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Effective Jan. 1, 2013, individual taxpayers are liable for a 3.8 percent Net Investment Income Tax on the lesser of their net investment income, or the amount by which their modified adjusted gross income exceeds the statutory threshold amount based on their filing...

  Update February 2014 — For more detailed information about FBARs, please refer to Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). The IRS is aware that some taxpayers who are dual citizens of the United States and a foreign country may have failed to...

No exactamente el fin, pero casi. Así, la Reforma Fiscal que está preparando el Gobierno para este 2014 prevé que el sistema de estimación objetiva o módulos se limite a aquellos autónomos que vendan al consumidor final, lo que deja fuera a más de 300.000...

Totalization Agreements The United States has entered into agreements, called Totalization Agreements, with several nations for the purpose of avoiding double taxation of income with respect to social security taxes. These agreements must be taken into account when...

Summary of potential IRS Reporting requirements and civil penalties. The following summary of potential reporting requirements and civil penalties is not necessarily all encompassing, and it is unlikely that any one taxpayer would be subject to all of the reporting...

 Eight Smart Year-End Tax Moves While the April 15 income tax filing deadline is dubbed “Tax Day,” there is another very important deadline taxpayers need to keep in mind. Each year, the U.S. tax code changes, and many financial moves necessary to minimize your tax...

My funds in the US or in Spain? Were you with Merrill Lynch until last year? If you are finding difficulties with your investments as an American resident in Spain, because of the new FATCA regulations, or if you simply want to access a very efficient and low-cost US...

Asunto: Message for U.S. Citizens:U.S. Embassy Madrid Taxpayer and U.S. Citizen Assistance Day  Embassy of the United States of America Madrid, Spain Madrid Taxpayer and U.S. Citizen Assistance Day Wednesday, March 5, 2014 The U.S. Embassy will host a Taxpayer and...

Anyone moving to Spain or currently tax resident in the country needs to know that at the end of 2012 the Spanish Government launched a new initiative to ensure that it was no longer possible to hold assets offshore without disclosing their existence to the tax...

Are you a nonfiler? What can you do? We receive one or two phone calls per week from ordinary Americans living in Spain, telling us that they have not filed US taxes with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) since they arrived here. They are normal families, with work...

On January 2, 2013 President Barack Obama signed into law the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Passage of this Act averted the so-called “fiscal cliff” and made “permanent” changes to the tax code. As with all Congressional legislation, however, no change is...

The amount of financial information to be shared between EU countries will significantly increase over the next years. As part of its intensified fight against tax evasion, the European Commission has proposed extending the automatic exchange of information between EU...

FATCA – short for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – is a US law aimed at tackling offshore tax evasion. The law affects all US taxpayers, not just those living overseas. To comply with FATCA, all taxpayers holding accounts with foreign financial institutions...