U.S. taxpayers living and working abroad must file their 2022 tax returns by June 15. This deadline applies to both U.S. citizens and resident aliens abroad, including those with dual citizenship. A taxpayer qualifies for the June 15 filing deadline if: (1) Both their tax home and abode are outside…

Terry Savage and I are collecting Social Security horror stories and posting them at my substack site, larrykotlikoff.substack.com. Sign up for free and take a read. If you have a story, send it to [email protected]. I copy below a story we just received. I thought I’d heard it all. But…

I prompted Bing’s ChatGPT to write blog posts on “trader tax benefits” and “trader tax status.” See my comments in yellow highlight. I also used Grammarly. ChatGPT did a good job, but gave rudimentary advice. There are nuances in our content that ChatGPT missed. GreenTraderTax and my Forbes articles are…

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden reached an agreement over the weekend to limit spending for a small fraction of the federal government for a couple of years. But it would not come close to materially reducing annual deficits or slowing the growth of the national debt,…

Former IRS Commissioner David Kautter, now with RSM, discusses the recently released report on the feasibility of an IRS-run direct file program. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. David D. Stewart: Welcome to the podcast. I’m David Stewart, editor in chief of Tax Notes Today International. This…

As the debt limit drama plays out, Americans might be wondering if there is a better way to prevent defaulting on U.S. debts and perhaps inducing a global recession or depression. President Joe Biden, along with many commentators, has speculated that a president can bypass Congress by using the 14th…

Lance Wallach is an expert on abusive tax transactions – in a good way. He warns people about them and then helps the ones who didn’t hear his warnings or did not take the warnings seriously enough. A couple of weeks ago he called me to encourage me to write…

In April the International Monetary Fund released a working paper explaining how tax authorities can better leverage anti-money-laundering (AML) measures to improve tax compliance and boost domestic revenue mobilization. The idea is not new, but it’s been a challenging concept for tax authorities to execute. Why? Well, tax crimes and…