May 19, 2003 --

(adopted by the DPCA Executive Committee on Monday May 19, 2003)

WHEREAS seven million citizens of the United States live and work abroad,

WHEREAS the United States is the only major democracy in the world to tax its overseas citizens on their foreign earned income,

WHEREAS international tax treaties and the foreign tax credit
provisions of the Internal Revenue Code do not adequately protect
overseas working families from the unfair burden of double taxation by
their countries of residence and the United States,

WHEREAS repealing Section 911 of the Internal Revenue Code will unduly burden the many millions of American families living abroad,

WHEREAS repealing Section 911 is a disguised tax increase on working families abroad,

WHEREAS in the past the Internal Revenue Service has itself
concluded that the cost of collecting taxes on the foreign earned
income of Americans abroad would exceed the amounts actually collected,

WHEREAS while increasing tax on working families abroad the
tax bill adopted bythe Republican controlled Senate with the
tie-breaking vote of VP Dick Cheney provides a massive tax decrease for
the wealthiest Americans,

WHEREAS Democrats Abroad has continually supported the extension of Section 911 rather than its repeal,

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, THAT Democrats Abroad deplores
the position on Section 911 adopted by the Senate championed by Senator
Grassley and pushed through by the Senate Republican leadership,

THAT Democrats Abroad calls on the House and the Senate to maintain Section 911 of the Internal Revenue Code as currently in effect,

THAT Democrats Abroad calls on all Americans living overseas
to contact their Representatives and Senators and the President and
Vice President to express the in support for Section 911.

WARNING: Since the measure to eliminate Section 911 has been
included in the budget bill passed by the Senate, which now goes to
conference committee, NOW OR NEVER is the time to phone, fax or email
your representatives in Congress! For the information you need see how to contact your representative.

FOR MORE INFORMATION contact Democrats Abroad International Vice Chair, John McCreery: vice-chair@democratsabroad.org

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