Editor: this letter was received on 28 July, and needs YOUR action by Friday July 31 - by sending
an email (suggested text below) to your elected representatives - Senators and Congresspersons.
Dear Democrats Abroad,
We are at a pivotal milestone in our efforts to reform FATCA but we need our grassroots activists like you to ACT NOW.
Help us write 1000 letters to Congress by Friday to support the FATCA reform “sign on” letter!
As we reported earlier this month, Americans Abroad Caucus Co-Chairs Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) are circulating a “sign on” letter on
Capitol Hill pressuring Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and IRS
Commissioner John Koskinen to implement the FATCA Same Country Safe
Harbor for Americans abroad.
The letter should have hit the desk of your member of Congress.
Maybe they’ve seen it, maybe not – but the letter will be closed for new
signatures soon. Signatures of support from members of Congress are
needed now! Send a message to your elected representatives RIGHT NOW, reminding them about the letter and asking them to sign it.
It’s easy.
1) Click here and enter your U.S. voting address to compose a message to your elected representatives
2) Either copy and paste the suggested message
below or write your own polite and succinct message urging your member
of Congress to sign the letter in support of the Same Country Safe
Harbor that Representative Maloney and Representative Mulvaney are
circulating.
3) Let us know who you have contacted by filling out this very very short questionnaire HERE so that we can amplify your voice and continue to put pressure on Congress.
Thank you for participating in this important initiative in support
of our work to fix FATCA. If you’d like to further support FATCA reform
efforts, please make a contribution by clicking here.
Democrats Abroad FBAR/FATCA Task Force
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SUGGESTED MESSAGE ENCOURAGING ELECTED OFFICIALS TO SIGN THE
AMERICANS ABROAD CAUCUS LETTER TO TREASURY AND THE IRS IN SUPPORT OF THE
FATCA SAME COUNTRY SAFE HARBOR FOR AMERICANS ABROAD
SUBJECT: Congressional Sign On Letter supporting the FATCA Safe Harbor for Americans Abroad
I live in [country of residence] and I vote in [state] District [number if known].
Americans living outside of the United States like me are bearing
the unintended, but serious consequences of the Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act (FATCA). The law was, of course, intended to discourage
and apprehend US citizens hiding untaxed earnings in foreign financial
accounts. The reporting requirements FATCA imposes us and our banks were
never intended to impact ordinary, middle class, law-abiding Americans
abroad. However, due to FATCA our financial accounts are being closed,
our relationships with our non-American spouses are under strain, some
of us are being denied roles, promotions or partnership in business and
some are planning or contemplating renouncing their US citizenship. Some
have already done so.
We need help urgently.
The Democratic and Republican leaders of the Americans Abroad
Caucus, Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Representative Mick
Mulvaney (R-SC), have drafted a letter to the Treasury and IRS in
support of a reform to the FATCA implementation rules which would
resolve the problems that FATCA causes for 90 percent of Americans
abroad: the FATCA Same Country Safe Harbor for Americans abroad.
Representative Maloney and Representative Mulvaney are circulating
the letter on Capitol Hill. I strongly urge you to join your
Congressional colleagues in signing on to this letter in support of the
Same Country Safe Harbor. There are 8.7 million Americans living outside
the US. We vote, we file tax returns and we are calling on you to help
us by fixing this law that has so badly impacted our financial and
personal lives.
Please sign the Congressional letter to Secretary Lew and
Commissioner Koskinen in support of the FATCA Same Country Safe Harbor
for Americans abroad. Please contact Natalee Binkholder (Natalee.binkholder@mail.
Thank you for your help and thank you for serving.
Regards,
Name
City, Country
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