getting on their own as a result of FATCA.