This is the tenth in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.The U.S. extraterritorial tax system violates multiple provisions of international human rights instruments that have been signed, or signed and ratified, by the United States. The rights in question...

There exist multiple rationales for the U.S. extraterritorial tax system. The rationales seek to explain why overseas Americans should be subject to worldwide taxation by the United States.This paper challenges those rationales: The allegiance rationale is outmoded and rejected by the U.S....

American emigrants face many consequences from the extraterritorial application of U.S. taxation and banking policies. Their names, addresses, and Social Security numbers are collected, placed on lists of “suspected U.S. persons,” and submitted to a “Crimes Enforcement Network.” They...

The U.S. extraterritorial tax system has evolved such that today it is more consequential than one century ago. The system, conceived in the stigmatization of overseas Americans, consists of highly penalizing taxation and banking policies that make it difficult for overseas Americans to live...

A recent IRS working paper on the wealth of U.S. persons held outside the United States confirms that overseas Americans are not "fat cats." Rather, they are ordinary people with ordinary income and wealth

This is the second in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S. extraterritorial tax system.This paper summarizes the findings of three recent surveys conducted to better understand how overseas Americans experience U.S. extraterritorial taxation.The three surveys discussed in this paper expose...

This is the third in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.This paper describes the efforts of many different organizations and individuals to change to the U.S. extraterritorial tax system, to lessen its burden on overseas Americans

This is the eighth in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.The U.S. extraterritorial tax system violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause in multiple ways. This eighth paper in the series examines two of those ways, demonstrating that the system is...

This is the seventh in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.The classification of “citizens” as it is contained in federal tax rules constitutes a suspect classification based upon country of origin (or nationality) and, as such, it is subject to strict...

This is the ninth in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.Over the course of the past century, both the U.S. extraterritorial tax system and U.S. citizenship have considerably expanded. The use of U.S. taxation and banking policies to target and punish the income,...