Congressman Holding scrapes through with Tax Fairness for Americans Abroad Act #821

John Richardson (tax lawyer), Olivier Wagner (tax specialist), Solomon Yue (CEO & Founder Republicans Overseas), and Jim Gosart (Republicans Overseas) discuss Congressman Holding’s introduction of ‘Tax Fairness For Americans Abroad Act’. 

by Helen Burggraf

With just hours to go before most of the United States was due to close down for the Christmas holiday, Congressman George Holding today at last delivered a long-anticipated bill aimed at addressing the enormous problems many Americans living abroad have been having that are a result, most agree, of the fact that they are taxed on the basis of their citizenship rather than jurisdiction of residence.

Among the central features of Holding’s bill is an option for American citizens who are living abroad to elect to be taxed on the basis of their residency, rather than their citizenship.