Articles from American Citizens Abroad

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Citizens Abroad, Inc. (ACA) today announced that it has engaged BGR Group as its new advocacy firm for federal affairs. BGR Group will support ACA’s legislative efforts including the upcoming debate regarding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which is up for extension this year. Specifically, ACA will be advocating to end the onerous double taxation of Americans living abroad.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Citizens Abroad, Inc. (ACA) and American Citizens Abroad Global Foundation (ACAGF) are pleased to announce that Congressman Darin LaHood (R-IL) has been awarded ACA’s Benjamin Franklin Award.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Citizens Abroad (ACA) launched today a 100-day campaign aimed at enacting President-elect Trump’s pledge to end the onerous double taxation of U.S. citizens living and working overseas. This promise can be kept by reforming U.S. tax policy to adopt Residence-Based Taxation (RBT). Having previously demonstrated that adopting RBT is revenue neutral, ACA will work with its thousands of individual members and a broad, bi-partisan coalition of incoming Administration officials, Congressional representatives, legislative staff, tax experts, and economists to finally achieve this goal when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is brought up for renewal.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Citizens Abroad (ACA), a Washington, DC-based qualified 501(c)(4) non-profit, non-partisan, advocacy organization that represents the legislative and regulatory concerns of six million U.S. citizens living and working overseas to the U.S. Government, is pleased to see the U.S. House of Representatives vote in favor of the Social Security Fairness Act, HR. 82.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Citizens Abroad (ACA) has joined parties opposing actions which would narrow the ability of U.S. citizens living overseas to vote. In Pennsylvania, steps have been taken by state officials to make it easier for voters overseas to vote. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit would narrow voter registration rules as they apply to U.S. citizens living overseas.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Citizens Abroad (ACA), a non-profit, non-partisan association, welcomed former President Donald Trump's pledge to end the onerous double taxation of Americans living and working overseas if elected President.  ACA has been advocating for the adoption of residence-based taxation (RBT) which addresses this issue for over 20 years.  On Thursday, ACA also formally requested a pledge from Vice-President Kamala Harris to end this regressive tax on hard working Americans if elected to office. 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Citizens Abroad (ACA) Executive Director Marylouise Serrato was recently featured on The Tax Foundation's podcast, "The Deduction." The episode entitled "Do Americans Abroad Still Pay U.S. Taxes," Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) (taxfoundation.org), hosted by Kyle Hulehan and Dan Carvagal takes a deep dive into the current U.S. tax policy of citizenship-based taxation (CBT). The podcast highlights the problems related to the current tax policy and why a move to residence-based taxation (RBT) is the right tax policy for U.S. citizens living and working overseas. Residence-based taxation would tax U.S. citizens based on where their income is earned and not on the basis of their citizenship Taxation - American Citizens Abroad (americansabroad.org). 

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ACA launched its Residence-based taxation (RBT) lobbying campaign at the beginning of July and today officially registered as a lobbyist to move ahead utilizing its political action committee, ACA-PAC. ACA will lobby for RBT and related tax bills in both chambers of Congress.