The 2019 deadline for U.S. citizens living abroad to file their taxes is Monday June 17 (as the usual international tax filing deadline of June 15 falls on a Saturday this year).
In order to draw attention to International Tax Filing Day Democrats Abroad is hosting a Congressional CallStorm. We invite U.S. citizens who support expat tax reform to participate in this campaign on Thursday June 13 (neither Friday June 14th nor Monday June 17th are House and Senate sitting days) and call their members of Congress asking for relief.
Everything you need to participate in the CallStorm is in this guide for campaign participants.
Date for calls: Thursday June 13, 2019
Date for written and electronic messages: Through the month of June
Who to contact: your two Senators and your member of the House of Representatives. If you don't know who they are advice for finding them and their contact details are in the guide.
What to say: scripts for calls and sample language for emails, letters and postcards are in the guide. If you can add your personal story about why expat tax reform is important to you that would be even better. Specifically, we are asking for -
- A switch from our current system of citizenship based taxation to residency based taxation, in which we’d still be required to report US-based income to the IRS, but not the income we make in and pay tax on abroad
the Overseas Americans Financial Access Act, which would exempt us from disclosures of the financial accounts we hold in our countries of residence which we use to pay bills and save for the future
Further details on our tax advocacy ideals, strategy and asks are in the guide.
Thanks in advance for your support. As noted in the guide, our work with the House tax writing subcommittee is making serious progress, but we need to build support for expat tax reform right across Congress. To do that we need all who are seeking relief from the burden of complying with two tax jurisdictions to call your elected representatives and ask for it.
Please send questions or comments to [email protected].
Democrats Abroad Taxation Task Force